Artengine is thrilled to present New Suns, an exhibition born from a groundbreaking collective worldbuilding lab. This project brought together an interdisciplinary group of eight artists to explore radical futures through art and speculative fiction, guided by renowned science fiction author Suyi Davies Okungbowa.

The New Suns lab was designed as a space for expansive, collaborative creation, emphasizing generosity, inclusivity, and wild imagination. Participants engaged in an intensive weekend of lectures, workshops, and discussions to collectively construct a shared world. From this shared foundation, each artist then developed individual works, offering diverse perspectives within a unified vision.

Ottawa 2050 is a speculative design project asking what conditions would need to exist for a mid-sized city to become a genuine cultural utopia — not through spectacle or global ambition, but through deliberate, local, civic investment in the people making things within it. Developed by the Artengine team over a series of creation days in early 2026, the project constructs a detailed fictional world set 25 years from now, complete with institutions, policy frameworks, a narrator, and the bureaucratic texture of a city that got some things right.

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Valérie’s project aims to foster interdisciplinary collaboration between conservation biology and the arts, raising awareness about the pressing need to protect biodiversity in an era of change. Through a residency with Artengine, and in collaboration with Dr. Heather Kharouba, Valérie has created an experience that fuses art and technology. This collaboration presents an exciting opportunity to amplify the important role that art can play in raising awareness about biodiversity conservation, while engaging audiences in technological innovations fostered by Artengine.

The exhibition Wishes from Hereafter came to life through a residency at Artengine and will be on view from April 15 until April 30, with a reception on Thursday, April 18, from 5 to 8 pm. (Open until midnight on the night of the reception).