FLUX: Female Digital Creativity — Industrial Biennial Selection

“Where to look when the­re is appa­ren­tly not­hing to look at? When mac­hi­nes and sen­sors do the job of seeing and under­stan­ding ins­te­ad of you? How can you ori­ent your­self when you only get blur­red sha­dows of what indus­tri­ali­sa­ti­on is real­ly set­ting in moti­on? How do you recla­im agen­cy and rede­fi­ne jus­ti­ce? In this ter­ra­in crum­bling bene­ath our feet, we are requ­es­ted to ima­gi­ne the unimaginable.”
Bani Brusaddin and Giulia Colletti, from the con­cept of the 5th Industrial Art Biennial, The Vast Automaton. 

22 – 30 1 2026

Following on from the September-October 2025 exhi­bi­ti­on FLUX – Female Digital Creativity, Labin Art Express XXI and Gallery Novo join for­ces aga­in to pre­sent a com­pa­ni­on exhi­bi­ti­on. While the first exhi­bi­ti­on pre­sen­ted the wor­ks of artis­ts who took part in the Blockchain Art Academy as part of the FLUX pro­ject, this one pre­sent­swork from a selec­ti­on of the fema­le pro­fe­ssi­onal artis­ts who par­ti­ci­pa­ted in the 5th Industrial Art Biennial in October – November 2025. Entitled The Vast Automaton, the bien­ni­al raised pro­fo­und ques­ti­ons abo­ut con­tem­po­rary digi­tal for­ms of indus­try and explo­ita­ti­on. The exhi­bi­ti­on pre­sents a rare chan­ce to see the work of con­tem­po­rary inter­na­ti­onal artis­ts in Pula. Visitors to the show will enco­un­ter a wide ran­ge of tho­ug­h­t­ful and inno­va­ti­ve work in the inti­ma­te con­text of Gallery Novo.

For this exhi­bi­ti­on, the bien­ni­al artis­ts were invi­ted by the cura­tors to sub­mit digi­tal wor­ks in any for­mat that would illu­mi­na­te the the­mes of FLUX and the bien­ni­al. The selec­ti­on pre­sents a seri­es of sket­c­hes, out­ta­kes, and paral­lel wor­ks. Some deri­ve direc­tly from the wor­ks shown at the bien­ni­al, whi­le others are quite dif­fe­rent to what was shown the­re. Some are glim­p­ses of work in pro­gress that reve­al the artist’s tec­h­niqu­es or cre­ati­ve pro­ce­sses, and others pre­sent unexpec­ted new visi­ons. The artis­ts were empowe­red to pre­sent wha­te­ver work they felt would work best in digi­tal for­mats. In the­ir vari­ous ways, they “explo­re the oppor­tu­ni­ti­es of this emer­ging lan­d­s­ca­pe” as the cura­tors put it in the­ir bien­ni­al con­cept. The com­mon thre­ad betwe­en the­se wor­ks and the first FLUX exhi­bi­ti­on is the insig­ht that they pro­vi­de into con­tem­po­rary fema­le digi­tal cre­ati­vity, and the wide ran­ge of for­ms this can take. FLUX and the bien­ni­al offe­red fema­le artis­ts a chan­ce to “unle­ash alter­na­ti­ve ima­gi­na­ti­ons”, for­ging “an inven­tory of ter­ms and artis­tic prac­ti­ces”, as the cura­tors put it.

Labin Art Express XXI

k: Bani Brusadin & Giulia Colletti in the context of the project FLUX – Female Digital Creativity and the 5th Industrial Art Biennial (“The Vast Automaton”). 

The pro­ject FLUX — Female Digital Creativity, co-finan­ced by the European Commission, is a joint ini­ti­ati­ve of the orga­ni­sa­ti­ons Labin Art Express XXI (HR), Alice in Blockchains (HR), the Museum of Transitional Arts MOTA (SI) and the MEET Digital Culture Center (IT). The goal of the pro­ject was to deve­lop, pre­sent and pro­mo­te fema­le digi­tal cre­ati­vity and enco­ura­ge gre­ater enga­ge­ment of fema­le artis­ts in the field of new tec­h­no­lo­gi­es, espe­ci­al­ly bloc­k­c­ha­in and NFT. FLUX empowe­red fema­le artis­ts, enco­ura­ging the deve­lop­ment of the­ir pro­fe­ssi­onal and cri­ti­cal dis­co­ur­se in con­tem­po­rary digi­tal for­ms. Through a pro­gram­me of wor­k­shops, artis­tic cre­ati­on, con­fe­ren­ces and exhi­bi­ti­ons, the pro­ject dealt with the pro­blem of gen­der equ­ality in the NFT and digi­tal art wor­l­ds. It cul­mi­na­ted in the two FLUX held exhi­bi­ti­ons in late 2025 — ear­ly 2026 as part of the 5th Biennial of Industrial Art in Istria, plus exhi­bi­ti­ons at MOTA in Ljubljana and MEET in Milan.