games. Computer games by artists

games seeks to display the varied range of artistic approaches to the phenomenon of computer games with nearly 30 exemplary works of art. Thus, it addresses a subject which has intensely occupied the young media art scene over the past few years.

Muntadas – On Translation: Das Museum

So wie die Dinge liegen (as matters stand)

nicht weit von der wirklichkeit entfernt (not far from reality)

The banal and everyday, the unusual and the suspicious are the motives inspiring the artistic works in the exhibition “nicht weit von der wirklichkeit entfernt” (not far from reality). Here everyday banalities constantly intrude into unusual events and the exceptional intrudes into the banal.

no one ever dies here, no one has a head

The exhibition "No one ever dies there, no one has a head" presents art works that deal with forms of presentation and perception as well as the abstraction and repression of war, violence and fear in "western civilisation." They counteract the blind spots of short- and long-sightedness as well as the fading and fade-over of those images that are just as important for modern warfare as they are for modern mass media.

Say Hello to Peace and Tranquillity

Control Panels. Programming as artistic practice

unstable narratives

Stories - personal narratives, unstable reflections, attempts to define identity and points of view – are streaming from everywhere. They all resist one single interpretation. Everybody has a story, and everybody claims the right to be listened to. Besides this multiplicity of narrations, one and the same narration is expressed in many different ways. What makes these stories unique? To what extent does the position of the narrative and narrator coincide? The exhibition "unstable narratives" deals with these and further questions.

Still | Life

Die Ausstellung „Still | Life“ stellte fünf künstlerische Ansätze vor, die sich mit dem Zugriff auf „Wirklichkeit“ im Zeitalter ihrer technischen Reproduzierbarkeit – und der endlosen Anhäufung ihrer Reproduktionen – beschäftigen. Die KünstlerInnen suchen dabei weder nach dem vermeintlich Wahren und Authentischen hinter den normierten Bildern noch nach Auswegen aus den viel beklagten Bilderfluten. Mit den technischen Instrumentarien der Vervielfältigung und Speicherung von „Wirklichkeit“ entwerfen sie vielmehr gegenläufige Erzählungen, die in einem Spannungsfeld zwischen Unmittelbarkeit und Manipulation, Authentizität und Fiktion, Gegenwart und Vergangenheit zirkulieren.

dialogues & stories

new ideas – old tricks