kinship II marks the second group exhibition at KIN, following its founding and inaugural program three years ago. Bringing together emerging and established artistic positions, the exhibition presents a vibrant selection of works. Much is set in motion here: unexpected correspondences, subtle frictions, and a field of relations unfolding across the space.
The exhibition builds on the gallery’s founding principle: kinship. Not as a fixed category, but as a mutable,
lived structure. In its most immediate sense, kinship names the relations that bind a community or a family. It is the invisible architecture through which proximity, obligation, care, and identification are organised through blood, choice, or circumstance. Yet under contemporary conditions, kinship exceeds inherited structures. It emerges in elective affinities, in contingent collaborations, and in forms of solidarity that take shape across everyday difference.
kinship II does not propose a thematic exhibition in the conventional sense. Instead, it foregrounds connection as a productive force, articulated through a shared yet heterogeneous visual language. Across painting, sculpture, installation, and moving image, the works probe how relations are formed, negotiated, and experienced through gestures of intimacy, systems of exchange, and imaginaries of togetherness.
The gallery exhibition unfolds through a range of formal approaches. Motifs appear across sites of familiarity; urban spatial registers are reconfigured as zones of circulation or encounter. In this way, connection is not only the subject here, but also the method: it shapes how the works are made, presented, and received.
In 2026, these questions resonate within an increas- ingly complex socio-political landscape. Yet rather
than centering rupture alone, the exhibition insists on generative potential: on the capacity of artistic practices to produce, sustain, and transform relations. Artists create spaces of encounter, cultivate dialogue, and develop modes of collaboration that exceed established framework, contributing to a cultural fabric in which empathy, curiosity, and shared experience remain operative forces.
kinship II can be understood as both continuation and an expansion. It is, ultimately, a proposition: an open constellation that invites collectors, audiences, and participants alike to trace connections, form their own associations, and become part of the network it sets in motion.
Jef Declercq, Micaela Dixon and Nicolaus Schafhausen 2026
Artists: Abbas Akhavan, Danai Anesiadou, Michael Beutler, Manon de Boer, Andrea Büttner, Yvo Cho, Magdalena Frauenberg, Mekhitar Garabedian, Eva Giolo, Zuza Golińska, Liam Gillick, Dorota Jurczak, Aglaia Konrad, Natasja Mabesoone, Sam Marshall Lockyer, Suzanne Lafont, Barbara & Michael Leisgen, Marcin Maciejowski, Hana Miletić, Shaun Motsi, Christa Näher, Michelle Rawlings, Fabrice Schneider, Leander Schönweger, Andrzej Steinbach, Michael Van den Abeele, Dan Vogt, Angharad Williams, Jan Wolski, Anna Zacharoff, Philip A. Zimmermann, Thomas Zipp.
