Loving MTRiarchy
Loving MTRiarchy is a living, polyphonic gathering of diploma and non-diploma works that refuses the logic of singular authorship, proposing instead the exhibition itself as a collective organism: porous, recursive, and radically open to contradiction.
Annual exhibition of the MA Transdisciplinary Studies in the Arts
12 to 26 June 2026, daily 12-8 pm
Toni-Areal, room 7.F03
Exhibition
Spanning video installations, printed matter, performative interventions, spatial sculptures, sound works, running horses and collaborative publications, the exhibition does not curate disciplines, it rather dissolves their borders. It is a stage for encounters between methodologies that rarely share a wall, a stage, or a page.
Drawing on the double resonance of the title—the institutional acronym MTR (MA Transdisciplinarity) folded into the word matriarchy—the exhibition asks what it would mean to organize knowledge, space, and creative labor around principles of care, horizontality, and mutual sustenance rather than competition and hierarchy.
Both diploma and non-diploma projects are presented without rank or hierarchy, because here the threshold between “finished” and “in-process” is itself a site of inquiry—a methodological choice that mirrors the transdisciplinary conviction that knowledge is always partial, always becoming, always entangled with the bodies and communities that produce it. The works gathered do not illustrate a thesis but inhabit a question: how do we create together across differences—across media, disciplines, across unequal positions within institutions that were never designed for all of us?
Loving MTR iarchy is, last and not least, a love letter composed by many hands and a playful Cheers to collaboration as a form of resistance, to the MTR program as a growing and genuinely collective project, and to the stubborn, generative belief that the most rigorous thinking happens not alone, but in relation.
