Josh Kline & Simon Denny
The Art Room 12
Soho House Rome
May 12, 2026
The Art Room #12 by CURA. for Soho House Rome presents Current Affairs. A Conversation between Josh Kline and Simon Denny.
The art room is a program of talks and video screenings conceived and curated by CURA.
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Artists Josh Kline and Simon Denny met in 2013. Both were included in Susanne Pfeffer’s landmark group exhibition “Speculations on Anonymous Materials” in Kassel that year. Both Kline and Denny were at the forefront of a wave of artists in the early 2010s who began making work involving bleeding-edge technology and the architecture and design of twenty-first century capitalism. In their work, the two artists—Kline in New York City and Denny in Berlin—focused on technology’s relationship to the politics and economics of our time. In Rome, they will appear in conversation together for the first time. Their discussion will range widely across the topics shared in their work, discussion art made in response to disinformation, deepfakes, information security, as well as the question of “content” in artwork and its relationship to macroeconomics, the perils of political speech in the era of corporate social media and AI, and the possibilities of agitprop in our time. They will also screen some short videos.
Captions
Josh Kline
Crying Games, 2015, 12:52 min, HD video, color, sound (video still)
Simon Denny
Output 1042
2025
plotted acrylic and inkjet on canvas
120×120×4cm
Photo by Nick Ash.
courtesy the artist and Kruapa-Tuskany Zeidler.
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