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KunstRAI 2026
RAI Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands | 22-26 April 2026 | Booth 44
At KunstRAI 2026, K:art Studio presents Cold Age Fever, a curatorial presentation examining the re-emergence of “cold” structural aesthetics within contemporary artistic practice.
The project traces a shift from instrumentality to interiorisation, exploring how historical forms of power — armour, symbol and monument — migrate from external structures into psychological and perceptual space. Rather than approaching the weapon as an object, Cold Age Fever considers its afterlife as form: as contour, discipline and inherited tension embedded within the body and within systems of perception.
In a time increasingly shaped by frictionless technologies and distributed authority, the presentation proposes “coldness” not as nostalgia or violence, but as a resistance to seamlessness — a renewed attention to edge, structure and embodied awareness.
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Dafu Yan
Megumi Ohata
Nadia Da Silva

Andrea Samory
Scarlett Budden

Yixiong Zhang

Yixin Liang
Jinseul Park

Yucen Liu
Selected works: 1. Yixiong Zhang, The Elephant in the Room, 2026, oil on canvas mounted on wood panel. 2. Yixiong Zhang, Successor, 2022, oil on panel. 3. Yixin Liang, Soap Dispenser, 2025, acrylic on canvas. 4. Andrea Samory, Signal 1.1 - Deposition, 2023, mixed media. 5. Andrea Samory, Infection 1.9, 2023, mixed media. 6. Dafu Yan, Domestication, 2024, installation. 7. Megumi Ohata, Inner Child, 2020, mixed media. 8. Scarlett Budden, The Burrow, 2025, oil on canvas. 9. Scarlett Budden, Sleeping Feet, 2025, oil on panel. 10. Scarlett Budden, Lies we seek, 2024, oil on canvas. 11. Megumi Ohata, Silent Scream, 2022, mixed media. 12. Nadia Da Silva, Purity, 2026, oil on canvas. 13. Jinseul Park, Silent Outcry, 2024, Korean paint on hanji.

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