Digesting the unreal
Wie verändert sich unsere Wahrnehmung, wenn Vertrautes seine Lesbarkeit verliert? Verschieben sich Bedeutungen und wandeln Objekte ihre Form oder Funktion, so verändert sich auch unser Verständnis davon, was sie sind – und wie sie sich in unsere alltäglichen Ordnungen, Routinen und Deutungsmuster einschreiben. Die Ausstellung digesting the unreal bringt vier künstlerische Positionen zusammen, die sich […]
The Wasps Are Stinging Themselves Dry
In the present, we will search in vain for a reliable sense of safety and predictability. With every step of progress, new burdens arise—burdens that can be observed as a form of causality akin to an everyday version of Everett’s many-worlds interpretation. With each new object, event, or change, reality splits into infinite possibilities of […]
In the Making IV
In a dynamic network, where natural and social elements intertwine through co-creation, mediation, and collective survival, a hybrid and inevitable reality emerges for safeguarding ecological and social equilibrium. Within this configuration, conceptions of agency grounded exclusively in the human are surpassed, opening new pathways for posthuman perspectives and multi-agent interactions. Luiza Thaqi and Lena Violetta […]
Lines drawn in sand
Where the Pisa River meets the Narew, the waters still follow their natural course. Among meadows, peat bogs and quiet oxbows, Anna Tymińska paints. Her work intertwines the landscape of the Kurpie region with the rhythm of daily life – walking, observing, noticing the delicate enchantments hidden in ordinary forms along the way. Attentiveness to […]
Warm, Kalt und Sehnsucht
‘Warm, Kalt und Sehnsucht’ (‘Warm, Cold and Longing’), the title alone sets the tone for Jakob Urban’s exhibition. Those who have been around long enough may remember ‘Gefühl und Härte’ (‘feeling and hardness’), a slogan that epitomised the Berlin lifestyle well into the 1980s. Ultimately, it also stood for the nine-month squatting at Winterfeldtstraße 20/22, […]
After Cooling
After Cooling centers on “cooling” as an active and shifting process: the drop in temperature, the dissipation and redistribution of energy, the softening of affect, and the crystallization of memory in a lower energetic state.The exhibition traces how heat migrates, diffuses, and reorganizes across variousinfrastructures—from urban cooling networks and data center thermal systems to cold-chain […]
… AND NO ONE ELSE WANTED TO PLAY
Artists…fuck you! Who gave you this designation? Was it your mother? Or did you take upon yourself this mantle during some formative phase of your elementary education? Isn’t that a little bit like calling yourself a professional genius, or a visionary for hire? And the heaps of praise and pity that get piled upon you…like […]
The city listens back
Microclimates, pigeons, algae on canal walls, ride-sharing data, soil sensors, CCTV acoustics, and our own biometrics all co-produce a living feedback loop. THE CITY LISTENS BACK invites works that treat the city as a sentient mesh: code like mycelium, rivers as data pipes, bodies as antennas. We’re interested in practices that pair technology with organism […]
The Human Factor. Other sides.
Andrius Erminas is a conceptual artist whose work is characterised by oppositions of ideas and forms, surreal elements, and a wealth of symbols and metaphors. He creates spatial, narrative installations and objects, often transforming everyday items into symbolic forms. In his artistic practice, Erminas consistently explores broader themes of environment, authorship and memory, while continually […]
The Rise of the Care Machines 3
Now in its third iteration, The Rise of the Care Machines is an exhibition that centers the practices of new media artists who are also mothers—but whose creative identities are not defined by motherhood alone. These artists work across virtual reality, augmented reality, video, web-based interaction, and installation, refusing the binaries of care/code, labor/play, and […]