Substantial Changes at KAI 10: Art between nature, material, and change
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Substantial Changes: When materials become co-authors
The group exhibition Substantial Changes at KAI 10 | ARTHENA FOUNDATION addresses the materiality and environmental compatibility of contemporary art. It brings together works by Dana-Fiona Armour, Julian Charrière, Liza Dieckwisch, Julia Gruner, Vera Kox, Elsa Salonen, and Diana Scherer, who question established boundaries between natural and artificial, organic and inorganic.
Art as process and open change
At the center of the exhibition is a contemporary art movement in which materials no longer appear as passive carriers of an idea. Substances react, age, change their color or consistency, and inscribe geological temporalities into the works. The artistic work develops as a processual inquiry, in which the uncontrollable plays a productive role.
Poetic materials in the exhibition space
Julian Charrière combines a wall-mounted vending machine with infinity mirrors, lighting, and fossils in Spiral Economy. Diana Scherer's Apical #18 consists of a grown textile made from roots, earth, and red fabric. Elsa Salonen processes fragments of trees and animal bones from Finnish forests into distilled or ground pigments in Heavenly Wooded Area. Liza Dieckwisch works with agar-agar, gelatin, glycerin, bioglitter, oysters, seaweed, and food coloring in I ate your mermaid II.
Ecology, cooperation, and new authorship
The exhibition combines ecological questions with a fundamental reflection on authorship. Artists increasingly see themselves as part of collaborative processes, in which human and more-than-human actors are interconnected. The curation by Ludwig Seyfarth and Julia Katharina Tiemann makes this shift visible as an aesthetic experience: Art emerges here from relationships between material, space, time, and environment.
Accompanying program and artwork review
The exhibition includes an accompanying program with an opening on December 3, 2026, at 7 PM, as well as public tours at 3 PM on selected dates between December 2026 and June 2027. The exhibition atmosphere in the former warehouse of Düsseldorf's MedienHafen allows for focused artwork reviews and opens access to cultural education, material research, and contemporary installation.
Conclusion: An art experience between nature and the artificial world
Substantial Changes invites you to experience the transformation of materials not only intellectually but sensually. Between fossils, roots, biodegradable materials, pigments, and living processes, an exhibition about the future of artistic production emerges. Art lovers will experience a precisely curated, atmospheric display that sustainably alters perceptions of resources, ecology, and human creation. A visit to KAI 10 | ARTHENA FOUNDATION enriches the aesthetic experience and makes contemporary art as an open dialogue with the world directly experienceable.
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