Opening: Tue, 02.09.2025, 7pm

Duration: Wed, 03.09. – Sat, 08.11.2025

Curators: Tjaša Pogačar & Frederike Sperling

Artists: Evelina Hägglund, Femke Herregraven, Miriam Kongstad, and more 

Communicate quickly and effectively – that’s a central imperative of our time. In an economy where a split second can make the difference between profit and loss, communication too must adhere to the principle of efficiency. Information needs to get from A to B – just in time. If you can’t cut to the chase quickly and clearly, you lose. Not for nothing do we get embarrassed or panic when we feel like we’re stumbling over our own message – stuttering, stammering, floundering, at a loss for words. The involuntary pause reminds us that our abilities to adapt and function, to streamline ourselves into the cycle of communication, production, and consumption, are limited. But doesn’t this experience also harbor critical potential?

The group exhibition On a tongue’s tip, at a world’s lip is an invitation to consider moments of speechlessness and illegibility not as disruptions but rather opportunities: the figure of the interruption serves as a metaphor for forms of expression that defy the social imperative of efficiency and eloquence. What other words – and worlds – lie hidden in the gaps in our communication? What forms of connection can we find in situations of speechlessness?

Tjaša Pogačar is an independent curator based in Ljubljana and Prague. She served as a guest curator at Kunsthalle Bratislava (2022–2023) and as a curator for visual and new media art at Projekt Atol Institute (2021–2024). She curated the 34th Ljubljana Biennale, ZONE1 at viennacontemporary, two editions of IFCA Maribor, and exhibitions at SUMO Prague, Škuc, Aksioma, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Ljubljana. A co-founder and editor-in-chief of Šum journal for art and theory-fiction, she is pursuing a PhD at AVU in Prague with a focus on exhibition-making as a collective world(build)ing practice.