RADIUS – Centrum voor Hedendaagse Kunst en Ecologie

The group exhibition DISMANTLE THE ANTHROPOCENE serves as the public conversation starter for RADIUS’ 2026 year-programme YOU AND I ARE EARTH. The exhibition departs from the assertion that we are living in a new geological epoch: the Anthropocene. In this new era, human activity has irreversibly transformed the composition of the atmosphere, the oceans, and even the surface of the Earth. Humans have thus, allegedly, become a force on a geological scale, to such a degree of impact that we now constitute a full-fledged geological force capable of altering the sum of planetary processes.

Alongside the overarching title BEYOND POLITICAL LIMITS, the 2025 year-programme at RADIUS focuses on developing new language templates informed by the convergence of art and science. Through a program revolving around observation, fieldwork, reflection and imagination, RADIUS aims to offer a counterpoint to the language of status-quo politics, currently failing to create a shared desire to collectively confront and mitigate climate change. Whether we are talking about the nitrogen crisis, the protection of the Wadden Sea against oil drilling, floods in Limburg, or earthquakes in Groningen, the political reality seems extremely malleable while the boundaries of our ecosystems are fixed. Against this capricious background, RADIUS presents BEYOND POLITICAL LIMITS, a year-programme on the political representation and advocacy of the more-than-human, and the ongoing need for collective political resistance within a highly polarised political climate. By means of four exhibitions and a public and educational programme, we aim to present the work of visual artists to imagine the ways by which humans and non-humans alike can emancipate and organise themselves politically beyond the current political status quo. Within this programme, we thus focus on restoring relations between humans and non-humans, zoom in on the emancipation and representation of the more-than-human.