1646 is an international organisation, with a rich history of exhibitions for emerging and renowned artists. The program showcases innovative and critical artistic practices and supports artists at a local, national and international level in creating new work. The focus is on solo exhibitions, a renowned residency program and international collaborations, with which 1646 has built a reputation for high-quality productions.
In order to question inadequate consensual ideas about society, 1646 programs artists who use the following artistic strategies in their work: fictioning, complicating and humor. It understands fiction as an essential instrument to help imagine the world differently. It embraces and celebrates complexity, contradiction and paradox as inherent qualities of human existence, and uses play and humour as tools needed to maintain an open attitude towards sensitive conversations.