fig-2 was a programme of 50 projects that took place across 50 consecutive weeks at the ICA Studio in London in 2015. fig-2 was a revival of fig-1, a ground-breaking exhibition programme conceived and developed by Mark Francis and Jay Jopling in 2000. The project presented 50 exhibitions in 50 weeks in a room in Fragile House in Soho, London. Fifteen years later, curator Fatos Ustek worked within the same exhibition structure with an energetic and ambitious interpretation, embracing the precedent of an interdisciplinary programme and opening it beyond contemporary art practice, to encapsulate the humanities and sciences. fig-2 was an exhibition with a rare pace, allowing in-depth engagement with a single project within a rapidly changing, energetic programme.

1/50 5th-11th January – Laura Eldret – ‘3 | The Juicers’

2/50 12th-18th January – Charles Avery – ‘Untitled (Dihedra)

3/50 19th-25th January – Hiraki Sawa – ‘Did I?‘, ‘Lineament

4/50 26th January – 1st February – Simon Welsh – ‘Poetic Portraits

5/50 2nd-8th February – Rebecca Birch – ‘Lichen Hunting on the West Coast

6/50 9th-15th February – Young InHong – ‘In Her Dream

7/50 16th-22nd February – Claire Hooper, Maria Loboda – ‘The God Storage Unit‘, ‘The Totality of Everything that Exists (Error)‘ ‘Weapons Are Stashed Securely for an Unknown Future‘ ‘Movements That Mattered (Gold Edition)

8/50 23rd February – 1st March – Edmund Cook – ‘Enumerators

9/50 2nd-8th March – Deborah Coughlin with Gaggle – ‘Yap! Yap! Yap!

10/50 9th-15th March – Annika Ström – ‘Six Lovely People

11/50 16th-22nd March – Beth Collar

12/50 23rd-29th March – Tom Mcarthy

13/50 30th March-5th April – Shezad Dawood – ‘The Room

14/50 6th-12th April – Suzanne Treister – ‘Hexen 2.0

15/50 13th-19th April – The White Review

16/50 20th-26th April – Jacopo Miliani

17/50 27th April – 3rd May – Charlotte Moth – ‘The Story of a Different Thought

19/50 11th-17th May – Ruth Beale – ‘Library of Future Societies

20/50 18th-24th May – David Cheeseman, Ole Hagen, Roberto Trotta – ‘All There Was

21/50 25th-31st May – The Rot of the Stars – ‘Residue

22/50 1st-7th June – Marjolijn Dijkman – ‘LUNÄ Talks

23/50 8th-14th June – Block Universe: Eva Rothschild, Joe MoranA Setup

24/50 15th-21st June – Ben Judd – ‘Apart, We Are Together

25/50 22nd-28th June – Cecilia Bengolea, Celia Hempton, Prem Sahib

26/50 29th June – 5th July – Anne Hardy – ‘RRMMMPH, HUOOGHG, OP, MMMUUOOW, IP

27/50 6th-12th July – Karen Mirza – ‘The Ectoplasm of Neoliberalism

28/50 13th-19th July – Patrick Coyle, Francesco Pedraglio

29/50 20th-26th July – POSTmatter 

30/50 27th July – 2nd August – Anna Barham

31/50 3rd-9th August – Adam Broomberg, Oliver Chanarin

32/50 10th-16th August – Oreet Ashery

33/50 17th-23rd August – El Ultimo Grito

34/50 24th-30th August – Veronika Hauer – ‘Semaphore Dance

35/50 31st August – 6th September – Amy Stephens

36/50 7th-13th September – Eva Grubinger – ‘Black Diamond Bay

37/50 14th-20th September – Melanie Manchot – ‘11/18

38/50 21st-27th September – Josh Wright, Guillaume Vandame

39/50 28th September – 4th October – Darren Bader – ‘Study for Audio/Music

40/50 5th-11th October – Una Knox 

41/50 12th-18th October – FOS – ‘Maggie Margaret Lives

42/50 19th-25th October – Bruce McLean

43/50 26th October – 1st November – Karin Kihlberg, Reuben Henry – ‘This Building, This Breath

44/50 2nd-8th November – Donuts

45/50 9th-15th November – Lynne Marsh

46/50 16th-22nd November – Vesna Petresin

47/50 23rd-29th November – Allison Katz

48/50 30th November – 6th December – Seth Ayyaz – ‘Listening Through a Beam of Intense Darkness

49/50 7th-13th December – Manuel Mathieu

50/50 14th-20 December – Laura Eldret – ‘The Juicers

This project was supported by fig-2 patrons, Bicester Village and Phillips.