Substantial Changes at KAI 10: Contemporary Art in the Sign of Change
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Substantial Changes: When Materials Become Agents of Change
The group exhibition Substantial Changes at KAI 10 | ARTHENA FOUNDATION addresses the question of how contemporary art is changing in light of ecological, sociopolitical, and technological upheaval. Seven international artists explore the materiality of their work and develop a poetic, research-based exhibition about materials, processes, and planetary connections.
Art Between Nature, Technology, and Transformation
The works of Dana-Fiona Armour, Julian Charrière, Liza Dieckwisch, Julia Gruner, Vera Kox, Elsa Salonen, and Diana Scherer blur familiar boundaries between natural and artificial, organic and inorganic. At the center is an art production that views materials not as passive carriers but as independent contributors. Colors, shapes, consistencies, and biological processes unfold as visible traces of a world in transition.
Materiality as Aesthetic Experience
In the exhibition atmosphere, painting, sculpture, and installation meet in unusual ways. Julian Charrière's work Spiral Economy combines a wall-mounted vending machine with infinity mirrors, lighting, and fossils. The work brings together geological time, technical construction, and the visual language of the infinite loop in a multi-layered spatial effect.
Diana Scherer's Apical #18 arises from grown textiles, roots, soil, and red fabric. The work makes visible how artistic form is produced through living processes and collaboration with more-than-human actors. Elsa Salonen, in turn, processes fragments of trees and animal bones from Finnish forests into distilled and ground colors in Heavenly Wooded Area.
Biodegradable Methods and New Forms of Authorship
Liza Dieckwisch's I ate your mermaid II made of agar-agar, gelatin, glycerin, bio-glitter, oysters, algae, and food coloring illustrates the processual dimension of the exhibition. The materials used react, change their consistency, and open up an aesthetics of the ephemeral. Art appears here not as a fully controlled end product but as an open process with its own laws.
Curators Ludwig Seyfarth and Julia Katharina Tiemann focus on a contemporary art direction in which research, ecological responsibility, and material experimentation are closely linked. The individual creative gesture takes a back seat to collaboration, co-authorship, and a productive openness towards the not fully plannable.
Cultural Education Through Close Examination of Works
Substantial Changes invites a concentrated examination of artworks. The exhibition conveys art historical expertise not only through themes and texts but also through the sensual encounter with materials: through reflections and light, earthy color substances, grown structures, and fragile biological connections. Public tours deepen perspectives on the artworks and their social and ecological contexts.
Conclusion: An Artistic Experience About the Future of Art
Visitors can expect an exhibition where contemporary art reveals itself as a sensitive, material, and living system. Substantial Changes combines aesthetic experience with cultural education and opens new questions of responsibility, resources, and authorship. Those who wish to experience how art responds to the great changes of the present should definitely discover this artistic experience live at KAI 10 | ARTHENA FOUNDATION.
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