sabotage practice

SOCIAL UNREST Bernadette Corporation, Hannah Black, Ivan Cheng, Satoshi Fujiwara, Tony Cokes, Alessandro Di Pietro, Satoshi Fujiwara, Hannah Quinlan & Rosie Hastings, Tiffany Sia, Sung Tieu. 13.04.2026 - 12.09.2026 @matta___________ Curated by @niccolo_gravina Historical research by @babywasu Exhibition design by @sabotagepractice The exhibition design, by the architecture firm sabotage practice, develops as an autonomous structure built on site with found materials, such as cardboard and standard metal profiles for plasterboard structures. It stems from research focused on the movement of bodies, serving as an experimental attempt to update the languages that govern them. The construction challenges chronological linearity by preventing any overall view; configured as an obstructive barricade, it acts as a shattered device for displaying the works, rendering the recursivity of the riots physically perceptible. 📷 @marcodapino

SOCIAL UNREST Bernadette Corporation, Hannah Black, Ivan Cheng, Satoshi Fujiwara, Tony Cokes, Alessandro Di Pietro, Satoshi Fujiwara, Hannah Quinlan & Rosie Hastings, Tiffany Sia, Sung Tieu Curated by Niccolò Gravina Historical research by Zoé Samudzi Exhibition design by Sabotage Practice 13.04.2026 - 12.09.2026 Social Unrest is focused on contemporary riots, which have spurred a profound commotion in the analysis of forms of protest and collective violence. By observing its history, the project identifies a link between the latest manifestations of social unrest and a constellation of precedents, revealing their recursiveness in order to shed light on their structural causes. The exhibition presents new productions by Ivan Cheng, Tony Cokes, Satoshi Fujiwara, Hannah Quinlan & Rosie Hastings, Tiffany Sia, and Sung Tieu, along with recent works by Bernadette Corporation, Alessandro Di Pietro and Hannah Black. The artworks are the result of a dialogue with the artists that has lasted over two years, and of historical research that has initiated their creative process. The exhibition design, by the architecture firm SABOTAGE PRACTICE, develops as an autonomous structure built on site with found materials, such as cardboard and standard metal profiles for plasterboard structures. The construction challenges chronological linearity by preventing any overall view; configured as an obstructive barricade, it acts as a shattered device for displaying the works. The temporal and aesthetic constellation generated by the exhibition thus outlines a heuristic system that, traversing history, alludes to the structural reasons that give rise to riots. What emerges is a fragmented and incomplete chronology that acts as a montage, testing the limits of a collective artistic effort to address political and social issues. Social Unrest illuminates the ethical and epistemological collisions of these phenomena, without omitting their more obscure and violent aspects, but contradicting their presumed irrationality. Extracted from a text by Niccolò Gravina 📷 by @marcodapino

SOCIAL UNREST Bernadette Corporation, Hannah Black, Ivan Cheng, Tony Cokes, Alessandro Di Pietro, Satoshi Fujiwara, Hannah Quinlan & Rosie Hastings, Tiffany Sia, Sung Tieu Curated by Niccolò Gravina Exhibition design by SABOTAGE PRACTICE Historical research by Zoé Samudzi 13.04.2026 Opening reception 12:00 - 21:00 Le rivolte indagate in “Social Unrest” manifestano il ritorno dalla sfera della produzione — lo sciopero che blocca la fabbrica — a quella della circolazione: le sommosse che agiscono sui flussi e sui mercati. Volgendo lo sguardo alla storia pre-industriale, la mostra rintraccia nelle sommosse dell’epoca una parentela con la contemporaneità, sperimentando nuove strategie per interpretare questa fase di transizione e la conseguente crisi dei codici estetici e politici. Diagramma di Giovanni Arrighi, citato da Joshua Clover - The uprisings investigated in Social Unrest manifest a shift from the sphere of production—the strike that halts the factory—to that of circulation: riots that act upon flows and markets. Looking back at pre-industrial history, the exhibition traces a kinship between the riots of that era and the contemporaneity, experimenting with new strategies to interpret this transitional phase and the resulting crisis of aesthetic and political codes. Scheme by Giovanni Arrighi, quoted by Joshua Clover

