The exhibition “nebula” addresses the ephemeral as the core of artistic engagement. It grapples with the fleeting, the intangible, and the transitional.
Through fog, smoke, clouds, and sound, moments of transition are staged, which can be experienced on a physical, sensory, and emotional level. The focus lies on processes of perception: How does our gaze change when we make the invisible visible or the visible invisible?
The exhibition reflects the uncertainties of our time—shaped by economic recessions, ecological crises, and geopolitical conflicts—and poses the question: How do we experience these intermediate states of change? These transitions, as they become visible in industrial or urban atmospheres, symbolize the societal fogs in which we navigate.
The terms nebula, ephemeral, resonance, and sound form the theoretical foundation of the exhibition:
- The Ephemeral
- The fleeting, the unrepresentable, and that which is in transition
- Processes of disappearance, transitions, and uncertainties that symbolically represent global and local challenges
- Moments of transition as a state of transformation—always in flux, never static
- Perception and Resonance
- The focus on the process of perception—how we experience the invisible through altered horizons of perception
- Resonance and sound as sensually tangible, acoustic moments that transport fog and ephemerality into space
- Industrialization and Urbanity
- Phenomena of industrial atmospheres, such as industrial fumes or urban pollution
- Reference to Neukölln: From industrial heritage to the urban density of Karl-Marx-Straße or Sonnenallee