During Antwerp Art Weekend, Goda Palekaitė and Darly Benneker come together in the monastery garden of Kunsthal Extra City and MORPHO for a conversation on how contemporary artistic and curatorial practices engage with institutions, histories and systems of knowledge. The discussion connects the exhibitions Lapsarian 3.0 (Kunsthal Extra City) and Walls, Soft as Listening (MORPHO), and explores how fiction, storytelling, speculation and site-responsive practices can open up new ways of understanding the world.

Through different artistic strategies, both artists imagine alternative realities and perspectives. In Lapsarian 3.0, Palekaitė engages AI as a tool to create distance and estrangement, allowing other narratives and possible worlds to emerge. In Walls, Soft as Listening, Darly works through the physical qualities of materials and natural agents such as the rubber tree, weaving together memory, fiction and history. While their approaches differ, both artists respond closely to specific places – from the Catacombs of Rome to the botanical gardens of Medellín – revealing layered stories about identity, ecology and belonging.

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Free admission
Location: Monastery garden of Kunsthal Extra City & MORPHO
The conversation is conducted in English

© Image: Brent Mertens