NO ONE'S ARK

In the organizer's words:

When we talk about an ark, many images and stories come to mind, but also a number of questions: Who is granted access? What is taken on board and what is left behind? What relationships develop on the ark? Would a social order develop and, if so, what would it look like? And perhaps crucially, where would the "ark" head - if it moved at all?

If the ark is thought of as a bunker, or conversely, the bunker as an ark, our ideas shift. A subtle tension arises between the "bunker" and the "ark": the bunker remains bound to the sediments of history, while the ark is dedicated to the designs of undefined futures. It may promise escape or salvation, but above all it functions as a temporary moment in which a polyphony emerges without coagulating into a unity.

The exhibition in the former bunker, which was initiated by Mischa Kuball, offers 28 young artists from the KHM an exhibition space for works dedicated to the field of tension between "ark" and "bunker".