Belmacz presents Marcel Broodthaers and Agnieszka Kurant, an exhibition bringing historical works by Marcel Broodthaers into dialogue with the speculative experimentation of contemporary artist Agnieszka Kurant. On view in London, the presentation places Kurant’s recent sculptures alongside archival works conceived by Broodthaers for Décor: a conquest by Marcel Broodthaers, his 1975 exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA). Bringing together two generations of conceptual practice, the exhibition explores shared concerns around systems of power, political structures and the mechanisms through which value is produced.

Broodthaers, who began his career as a poet before becoming one of the most influential figures in conceptual art, developed a practice that questioned the institutions and conventions of the art world. His investigations into the relationships between art, economics, history and representation find a contemporary counterpart in Kurant’s work. Through sculpture and research-based projects, Kurant examines the political economy of digital capitalism, artificial intelligence, automation and modern warfare, considering how invisible systems of control shape contemporary society.

The exhibition brings these practices together through a selection of works addressing fiction, power and conflict. Among Kurant’s pieces are Maps of phantom islands (2011), which traces the political and economic consequences of imaginary territories; Unmanned (2026), a levitating sculpture of an autonomous missile; and Unthoughtforms (2026), a series of sculptures generated through processes involving artificial intelligence. Other works, including Liquid modernity (2021) and Speculations (2016), explore the circulation of materials, monuments and artworks as instruments of political and financial exchange. By connecting Broodthaers’s historical critique with Kurant’s examination of contemporary technological and economic systems, the exhibition opens a conversation about the changing forms of power and the fictions that sustain them.