Zheng Guogu, My Teacher, 1993 © Zheng Guogu, Courtesy of the artist and Vitamin Creative Space
We Are All Fellow Travellers
We are facing major challenges:
Climate change, energy transition,
artificial intelligence, pandemics, economic
turmoil, and social polarization necessitate
a rethink at all levels. The bad news and
the good news: We are, on a global scale, all
affected and connected. Our common future is at
stake. That is why we can only find
solutions together.
With our new program, we want to bring
people together: in networks, across
geographies and cultures. We go back to
the founding idea of the ZKM and invite
you all to join us in shaping the world
together. With inspiration from art, science,
and technology in the context of social
perspectives and change.
We are all »Fellow Travellers«, looking
together into an unknown future, a future
with technologies and waves of innovation
that we cannot even imagine today.
(A)I Tell You, You Tell Me
Three Encounters for People and Machines
Sat, May 04, 2024 – Sun, Nov 24, 2024
Atrium 1+2, Ground floor
Artificial intelligence is a major issue
of our time, which we not uncommonly
react to with skepticism and prejudices.
The exhibition slots into the current discourse
on AI and offers the opportunity to enter
into dialog and exchanges with algorithmic systems.
By engaging interactively, we can explore
intuitively our relationship to technology,
question existing prejudices, and
reflect on our own self as well as
the purported technological »other«.
To this end, we have commissioned three
large-scale artworks:
»AEIOU« (2024), robotlab
»Electrify Me, Baby« (2024),
Anne Duk Hee Jordan
»Flatware, Hardware, Software, Wetware« (2024), ZKM Hertz-Lab
BLACK FLAGS
Edith Dekyndt, William Forsythe, Santiago Sierra
Sat, June 22, 2024 – Sun, October 06, 2024
Atrium 8+9
The exhibition »BLACK FLAGS« presents
three artworks that use the motif of the black flag:
The installation »Black Flags« (2014) by
U.S. choreographer and artist William Forsythe,
in which two industrial robots wave black flags
with digital precision;
the immersive photo and sound installation
»Black Flag« (2015) by Spanish concept and
performance artist Santiago Sierra, which
documents the raising of the black flag
as the iconic symbol of the anarchist movement
at the geographic North and South Poles;
and the video »Ombre indigène [Indigenous Shadow],
part 2, Martinique« (2014) by Brussels-based
artist Edith Dekyndt, which shows a flag made of
black hair.
In cooperation with A/POLITICAL and
Stiftung Forsythe