A monstrous era of industrialisation is unfolding around and through us. It is beyond human comprehension, hyper-granular but opaque, ubiquitous and always somewhere else. It is multi-scalar, as its processes and bodies are capable of mobilising and intersecting multiple layers of human and non-human lives, from the nano to the planetary scale, from the molecular to the geopolitical, fostering novel interconnections and frictions, when not overt conflicts.

Published on the occasion of the 5th Industrial Art Biennial, 𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝘆 𝗕𝗮𝗻𝗶 𝗕𝗿𝘂𝘀𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻 and 𝗚𝗶𝘂𝗹𝗶𝗮 𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗶, held across Labin, Raša, Pula and Vodnjan from 24 October to 30 November 2025, this catalogue brings together the work of 36 artists and continues the biennial’s investigation into industrialisation as a material force and cultural engine — from extraction and logistics to data streams, automated feedback loops, infrastructures, intelligence and agency.

What is the industry, when industrialization runs through data streams and convoluted decision-making processes? Where to look when there is apparently nothing to look at? When machines and sensors do the job of seeing and understanding instead of you? How can you orient yourself when you only get blurred shadows of what industrialisation is really setting in motion? How do you reclaim agency and redefine justice?

In this terrain crumbling beneath our feet, we are requested to imagine the unimaginable.

𝗙𝗲𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘁𝘀: Heba Y. Amin | Andrej Beštak, Anja Leko | Živa Božičnik Rebec | Maks Bricelj, Ema Maznik Antić | Alice Bucknell | Kate Crawford, Vladan Joler | Sophie Cundale | Aleksandra Domanović | Sandro Đukić | Anna Engelhardt, Mark Cinkevich | 업채 eobchae | Daniel Felstead, Jenn Leung | 김아영 Ayoung KIM | Laibach Kunst | Lawrence Lek | 刘窗 Chuang LIU | Abu Bakarr Mansaray | !Mediengruppe Bitnik, Selena Savić, Gordan Savičić | 오세린 Serin OH | Gerard Ortín Castellví | 박민하 Minha PARK | Rich Pell | Tanit Plana | Cemile Sahin | Nestor Siré | Suzanne Treister | Marina Xenofontos | Dragan Živadinov, Dunja Zupančič