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April 11, 2026

Grund

Five works about what's shifting beneath us. Art for a time when foundations crumble.

What holds when the ground itself begins to move?

In Hungary, a democracy wavers — a hundred thousand people in the streets against Orbán, a new candidate who was once part of the system himself. In Islamabad, diplomats grope through negotiations no one knows will hold. In Ukraine, an Easter ceasefire begins — fragile, temporary, a breath between gunfire.

In German, "Grund" means two things: the ground we stand on, and the reason we seek. Both seem uncertain today. Energy prices rise, coalitions quarrel, cyclones approach, and even cryptocurrencies — those supposedly unshakeable blockchains — could be destabilized by AI.

These five artists show what it means to stand on uncertain ground. Not as lament, but as inventory. Sometimes you have to lose the ground to understand what truly holds.

Fundament by Anna Malina
Democracy

Hungary Votes — and the Foundation Trembles

Peter Magyar was once part of Orbán's system. Now he might topple him. Over 100,000 people gathered at a concert against the government. Anna Malina's "Fundament" — a collage of transfers, manipulation, and digital noise — shows how unstable what we consider solid really is. Democracy isn't a structure. It's a process that must be layered anew, again and again.

Fundament

by Anna Malina

"Digital collage, gel plate laser image transfer, paper collage, scanner manipulation..."

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A person getting up from the floor by Ilya Bliznets
Resistance

Getting Up, Again and Again

Hungary's opposition was down for a long time. Fragmented, demoralized, seemingly hopeless. Now they're rising — literally, by the hundreds of thousands. Ilya Bliznets captures this moment in all its vulnerability: the body lifting itself from the floor. Not yet upright, but no longer lying down. The hardest part of getting up is the beginning.

A person getting up from the floor

by Ilya Bliznets

"AI, digital painting and dithering collage"

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No Such Thing As a Fresh Start by Sky Goodman
Ceasefire

Easter Ceasefire — And Then?

A ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine has been in effect since this afternoon. Just hours before: more attacks, more deaths. 175 prisoners were exchanged. Sky Goodman's title says it all: "No Such Thing As a Fresh Start" — there is no clean new beginning. Only a slipping into other days, carrying everything with us.

No Such Thing As a Fresh Start

by Sky Goodman

"Mini series called 'Slipping into Other Days'"

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Signal Lost by Strano
Diplomacy

Many Question Marks in Islamabad

Behind closed doors, the US and Iran negotiate. Expectations are low. "If no one walks out, that would already be a success," observers say. Strano's "Signal Lost" asks: Where did you go? I'm still here. Sometimes the worst thing isn't the argument, but the silence that follows.

Signal Lost

by Strano

"Where did you go? I'm still here."

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There by iineslobo
Nature's Force

Cyclone "Vaianu" — The Waves Don't Wait

Thousands of people in New Zealand must leave their homes. Cyclone "Vaianu" approaches, and no one asks if we're ready. iineslobo's photograph captures this truth: "The waves keep arriving. The light keeps turning. And nothing waits for anyone to be ready." Nature doesn't negotiate. It simply comes.

There

by iineslobo

"The waves keep arriving. The light keeps turning. And nothing waits for anyone to be ready."

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What Remains When the Ground Shifts

Perhaps this is the real lesson of these days: The ground we thought we stood on was never as solid as we believed. Democracies must be defended. Ceasefires are pauses, not endings. Negotiations can fail. Storms come.

But in this uncertainty lies something else: the possibility to build anew. Those who rise after falling know something about stability that those still standing never learn.

These five works don't show solutions. They show the moment before — the wavering, the searching, the rising. And sometimes that's exactly the ground we need.

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