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There Is Nothing Solid About Solidarity is shaped as a forum — a coming-together of multiple perspectives, methods and critical approaches, forms of expression, geographies and historical backgrounds, and acts as a catalyst for forging new alliances and avenues for empathy. Taking place at M HKA between 24 and 26 October 2025, it incorporates a discursive programme, video screenings, a series of texts commissioned for MOST Magazine, and an exhibition in M HKA’s INBOX. Conceived as a spatial essay, the INBOX exhibition includes works that—through their content and the circumstances of their making—presenting, rather than asking, the key questions at stake. They bring forward artists’ voices engaged with solidarity and empathy under the pressures of violence, fear, digital antagonism and tribalism, and who face the challenges of building affinities across divergent contexts. The exhibition is a prologue, and perhaps more importantly, a call for participation: an invitation to join, reflect and respond. The exhibition opens with Ayman Ramadan’s The Situation Is Fluid, where a clichéd phrase—used by the White House’s official response to the 25 January 2011 revolution in Egypt—is hand-painted on a bilingual signboard that mimics municipal signage. The work exposes the vacuity of diplomatic language while acknowledging its power to circulate and occupy space, and despite being produced in 2012, has not yet lost its relevance. The voice resonating throughout the exhibition room belongs to Svitlana Matviyenko and Malaka Shwaikh, who—during a conversation held at the Institute for Human Sciences—interrogated the limits of the now-pervasive discourse of “resilience”—a term that can conceal structural violence—while showing how imperial subjects may become implicated in sustaining colonial regimes. In their talk, solidarity is articulated not as sentiment but as method: an active, internationalist practice against colonial domination embedded in wider architectures of power. Read further here.

Ewa Borysiewicz, Yulia Krivich, Vera Zalutskaya and Katie Zazenski