The QMA Artist Collective 2024 presents Fragmented Worlds – Common Grounds, an exhibition that explores the dynamic potential of artistic collaboration in a hyper-globalized world marked by fragmentation and crisis. Seventeen artists were paired by the curators and prompted to engage with the challenge of creating across time, space, and varied artistic languages in a process over 10 months.

At the heart of this exhibition lies the potential of collaboration – a spark that turns disconnection into creation. The artists delve into humanity’s fragile ties to nature, layered histories and archeologies of self/ves or the intricate interplay between technology and ecology, offering us a nuanced perspective on basal topics such as belonging, separation and communication through their works. What may initially seem fractured or disparate transforms, as separate voices harmonize into the polyphony of a cohesive whole, inviting us to uncover connections within complexity.

In Fragmented Worlds – Common Grounds, collaboration becomes a lens through which to see the strength and resilience born from embracing our interconnected yet distinct perspectives.

Curators: Laura Põld, Justina Špeirokaitė, Julischka Stengele, Ale Zapata

Artists: Rosa Andraschek, Dominykas Cinauskas, Collective Bande (Hannah Parth & Elisa Schober), Laia Fabre, Miao Fangping, Sunggu Hong, Eszter Katalin, Marlene Lahmer, Michaela Nagyidaiová, Tahereh Nourani, Chaerin Park, sissi petutschnig, Jelisaveta Rapaić, Kia Sciarrone, Céline Struger, Francisco Valença Vaz