FUTURE PERFECT. Contemporary Art from Germany

The exhibition FUTURE PERFECT features artworks on the theme of visons of the future and speculations about the course history will take. Are we still capable of communicating through the speculations and assumptions of the future perfect? How do artists engage with this in terms of their use of materials, forms, imagination, action, and narratives? How do they reflect on what is past in a new way? Where do they see possibilities for action? Today, “future” seems to us a critical concept. Even the immediate future seems hardly predictable because of the acceleration of digitality and mobility. The exhibition seeks to encourage visitors to reflect on promises for the future.The exhibition presents the works of 15 international artists who live and work in Germany. They work in various media — film, photography, sculpture, object art, painting, and collage. All the works have in com-mon that crucial social questions are translated into artistic concepts with the goal of outlining future room for manoeuvre for the imagination and action.With artworks by Nairy Baghramian, Mariana Castillo Deball, Cyprien Gaillard, DAS INSTITUT (Kers-tin Brätsch und Adele Röder), Annette Kelm, Jutta Koether, Armin Linke, Antje Majewski, Henrik Olesen, Yorgos Sapountzis, Nora Schultz, Nasan Tur, Danh Vo, and Clemens von Wedemeyer.