Group exhibition
16th of May until the 18th of May 2025, in Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin

Curated by Martim Brion
Text by Martim Brion

Artists:

Alexandre Baptista, Michael Bause, Pedro Boese, Anna-Maria Bogner, Martim Brion, DAG, Thorben Eggers, Ferdinando Fedele, Katinka Hajas, Dieter Hammer, Vanessa Henn, Vera Hilger, Birgit Hölmer, Marile Holzner, João Motta Guedes, Alice Musiol, Heeyoung Rosa Jo, Christian Rothmaler, Marco Stanke, Iemke van Dijk, Guido Winkler, and Veronika Witte.

Text:

Poi piovve dentro a l’alta fantasia (as it rains in fertile imagination)
– Dante Alighieri

Reality is a construct, it is contingent on our capabilities as humans, our senses, which gather information, our genetic makeup as a result of the genes passed down from past generations, and the impact of the environment on these genes and our body in general. Our environment goes from the weather, to nourishment, to interactions with nature and most importantly the interaction with other humans. We are after all a social animal we live in an ant farm. All these interactions and probably many others which I am not mentioning due to my reality being limited by myself, are our make-up and the constituent blocks of our reality. Nonetheless, these factors shift, weather changes, food changes, genes are less useful or more useful for the current period, people interact differently, all changes. That change is the constant, it is understood, however we are focused most of the time, when do these changes take place or will. And this is where it gets tricky, because it is almost impossible to see until the change has taken place and is now a constant. What we can see is the beginning of change but not the change before it happens. Futurology is a tricky business. (…) continue reading…