ART DUBAI 2026 | DUBAI, 14.05.26 – 17.05.26

ART DUBAI 2026 | DUBAI, 14.05.26 – 17.05.26

Pinksummer partakes in Art Dubai’s special edition with a digital artwork by Tomás Saraceno.

Tomás Saraceno, Poetic Cosmos of the Breath, 2013. Installation view at Art Dubai Special Edition, United Arab Emirates, 2026. Courtesy of the artist and Pinksummer. Photo © Faiz Khan.

Poetic Cosmos of the Breath

 

Inspired by the work of Dominic Michaelis, an English architect and inventor who came up with the technology for a solar-powered hot air balloon, Poetic Cosmos of the Breath is a time-based, experimental, solar dome that takes flight only under certain climatic conditions. It uses deceptively simple materials: a paper-thin foil accompanied by a few sandbags, and a handful of participants to produce a startlingly ethereal, shimmering effect. Staged at dawn, as temperature conditions naturally shift, air inside the balloon is heated by a greenhouse effect and the lightweight material slowly lifts off the ground completely unaided by machines or electrical power. At the same time, sunlight cast through the material creates a vibrant rainbow-tinged iridescent glow. Firstly commissioned by The Arts Catalyst in 2007 as a performative action at Gunpowder Park in Essex, the installation was later presented in 2013 at “Mobile M+: Inflation!”, Hong Kong as a temporary event occurring periodically during the show.

Art Dubai 2026 | Special Edition

Madinat Jumeirah

14.05.26 (Preview)

15.05.26 – 17.05.26 (Public days)

Pinksummer's stand at ARCO Madrid 2026.

ARCO MADRID 2026 | MADRID, 03.04.26 – 03.08.26

ARCO MADRID 2026 | MADRID, 03.04.26 – 03.08.26

Pinksummer will be participating to the 45th edition of ARCO Madrid with works by Mark Dion, Peter Fend, Koo Jeong A and Tomás Saraceno.

Pinksummer's stand at ARCO Madrid 2026.
Pinksummer at ARCO Madrid 2026, installation view. Courtesy of the artists and Pinksummer. Photo © CHOREO – Lars-Ole Bastar & Roman Häbler

Artistic Activism for an Interdependent Planet

 

In a world facing unprecedented ecological collapse, art must not only reflect — it must activate. This project brings together four visionary artists whose practices, though distinct, converge in a shared commitment to artistic activism. Each work on view constitutes a call to rethink our entanglement with the Earth, advocating for new forms of perception, responsibility, and planetary care.

Peter Fend transforms cartography into resistance. With Global Desert, he appropriates the visual codes of energy corporations to unveil the devastating realities of fossil fuel dependency. His maps and proposals are not metaphors, but real strategies — ecological blueprints that redraw territory along hydrological and biopolitical lines. His work exposes the contradictions of extractive capitalism while offering actionable alternatives grounded in planetary ethics.

Tomás Saraceno invites us into radical cohabitation with nonhuman worlds. His collaborative works with spiders — intricate web sculptures — and his iridescent, air-borne and foam-based installations propose a shift in consciousness. They ask: what would it mean to inhabit the air, the web, the void — not as dominators, but as guests? Saraceno’s practice merges science, architecture, and imagination, constructing utopias of interspecies solidarity and post-fossil futures.

Koo Jeong A’s SS(Seven Stars) series traces a lyrical, metaphysical path through ecology, astronomy, and perception. Her works imagine a reality in which trees, stars, and viewers are bound by invisible lines of light, time, and mutual care. Engaging with the forgotten dimension of night — now obscured by light pollution — her glowing canvases restore the dark as a space of vision and reflection. Her practice, deeply anti-speciesist, recovers the intelligence of plants and the silent wisdom of planetary rhythms.

Mark Dion turns his attention to the fragile ecosystems of marine life. Known for his practice of assembling pseudo-scientific displays that mimic the aesthetics of natural history museums, Dion draws viewers into an inquiry that is both ecological and political. By cataloguing species, artifacts, and remnants of human impact, he highlights what is at stake in our oceans: not only the loss of biodiversity, but the erosion of cultural and environmental memory. Through this work, Dion underscores how
coastal and underwater environments are frontline witnesses of the climate crisis, reminding us that preservation is not nostalgia, but resistance: a commitment to defending the plurality of life forms against the homogenizing forces of extraction and urbanization.

Together, these four artists articulate a politics of ecological urgency — one that rejects spectacle and embraces knowledge, care, and intervention. This is not an exhibition of environmental themes; it is a constellation of artworks-as-agents, tracing new imaginaries of coexistence, resistance, and transformation.

ARCO Madrid 2026

Pavillion 9, Booth 9D10

03.04.26 – 03.05.26 (Preview)

03.05.26 – 03.08.26 (Public days)

Books Tomás Saraceno

Tomás Saraceno
Spiders in motion, rainy commotion
Year: 2023
Pages: 120
Language: English
Ivorypress

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Tomás Saraceno
Tomás Saraceno – ARIA
Publisher: Marsilo
Year: 2020
Pages: 200
ISBN/ EAN: 9788829703630

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TOMAS SARACENO: THE AEROCENE PROJECT
Year: 2017
Editor: Skira
Introduction of: Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Eva Horn, Timothy Morton
ISBN: 885723473

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Tomás Saraceno: Arachnid Orchestra. Jam Sessions
Audio Publication
Published by NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore
Editors: Ute Meta Bauer and Anca Rujoiu
Contributors: Bani Haykal, Joyce Beetuan Koh, Brian O’Reilly, Brian Massumi, Elizabeth A. Povinelli, David Rothenberg, Studio Tomás Saraceno, Etienne Turpin, Evan Ziporyn, and arachnids
Copy-editor: Dan Koh
Book design: The Press Room
Printer: Kin Yiap Press
© 2017 by NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore
Release in July 2017
ISBN 978-981-11-3047-2

Tomás Saraceno
Aerosolar Journeys
2017
Editors Museum Haus Konstruktiv / Wilhelm-Hack-Museum
Publisher Walther König
Language German / English

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Tomás Saraceno, Ciento sesenta y tres mil años luz
Year 2016
MARCO, MUSEO DE ARTE CONTEMPORÁNEO DE MONTERREY
ISBN 978-607-9355-10-4

Tomas Saraceno. Becoming Aerosolar
Agnes Husslein-Arco, Mario Codognato
2015
21er Haus, Belvedere, Vienna

Cosmic Jive: Tomas Saraceno The Spider Sessions
Ilaria Bonacossa, Luca Cerizza, William Eberhard, Gianni Garrera, Joseph Grima, Federico Nicolao, Federico Rahola, David Toop
2014
Asinello Press, Genova

Tomás Saraceno: Cloud Specific
Meredith Malone, Igor Marjanovic, Inés Katzenstein, Tomás Saraceno, Denis Weaire
2014
edited by by Meredith Malone and Igor Marjanovic
ISBN 9780936316352

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Cloud Cities Tomás Saraceno
Thomas Bayrle, Bruno Latour, Katharina Schlüter and Moritz Wesseler as well as a conversation between Tomás Saraceno, Marion Ackermann, Daniel Birnbaum, Udo Kittelmann, and Hans Ulrich Obrist.
2011
Distanz
ISBN 978-3-942405-37-9

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14 Bilions (Working Title),
Sara Arrhenius, Helena Granström, Nikolaus Hirsch and Jeffrey Kastner and an interview with Tomás Saraceno by Hans-Ulrich Obrist
2011
Skira
ISBN 885720857

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Sketchbook
Tomas Saraceno
2009
druckcoop karlsruhe