Conceptual artist Agnieszka Kurant (°1978, Łódź, Poland) lives and works in New York. During the 'Errorism' exhibition, she presents a collection of works shown in recent years at the Guggenheim Museum (New York), Castello di Rivoli (Turin) and Centre Pompidou (Paris).

Errorism focuses on the creative and destructive role of errors. The presence of error is crucial to both evolutionary processes and human creativity. Many scientific discoveries considered to be the result of rational progress were in fact accidental. The goal of risk management, a neoliberal endeavor, is to prevent errors. What will happen to creativity once artificial intelligence eliminates our mistakes and we stop erring? How will we acquire new knowledge or create culture? By asking questions about the value of error, Agnieszka Kurant continues to reflect on the ways in which societies evolve.

Kurant asks questions about the relationship between an individual and collective intelligence. The term refers to the process of collective decision-making as well as novel forms that emerge from interactions among thousands or millions of humans, animals, molecules, or bacteria. This phenomenon occurs on the internet, in the world of insects, and between neurons in the human brain. It demonstrates that the whole is more than the sum of its component parts.

The works on display are the result of constantly occurring processes and the collective work of entire societies: created geological structures, termite mounds, images borrowed from scientific simulations or generated with the help of algorithms. They all question the idea of individual authorship and of a stable, finite form.

Errorism presents various stages of emergence, growth, and decomposition of forms that reflect and comment on the ways societies evolve.

This exhibition is made possible with the the kid support of Kunstverein Hannover & The Polish Institute Brussels