transit

18 april - 9 august, 2026

The exhibition On The Inside is proud to present Transit, an exhibition that reflects on the systemic transformation of industry in the face of climate transition, addressing the relationship between climate, industry, and prosperity.

The exhibition has been developed in close collaboration with Utrecht University and marks the conclusion of a five year interdisciplinary research programme on climate change, carried out jointly by sustainability researchers and the Faculty of Law. The research, led by Professor Gert Jan Kramer, approaches climate transition not only as an ecological necessity, but also as a legal, political, and ethical question: who bears responsibility, who carries the burden, who benefits?

Rather than illustrating research outcomes, the exhibition brings contemporary art into dialogue with this body of research, creating a critical and dialectical encounter between academic inquiry and artistic practice. The works engage with questions of temporality, extraction, simulation, responsibility, and uneven global impact, allowing artistic perspectives to complicate, challenge, or enhance the research positions.

Positioned at the intersection of art and science, the exhibition considers industrial transformation as a structural and political process that requires new forms of coordination and responsibility. Through film, photographic installations, and spatial compositions, Transit frames industrial renewal as a collective undertaking. Rather than offering didactic conclusions, the exhibition invites reflection on the infrastructures, institutions, and imaginaries that shape the pace and direction of climate transition.

Transit brings together international artists working across film, photography, installation, and large scale wall compositions, including Heike Baranowsky, Matt Calderwood, Reynold Reynolds & Patrick Jolley, Martti Kalliala & Daniel Keller, and Thiago Rocha Pitta, together with a spatial photographic installation by Natascha Libbert developed for the exhibition.

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