CHROMA*ambiguità

In the organizer's words:

Artists

Michelle Baumann | Noah Kauertz | Fern Liberty Kallenbach Campbell | Andrew Friedrich Zixu Wang | Jakob Scheidt | Merle Pappelbaum | Pascal Schilling

With CHROMA*ambiguità, the Neurotitan is presenting a group exhibition of eight young, international artists whose works are aimed at an immediate visual and sensual experience. The exhibition provides an insight into a contemporary visual and material culture that is clearly located in the present.

The title CHROMA*ambiguità is an artistic concept that combines color (chroma) and blurriness or ambiguity. It refers to a curatorial approach that deliberately avoids unambiguous interpretations and instead focuses on the sensory reception of the works. The exhibition understands ambiguity as a productive state: meanings remain open, perceptions can be contradictory and different approaches coexist on an equal footing. In this sense, CHROMA*ambigiguità calls for a form of tolerance of ambiguity - an endurance and acceptance of multiple perspectives and meanings.

What the participating positions have in common is a strong focus on the respective medium. The works develop their effect through color, materiality, surface and form, rather than through explanatory texts or conceptual framing. An intensive examination of craft processes and their expansion under contemporary conditions forms a unifying basis.

A subtle digital influence runs through all of the works, although this is rarely explicitly addressed. Instead, a broad spectrum of surfaces, forms and material combinations is revealed, the juxtaposition of which creates a dense material-aesthetic structure. The exhibition invites visitors not to reduce this complexity to a clear meaning, but to understand it as an open space of experience.

Explanatory wall texts are deliberately omitted. Visitors are invited to approach the works without a predetermined interpretation and to develop their own associations, thoughts and perceptions. This open approach to reception is supported by a site-specific multi-channel sound installation by Pascal Schilling. Its harmonious, restrained structure creates an atmosphere of lingering and opens up an acoustic space in which the visual works can take effect. Through the use of psychoacoustic effects, the spatial conditions of the Neurotitan are taken up and subtly expanded, while

CHROMA*ambiguità unfolds between sensual experience, contemporary material research and open perception.