Yane Calovski's exhibition »Future Analog« explores the subtle interplay between what history records and what it omits, drawing on a rich variety of archives, including Pascal Schöning's collection and the transformative Skopje Modernist project. At the intersection of these sources, deeper questions emerge — about the tension between historicity and future relevance, singular and multiple identities. The exhibition provides a space where fragments of memory and moments of creative intuition are reconstituted into a present that is at once physical and speculative. Calovski's work negotiates these complexities, inviting viewers to consider how the past informs the present and the speculative futures we construct. Through his lens, archives become living entities, bridging the gap between memory and action, stability and change.

In the project »Schöning, Revisited: Extensions,Chroma, Inflections« Yane Calovski explores the archives of Pascal Schöning in the architect’s apartment in the Cité Radieuse de Briey-en-Forêt in Briey, France. The Cité Radieuse in Briey, France, was one of five housing projects built by Le Corbusier, modeled after his Unitè d’Habitation in Marseille. What fascinates Calovski is the trespass and the interrelationship between the private and the public. Taking some ambient elements of Schöning’s everyday life and practice. Everything that surrounded him is the subject of Calovski’s inspiration and the development of cumulative research and artistic practice.

The installation, »Undisciplined Construction of an Archive«, emerges from reflections on his hometown of Skopje. This disjunction between grand designs and tangible outcomes serves as the foundation for Calovski’s exploration of the Archive for City Planning and Architecture in Skopje. It also informs his reflections on the widespread optimism surrounding modern architecture in the 1960s and 1970s, gestures that later faced criticism for their authoritarian tendencies. Through his work, Calovski invites viewers to reconsider the complexities of urban identity and the legacies of architectural transformations.

Yane Calovski’s practice seeks to make historical information, often lost or displaced, physically and tangibly present. His work functions as a retrieval process, unearthing previously overlooked or forgotten elements and transforming them into tangible, relevant objects. Calovski’s approach involves a meticulous elaboration on found images, objects, and texts — artifacts that carry traces of history, memory, and identity. By recontextualizing these fragments, he reconstructs narratives that resonate in the present, layering meaning and inviting a deeper engagement with the past.

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Yane Calovski’s artistic practice is research-based and interdisciplinary. He is interested in reactivating and linking existing, inconclusive modernist narratives and how these, as evocations, can stimulate a new critical imagination. His perception of a subject is almost always relational and contextual. Visually, he articulates his work by examining the discursive traces in archives that emerge from the absorption and assimilation of information. The non-linearity of collective memory informs his practice as he researches and conducts fieldwork over long periods of time. He gathers materials from diverse archives, challenging the practices, productions, presentations, and consumptions of history. Through writing, drawing, video, and installations, he processes information, actions, and the remnants of previous research, embodying both elusive and concrete themes that sometimes overlap, then reappear. This method creates works that move beyond the idea of an installation and toward architectural constructions that are shaped by the site’s specifics, the material’s visual appeal, and the shape’s ability to change in the mind.

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The exhibition was realized thanks to Zilberman Gallery

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