Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa, INDEX 2025 (Roma Publications, 2025In conversation Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa with Tom Holert
01 November 2025Artist, writer and editor Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa is joined in conversation by writer and curator Tom Holert, to discuss Wolukau-Wanambwa’s recently published INDEX 2025 (Roma Publications), shortlisted for the Photobook of the Year by the Paris Photo—Aperture PhotoBook Awards.
INDEX 2025 is a book concerned with meaning made during a time of sustained, profound, often violent disarticulations of meaning. It’s a book made up of images and words, a book that explores the entanglements between reference, reality, description, feeling and fact.
Holert and Wolukau-Wanambwa have previously collaborated on the publication Hiding in Plain Sight, published by the Harun Farocki Institute (2020). Copies of both publications will be available via our newly launched Bride Stripped Bare Books.
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Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa (British/Ugandan) is an artist, writer and editor. Recent publications include INDEX 2025 (Roma Publications), “Echo—Location” (e-flux Journal #153, April 2025), a series of written exchanges entitled Indeterminacy: Thoughts on Time, the Image, and Race(ism) between him and curator David Campany (MACK, 2022), the selected essays Dark Mirrors (MACK, 2021) and the photographic monograph Hiding in Plain Sight—co-authored with fellow artist Ben Alper (Harun Farocki Institute, 2020). Recent exhibitions include 2025 Annual Exhibition at The Campus, NY; Scene at Eastman, at George Eastman Museum (2024-2025); Greater New York at MoMA PS1 (2021); But Still, It Turns at the International Center of Photography, NY (2021).
Tom Holert works as an in(ter)dependent scholar and curator with a focus on the politics and spatiality of knowledge in art and culture. He authored and co-authored various books and organized several exhibitions—such as Neolithic Childhood. Art in a False Present, c. 1930 (with Anselm Franke, 2018), and Education Shock. Learning, Politics and Architecture in the 1960s and 1970s (2021), both at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin. In 2015 he co-founded the Harun Farocki Institut in Berlin (harun-farocki-institut.org). Recent book publications include: Navigation beyond Vision (ed. with Doreen Mende, 2023) and ca. 1972. Gewalt – Umwelt – Identität – Methode (2024). Forthcoming titles: Kunst und Politik – zur Einführung, and Bildformen des Rechts. Juridische Schauplätze technischer Bilder (ed. with Claudia Blümle and Katja Müller-Helle) (both 2026).
INDEX 2025 is a book concerned with meaning made during a time of sustained, profound, often violent disarticulations of meaning. It’s a book made up of images and words, a book that explores the entanglements between reference, reality, description, feeling and fact.
Holert and Wolukau-Wanambwa have previously collaborated on the publication Hiding in Plain Sight, published by the Harun Farocki Institute (2020). Copies of both publications will be available via our newly launched Bride Stripped Bare Books.
Spaces are limited, to book your ticket please contact the gallery below.
Book Tickets
Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa (British/Ugandan) is an artist, writer and editor. Recent publications include INDEX 2025 (Roma Publications), “Echo—Location” (e-flux Journal #153, April 2025), a series of written exchanges entitled Indeterminacy: Thoughts on Time, the Image, and Race(ism) between him and curator David Campany (MACK, 2022), the selected essays Dark Mirrors (MACK, 2021) and the photographic monograph Hiding in Plain Sight—co-authored with fellow artist Ben Alper (Harun Farocki Institute, 2020). Recent exhibitions include 2025 Annual Exhibition at The Campus, NY; Scene at Eastman, at George Eastman Museum (2024-2025); Greater New York at MoMA PS1 (2021); But Still, It Turns at the International Center of Photography, NY (2021).
Tom Holert works as an in(ter)dependent scholar and curator with a focus on the politics and spatiality of knowledge in art and culture. He authored and co-authored various books and organized several exhibitions—such as Neolithic Childhood. Art in a False Present, c. 1930 (with Anselm Franke, 2018), and Education Shock. Learning, Politics and Architecture in the 1960s and 1970s (2021), both at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin. In 2015 he co-founded the Harun Farocki Institut in Berlin (harun-farocki-institut.org). Recent book publications include: Navigation beyond Vision (ed. with Doreen Mende, 2023) and ca. 1972. Gewalt – Umwelt – Identität – Methode (2024). Forthcoming titles: Kunst und Politik – zur Einführung, and Bildformen des Rechts. Juridische Schauplätze technischer Bilder (ed. with Claudia Blümle and Katja Müller-Helle) (both 2026).