Starting from the premise that the state of cities increasingly determines the future of states, City States presents thirteen exhibitions developed in relation to the theme of hospitality.

More than half of the world population lives in cities and people continue to be drawn to urban life. This migration gives rise to a double allegiance: to the city we live and work in, and the place of our nationality, birth, culture or ancestry. In cities different cultures of hospitality often co-exist in the same place. The exchange of knowledge and experience between cities increasingly constitutes a new urban geopolitics that is both particular to each city and globally linked.

City States gives form to this idea with an architecture that is specific to the thirteen exhibitions and integrated in the open plan space of this post-postal industry building. Each exhibition is distinct, yet all are connected in offering an understanding of hospitality for our times.

City States: Project List

Birmingham: Birmingham The Magic City
BAZ
Helen Brown
Home of Metal
Napalm Death
plan b
David Rowan
Bedwyr Williams

Copenhagen: Approaching Journey
Yvette Brackman
Ismar Cirkinagic
Jens Haaning
Jane Jin Kaisen

Gdańsk: Unwanted Visitors
Yael Bartana
Oskar Hansen
Alicja Karska & Aleksandra Went
Slawomir Lipnicki
Janek Simon
Kama Sokolnicka

Hong Kong: All Are Guests
Chow Chun-fai
LEUNG Mee-ping
CoLAB × SLOW

Incheon: Terra Galaxia
Sen Chung
Kyungah Ham
Seoung Won Won
Will Bolton
Sukgeun Oh
Yoon Suknam

Lisbon: Air Print
Miguel Palma

Makhachkala: Topography of Masculinity
Taus Makhacheva

Oslo: Palestinian Embassy
Goksoyr & Martens

Reykjavik, Nuuk, Tórshavn: North Atlantic Pavilion
Hanni Bjartalíð
Sigurður Guðjónsson
Jessie Kleemann

St. Petersburg: Interior
Masha Godovannaya

Taipei: Metro-Wonderland: Taiwanese Artists and Urban Morphology
CHEN Chia-Jen
CHIU Chen-Hung
HSU Chia-Wei

Vilnius: Black Pillow
Audrius Bučas & Valdas Ozarinskas

Wellington: Watermarking
David Bennewith
William Hsu
Marnie Slater