In the organizer's words:

Jane and Louise Wilson

06.02.2026 - 16.08.2026
Curated by Juliane Duft

Jane and Louise Wilson have been shaping video art as an installation in space since the 1990s. They explore macro and micro structures from architectures to cellular tissues that permeate our contemporary lives - and transform them into new spatial experiences. Their exhibition in the Skulpturenhalle is the first to focus on the medium of the moving image as sculpture.

Born in Newcastle in 1967, the sisters conceptually combine video, photography and sound in their works to investigate the visibility and invisibility of power relations. They became internationally renowned with projects for which they visit politically charged places that are difficult to access, such as military installations, government buildings or border zones. For example, they filmed and photographed in a former Stasi prison, in the "Star City" of the Russian space program and in Chernobyl. From the material created there, they develop film installations that open up new, often irritating spatial experiences. Fragmented spaces and bodies are condensed, architecture reveals itself as a repository of memory and changing value systems.

As identical twins, Jane and Louise Wilson share a special eye for the relationships between perception, material, image and identity - especially for their ruptures. Architectural, media and psychological levels intertwine in their work - the suggestions of cinema, media images and hypnosis as well as camouflage and facial recognition as phenomena of control are also central. Reflections, duplications and visual shifts permeate her works and emphasize the surreal, irrational dimensions of the modern structures that surround us.

Her first exhibition in Germany for twenty years takes the location of the sculpture hall on a former NATO and US military site - now surrounded by fields - as its starting point. Central video installations since the turn of the millennium and architectural photographs meet the latest complex of works created in Korea and Japan since 2018, which also focuses on natural structures. The focus is on the interweaving of space, body, perception and power; the works thus reflect on questions of the technologically and geopolitically shaped present.

Opening: Sunday, 08.02.2026, 12 - 17 o'clock

Price information:

Adults: € 5,-; Art:card Düsseldorf/pupils/students: Free admission; Hombroich Ticket: Adults: € 25.00 / Reduced: € 15.00, the Hombroich Ticket entitles you to access all institutions and exhibitions in Hombroich: Museum Insel Hombroich (Mon-Sun) Langen Foundation (Tue-Sun) Skulpturenhalle Neuss (Thomas Schütte Stiftung, Fri-Sun) Siza-Pavillon (Fri-Sun) Räume für Fotografie (Fri-Sun) Feld-Haus - Museum für populäre Druckgrafik (Sat/Sun) Raketenstation Hombroich (Mon-Sun), available from Insel Hombroich and the Langen Foundation