Part 2: Fragile Terrains
May 22 – 31, 2026
This second part of the festival exhibition focuses on Fragile Terrains. The artists invite us to turn our attention towards material instability, undetectable environmental processes, and more-than-human systems in unpredictable flux. Fragility is highlighted as a micro-force: distributed and subtle, yet capable of producing large-scale effects over time.
Across microbial systems, conductive stones, thixotropic materials, and melting ice, Fragile Terrains approaches fragility as something that is spread across many interacting processes rather than located in a single point or object. Instead of being a fixed condition, vulnerability emerges through these relations. Over time, slow and often barely visible changes begin to alter how we perceive and relate to what is happening around us.
Implicit in these processes are often the questions: What is the impact of human action, control, and humanity’s ultimate inability to truly grasp the nature of these territories? And what new stories, rituals and care might emerge as a result of a different way of thinking about matter?
Selection of works
The work De glace et d'eau by Robin Koek & Jean-Emmanuel Rosnet can only be viewed from 28 to 31 May, subject to a time-slot ticket. Time-slots can be booked via the link down below.
Thixocymatics (2026), Aldo Brinkhoff
Ce que la pierre retient du vivant (What the stone holds of the living) (2026), Anaïs Lossouarn
Garden of Mnemonics (2026), Sunjoo Lee
De glace et d'eau (2026), Robin Koek & Jean-Emmanuel Rosnet
Visits to this second part of the festival exhibition is based on the “pay what you can” principle at the location
Opening times:
Tue – Sun, 12:00 – 17:00, de Brakke Grond
➤ Opening: 22/5, 19:00 - 22:00
Festival weekend:
Thu 28/5: 10:00 – 22:00
Fri 29/5: 10:00 – 20:00
Sat 30/5: 10:00 – 20:00
Sun 31/5: 10:00 – 20:00
Thixocymatics (2026), Aldo Brinkhoff
De glace et d'eau (2026),Robin Koek & Jean-Emmanuel Rosnet
Installations
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Thixocymatics (2025), Aldo Brinkhoff
22 May–31 May | de Brakke Grond
Exhibition: Fragile TerrainsThixocymatics is a kinetic sculpture that explores the fragile threshold between order and collapse, developed through a collaboration between an artist and a scientist. Using tools from the world of construction, specifically concrete formwork, the artist created an instrument that carefully manipulates a block of thixotropic calcium. Rather than producing stable patterns, the material resists predictability. It slowly shifts, continuously reshaping itself into an evolving, unstable landscape.
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Ce que la pierre retient du vivant (2026), Anaïs Lossouarn
22 May–31 May | de Brakke Grond
Exhibition: Fragile TerrainsIn this tactical and sound installation, Anaïs activates the surface of stones through touch, producing sound by stroking their edges in a gesture reminiscent of playing a crystal glass. These subtle resonances are captured and transmitted through headphones. Suspended stone fragments are connected to a system that replays recorded heartbeats of individuals who were listening to the same stone. Visitors are invited to hold the hanging stones and listen through headphones, sensing the faint, invisible rhythms of others.
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De glace et d’eau (2026), Robin Koek & Jean-Emmanuel Rosnet
28 May–31 May | de Brakke Grond
Exhibition: Fragile TerrainsDe glace et d'eau is an augmented sound fiction tracing the slow disappearance of a glacier through a lifetime of listening. A powerful text by Fanny Taillandier forms the narrative spine: the voice of a woman who has spent her life recording the glacier's creaks, silences, and subtle metamorphoses. Visitors move through the space wearing headphones, the three-dimensional soundscape responding to the body. Field recordings made in situ are spatialised into layered acoustic cartographies that shift as you move, drawing the listener into a form of attentive presence that lingers between wonder and unease. To listen is to trace our own fleeting passage within something far older than memory.
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Garden of Mnemonics (2026), Sunjoo Lee
22 May–31 May | de Brakke Grond
Exhibition: Fragile TerrainsGarden of Mnemonics is a living installation where memory, sound, and energy emerge from microbial processes. Small computers “chirp” using electricity generated by bacteria in mud-filled ceramic vessels, activating only at intervals as the system metabolises. Developed through collective workshops, the work traces an entanglement of ecosystems and technologies, imagining forms of energy production attuned to the rhythms of the Earth and shaped by both human and more-than-human collaboration.