In his project “This is my rock band – Moonlight” Misha Goodwin will present an installation inspired by animatronics. It consists of is a duo of mechanical dolls inspired by the rock band “The Rock-afire Explosion”, which was performing around the 1980s and whose stage image also consisted of mechanical animal figures. In the modern culture, animatronics often become characters in Internet folklore – they are used to create creepypasta and Internet horror.

Water sets rhythm, adhesion, resistance, and surface tension. Skin becomes membrane.

- Ghada Waked

Exhaustion as an expression of resistance, depression as a silent but fundamental indictment of a sick system: in Dream Baby Dream, Rebekka Benzenberg draws attention to questions that only on a surface level appear personal and intimate. With a pointed compilation of sculptures, sound, and painting, the artist circles around the motif of the bed – a tempting retreat and hated sickbed at the same time – which she locates politically and illuminates critically. In doing so, the image of women in late capitalism as well as the overwhelming flood of therapy offers are being scrutinized.

– Malte Lin-Kröger

Yao Jui Chung created this “state within a state” by applying the concept of parasitism, viz., the Republic of Cynic (parasite) lives in the Republic of China (host).

“Drawing equally from science fiction aesthetics and rural ingenuity, the Beeseeker’s attire evokes both survival gear and ceremonial costume”.

“The 20th century still haunts us
All ages haunt us”

- Arthur Golyakov

“Plasticglomerates constitute compelling evidence of human impact on geological processes, serving as a potential marker of a new geological era”.

The project investigates how these substances express vitality, fragility, and resistance, operating as expressive surfaces, reflecting and representing both inner and outer states of glow.

"The ambivalence of our relationship with the past and its ghosts" - art historian Viktor Misiano on the exhibition.

“The pharmacy receipts signal the body’s dependencies, its open and responsive systems, its interwovenness with hostile systems. Its situatedness in time and place and the attendant prevailing logics, beliefs, and value systems that govern “healthcare”, as in, people’s lives. Maybe I care so much about seeing an artist’s pharmacy receipts because I reckon with the mysterious impulse to make and re-assemble things with my hands, and having my (aching, swollen) hands full with pharmacy receipts”.
- Katz Tepper