ArtWorks Together 2026 has begun!

ArtWorks Together International Festival has begun!

My video work “You Get...uoY teG” is shown in this exhibition.

-ArtWorks Together 2026-
celebrating artists with learning disabilities and/or autism
24 Jan – 31 May 2026
The Millennium Gallery
Arundel Gate, Sheffield, UK.
Opening Times
Tue–Sat 10am–5pm | Sun 11am–4pm | Closed Mondays including Bank Holidays

ArtWorks Together is an international festival and exhibition, offering adult artists who have a learning disability, are autistic or both, a platform to showcase their work on an international stage. ArtWorks Together is established by ArtWorks South Yorkshire which is a non-profit creative arts organisation.

https://www.facebook.com/artworkstogetherexhibition/-

 

ecoSYNTH² – Living Interfaces.

“Circadian Silence” is an audiovisual work created in collaboration with French scientist and visual artist Natalie Launay (Escaldes-Engordany, Andorra) during my project Empty Times – Empty Spaces at Faber Andorra in October 2025. The video will be presented at :

ecoSYNTH² – Living Interfaces.

Fri. 30/01/2026 / 15:00 – 00.00

Sat. 31/01 – 01/02/2026

top e.V., Industriestr. 40, 12099 Berlin (Tempelhof), Germany

The three film and video programs will be shown on Friday, January 30, 2026. Our work will be presented and screened as part of Program II, “Ecologies of Attention,” from 17:30 to 21:00 h.

ecoSYNTH² focuses on living interfaces, multispecies alchemy, biohacking, and more-than-human ecological synthesis—where digital media meets living systems, and art becomes a tool for sensing, resistance, and transformation. We aim to incubate anti-capitalist futures, host critical conversations, and create space for practices operating between code, culture, and biology.

"Circadian Silence" invites to listen to the invisible rhythm that unfolds within every living being — a time that breathes inside our cells, beyond clocks, measures, and productivity. The work is composed from genetic sequence of the CLOCK gene, one of the master regulators of circadian rhythm — the molecular clock that governs the alternation of day and night, wakefulness and rest. Here, silence is inhabited by traces of the biological world: a heartbeat, a breath, a voice, frag- ments of the body’s own memory. The piece unfolds as a continuous respiration of sound and pause, code and body — a meditation on the invisible cycles that sustain life.

Curator: Xristina Sarli poster artwork by @yeltakom.

https://vorspiel.berlin/events/ecosynth²-living-interfaces

 

L A T I T U D E S International Performance Art Festival

My video performance "the plant" will presented at:

L A T I T U D E S

International Performance Art Festival of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia

The performance festival takes place from 27/01/2026 to 31/01/2026 at various hosting culture institutions in the city of Santa Cruz de La Sierra. These include Centro de la Cultura Plurinacional (CCP) and Museo de la Ciudad Altillo Beni (MABI) and Alliance Française Santa Cruz (AFSCZ) as supporting institution

Calendar & events

● Tuesday, January 27: Opening of the festival, 7 PM, CCP.

● Wednesday, Jan. 28 - Friday, Jan. 30: Live & Video Performances, conferences,     workshops, talks, CCP.

● Saturday, January 31: Closing of the festival, 7 PM, Museo Altillo Beni, MABI.

Thank you to the curator Hector Canonge

“the plant”

In the work presented, a person acts on a fixed stage with a table, chair, flower pot, and glass of water. Following a strict choreography, the person reflects the concept of dignity in relation to time, stillness, the power of solitude and living in carefully executed movements. It points to the facts that every living being and every object has a dignity and its time . Also has the work a philosophical approach in the context of time and dignity. Partly influenced by Buddhist, Zen and Japanese MA thoughts, but at the same time contains autobiographical elements. It reflects the subject of time in a philosophical context 

 

POSTCARDS FROM THE EDGE

POSTCARDS FROM THE EDGE

My contribution this time “Chains & Masks” / a motif from the “Two” portfolio

Postcards from the Edge – Benefice for Visual AIDS

January 23 - January 25, 2026

Berry Campbell Gallery 524 West 26th Street New York, NY 10001, USA

Founded in 1988. VISUAL AIDS is the only organization fully committed to raising Aids awareness and creating dialogue around HIV issues today, by producing and presenting since 1998 the annual visual art project -Postcards from the Edge-

http://postcards.visualaids.org./ 

 

“THE GARDENS OF LIFE – SILENT SEEDS.”

Two my video works, “Ornaments of Empty Times in Autumn” and “nothing will stay as it was,” will be presented in the 2026 winter exhibition

“THE GARDENS OF LIFE – SILENT SEEDS.”

17–30 January 2026

Open daily from 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m

POSK Gallery

238–246 King Street (Hammersmith)

London W6 0RF, UK

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Curator: Jola Mroszczyk

The exhibition invites works that reflect on stillness, dormancy, and waiting, but also on hope, resilience and unseen growth.Artists are encouraged to interpret this theme broadly – from the delicate poetics of nature’s cycles, through personal or collective experiences of pause and transformation, to metaphors of silence and survival.

 

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Website 

I've redesigned and updated my main website, giving it a slightly different layout. It now has a new structure and sections.

https://www.johannesgerard.com/

# Traveling exhibition “6th. International Ex Libris Competition Varna”

The first stop in 2026 for the traveling exhibition 

“6th International Ex Libris Competition Varna”

08/01/ - 09/02/2026

Municipal Art Gallery "Petar Persengiev",

4 Tsar Osvoboditel Str., Novi Pazar, Bulgaria

This exhibition features three of my ex libris works.