KunstRAI 2026
RAI Amsterdam, Amsterdam | 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
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Andrea Samory
Scarlett Budden
Lijing Zheng
Yixin Liang
Jinseul Park
Yucen Liu
Selected works: 1. Lindsy Macadie, Sometimes, She Wears Sparkles (2), 2024, photography. 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, Silent Scream, 2022, 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. Yanni Xiong, Mermaid Chronicles: Lunar Tide, 2025, oil on canvas. 12. Nadia Da Silva, Purity, 2026, oil on canvas. 13. Jinseul Park, Silent Outcry, 2024, Korean paint on hanji.


















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