Laura De Jaeger: current echoes | First exhibition of 2026 at U10 Art Space

Laura De Jaeger — current echoes
15 January – 7 February 2026

U10 Art Space is pleased to announce that current echoes, an exhibition by artist Laura De Jaeger, will open as the first exhibition of 2026, on view from 15 January to 7 February 2026.

The exhibition stems from current echoes, an ongoing installative research project initiated by De Jaeger and architect Bojana Ranković. The project followed a journey from Brussels through Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, and Slovenia, together with three other architects and a social worker, with the aim of visiting and questioning spomeniks, the monuments of former Yugoslavia.

Evolving from previous walks and conversations through neglected industrial-historical areas in Tallinn, Estonia, De Jaeger and Ranković’s shared interest in monumental typologies inspired a reflective investigation into collective memory and the act of commemoration.

The installation unfolds as a process of translation and paraphrasing, where meaning emerges not from the monument itself but from the collective experience of walking towards it. Along the way, De Jaeger collected small stones from the paths leading to these monuments, later 3D scanning and printing them to explore notions of lightness and transformation. The resulting objects, with their topographical lines and architectural qualities, were filmed and sent back to Ranković, who responded through an unscripted reflection on memory, place, and distance.

Through this dialogic exchange, current echoes proposes lightness and flexibility in commemorative practices, questioning how memory can be embodied, reinterpreted, and shared.

The exhibition will also feature a video work in progress on the Baltic Exchange, a “transported” and “stored” monument, as well as a printed collaboration with a Serbian artist-researcher working in the field of memory studies.

Previously shown in Belgium and Estonia, current echoes now returns to its starting context, one of the landscapes that inspired its creation, marking a new chapter in De Jaeger’s ongoing exploration of shared remembrance and architectural fragments.