Ausstellungseröffnung »(In)visible Shapes the Visible«

Professor: Andreas Greiner

Curator: Shi Shi

Featuring:

Alica Siegele,

Farhang Rafiee & Laleh, 

Freya Stoermer,

Hannah W. Wetzel, 

Hongzhu Chen,

Jane Han, 

Lina Akrami,

Maxim Lewandowski & Leonid Lewandowski 

Melina Julie Sieverling, 

Qi Shen,

Roxana Olympia Seehof & Carlotta Borcherding

Seoyeong Choi

Taking “perception” as their starting point, the 15 artistic works in this exhibition have posed questions, initiated dialogues, and explored different perspectives. They reflect on expectations, doubts, and criticism; examine closeness and distance; and explore people’s experiences and reactions in uncertain and challenging situations. The works span a range of thematic areas: microscopic worlds and social issues, memory and the present, as well as virtual and physical spaces. They draw attention to hidden structures and forms of life, engage with processes of reconstruction and reorganization, and simultaneously address personal emotions, mother-daughter relationships, questions of identity, and historical, social, and political contexts.

She explores how different realities emerge and how various perspectives shape our understanding of the world.

As the biologist Jakob von Uexküll described in his concept of the “environment,” every living being perceives its surroundings in its own way. While a tick relies primarily on temperature and smell, and a bee can perceive ultraviolet light, humans experience the world through colors, language, emotions, and cultural contexts. Thus, every living being lives in its own world, shaped by perception. Perception is not an objective representation of reality, but a unique way of relating to the world. 

We may share the same world, but not the same experience. It is precisely through these differences and overlaps that this exhibition seeks to open up a space for dialogue, perception, and experience.