Initiated by artist Lawil Karama in conversation with historian Megan Hoetger, The Nature of Remembering is a group exhibition featuring multimedia research projects that move between interrogation of normative memory politics and co-experimentation with environmental and more-than-human bodies.

The exhibition title carries in it two meanings: on the one hand, nature is evoked, drawing focus to actants, actors, and animacies beyond and beside the human, who witness, participate in, index, recollect, foretell, and haunt historical time. On the other hand, the idiomatic expression the nature of is taken up as a provocation, pushing against pervasive ideological and violently enforced notions of remembering and of commemorating that assume there to be essential characteristics of either.

Running through all projects is a commitment to practices of frictioning: engaging technologies against their colonial grain, and lingering in the affectively, ancestrally, archivally, and forensically intertwined conditions of lived experience and knowledge production. Collectively, the works ask: Who, or what, enframes and enlivens acts of remembering violence, which have been rendered invisible, unspeakable, and unthinkable?

Full lineup to be announced.

This exhibition is generously supported by Amsterdam Fund for the Arts, Mondriaan Fund, and Prince Claus Fund, with the support of the Amsterdam City Council.

Image: Lawil Karama, Algorithm of Colour: Reflection Series – Sky 14:00 EAT, February 10, 1973 Mbale, Uganda (2026), KunstRAI X Rietveld Alumni 2026: paralelepípedo, photography by Lucia Del Valle Ramirez.