We are pleased to introduce Valentina Noce as one of our guest lecturers. Sabotage Practice is an architectural office founded in Milan in 2024 by Valentina Noce. The studio currently works on private projects, exhibition design, and research and writing. Valentina teaches at the Chair of Architecture and Care at ETH Zurich and is completing a PhD at Politecnico di Milano. Shrinking Archipelago — apply now. 
 AA Visiting School
Berlin
5–14 August 2026 @aavisiting_school @aaschool @shrinking_archipelago @sabotagepractice 📷@piercarloquecchia @dsl__studio #greenarchipelago #intelligentruin #oswaltmatthiasungers #remkoolhaas #genericcity #transformation

Barricades DEX2025 curated by @davidecontran @distortionstudio.eu at @cuinda , Faculty of Architecture, Chulalongkorn University (Bangkok) sabotage practice (Valentina Noce and @francesco__dini ) with Gina Andersen, P. Chainapasak (Paopao), S. Kamthornthip (Poon), Y. Lu (Pat), N. Ngimhuang (Poon), C. Prasomsup (Patty), P. Rangsivichitprapa (View), S. Sriprasart (Chogoon), Nadia Suttipiu, A. Tayaputch (Köln), P. Torsuwan (Windwind), and N. Wanishsakpong (Fuze). Photographs by Napat Pattrayanond

SABOTAGE PRACTICE: CAMPING @sabotagepractice

SABOTAGE PRACTICE: CAMPING Documentation of @sabotagepractice ‘s brilliant exhibition ‘Camping’ from March this year🔥

SABOTAGE PRACTICE: CAMPING

Our current show ‘XIV: Tablets’ by Sabotage Practice is now extended until 31.7.25. Open by appointment via email or dm. ‘In his 1925 ‘A Note upon the ‘Mystic Writing-Pad’ Freud uses the children’s writing toy as a device to describe memory. The writing pad consists of a wax surface covered by a thin sheet that can be written on and then wiped clean. Freud uses this to explain how the mind can receive new impressions (writing on the surface) while still retaining traces of past experiences (the marks left in the wax beneath). In a reverse and incoherent operation - a dysfunctional memory - ‘Tablets’ records the walls of RTA HQ. Bringing a blank gummy surface in a Ryanair cabin bag (40x20x25cm MXP - STN) we have just a day to collect traces of the gallery space. This survey of the walls cracks, lesions, bumps, stains, distresses, marks, is reported onto the latex layer through a frottage technique. The surface - working as a pad - displays the gallery’s unknown evidences, rendering them explicit and ambiguous’ @sabotagepractice #sabotagepractice

Details of ‘XIV: Tablets’ by Sabotage Practice at RTA HQ. Open by appointment until 31.7.25. ‘Now some time ago there came upon the market, under the name of the 'Mystic Writing-Pad', a small contrivance that promises to perform more than the sheet of paper or the slate. It claims to be nothing more than a writing-tablet from which notes can be erased by an easy movement of the hand. But if it is examined more closely it will be found that its construction shows a remarkable agreement with my hypothetical structure of our perceptual apparatus and that it can in fact provide both an ever-ready receptive surface and permanent traces of the notes that have been made upon it.’ - Sigmund Freud in ‘A Note Upon the Mystic Writing Pad,’ 1924. @sabotagepractice #sabotagepractice

Opening next Thursday, 19.6.25. 6-9pm. RTA presents ‘XVI: Tablets’ by Sabotage Practice at RTA HQ. This is the first time their work has been shown in England. ‘Sabotage Practice is an architecture and landscape office based in Milan. The studio is currently working on international competitions, academic research, teaching, and collaborative design. It was founded in 2024 by Valentina Noce, who is currently completing a PhD at Politecnico Di Milano.’ 280D Caledonian Road London N1 1BA @sabotagepractice

scanned landscape project