LUMA Arles has launched its 2025/26 season with three exhibitions, including 'Sensing the Future: Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.)', which explores the 1960s collaboration between artists and engineers from Bell Labs, featuring works by Andy Warhol, Jean Dupuy, and Forrest Myers. The season also includes 'Maria Lassnig: Living with art stops one wilting!', examining the Austrian artist's 'Body Awareness' concept and her connection to curator Hans Ulrich Obrist. The exhibitions are bookended by fog and cloud-themed works, including a fog sculpture by Fujiko Nakaya.
The season matters because it revives the legacy of the E.A.T. movement, a pioneering fusion of art and technology that anticipated today's digital art practices, while also highlighting Maria Lassnig's influential feminist approach to self-portraiture. By staging these shows together, LUMA Arles connects historical avant-garde experiments with contemporary concerns about the body, technology, and institutional critique, reinforcing its role as a major European art center that bridges past and present artistic innovation.