Participating artists:Nike Kühn, Daniel Krüger, Nora Lube, Arno Selle, Jannis Weu, C.Bain, Benno Hauswaldt
Period (opening hours):Fri–Sun, 4–10 p.m.
Venue:Galerie KUB
Kantstr. 18
04275 Leipzig
Is the end of the world even imaginable, or does it remain in the realm of myth because we anticipate it through simulations? Our notions of an impending event of the end are shaped by nostalgia, historical templates, and pop culture, while we must acknowledge that a true end can only be viewed in retrospect. When it comes to dealing with contingency, therefore, the recourse to myth comes as no surprise. For that is precisely where the event resides until it arrives in the present. And that is precisely where we can begin: in the transition to something unrepresentable. In the exhibition, bodies, materialities, and narratives meet at the edges of their own legibility—where camouflage, technology, and intimacy merge and become indistinguishable.
Daniel Krüger works with light, materials, and space to explore how, when, and whether content can dissolve into its purest form, while Nike Kühn examines the reciprocal mimesis of nature and technology, as well as notions of decline and nostalgic visual regimes. Nora Lube engages with social and spatial environments, inscriptions of time, and economic power structures. In doing so, she translates these influences into a material and formal language that oscillates between security, intimacy, and self-assertion. Arno Selle addresses facades, intimate dysfunctions, and power relations in open narratives that destabilize functional systems. In their collaborative work, Jannis Weu and C.Bain reflect on pornography as visual power and open up spaces between mythology and queerness, in which bodies surrender to an ambivalent relationship between play and violence. The exhibition is curated by Benno Hauswaldt.
