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Manifesta purposely strives to keep its distance from what are often seen as the dominant centres of artistic production, instead seeking fresh and fertile terrain for the mapping of a new cultural topography.

Manifesta 16 Ruhr, upcoming
– , Germany
Manifesta 15 Barcelona Metropolitana
– , Spain
Manifesta 14 Prishtina
– , Kosovo
Manifesta 13 Marseille
– , France
Manifesta 12 Palermo
– , Italy
Manifesta 11 Zurich
– , Switzerland
Manifesta 10 St. Petersburg
– , Russian Federation
Manifesta 9 Genk
– , Belgium
Manifesta 8 Murcia – Cartagena
– , Spain
Manifesta 7 South Tyrol – Trentino
– , Italy
Manifesta 6 Nicosia, Cancelled
Cyprus
Manifesta 5 Donostia-San Sebastian
– , Spain
Manifesta 4 Frankfurt/Main
– , Germany
Manifesta 3 Ljubljana
– , Slovenia
Manifesta 2 Luxembourg
– , Luxembourg
Manifesta 1 Rotterdam
– , Netherlands
Participant

Olafur Eliasson, IS

Olafur Eliasson, Show me, by means of sudden intuitive realization, your perception of the presence, 1996. Photo © Manifesta 1 / Jannes Linders.

Working with architect Einar Thorsteinn, the Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson produced a ready-made dome made of white pentagonal and hexagonal fibreglass panels, originally designed for the exploitation of geothermal energy in Iceland. Inside the dome a fountain pumping jets of water was rhythmically lit by a stroboscope from the former German Democratic Republic, so that the bursts of water appeared to freeze in ever-changing formations.