when I am not in this place, face the sunrise for me Auszug aus To Gahheya Ursula K. Le Guin (Always coming home, 1985)
The first quarter of the 21st century is almost over. Crises, wars, and climate collapse are surrounding us. And make us feeling powerless. How do we see our time and our future?
Marie Salcedo Horn is 30 years old and is wondering how people who are 10, 20, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, or 90 years old think about time and our future.
Stones provide a point of reference for this. They were here long before us and will survive us who are alive today.
We cordially invite you to the closing reception of the exhibition on August 1, 2025 on 7 pm with a lecture of Silja Lenz.
To the end of the exhibition Below, Silja Lenz invites you to a lecture that continues the poetic and mythical moment of her work. She will read the story “Die, die nie ganz auftaucht” (the one who never fully emerges), a literary dive into the deep sea, to a creature between myth and memory.
Below by Silja Lenz Opening on Friday, Juli 11, 2025 at 5:45 pm for children (in cooperation with the Youth Art School Stuttgart) at 7 pm for everyone.
A soft body, fired in clay. Fragmentary, torn from movement, broken into pieces. What otherwise eludes the gaze now lies open before us – rigid, tangible, and yet foreign. From the depths, people tell stories: of beings that no one has fully seen, of tentacles that embrace ships. Between fear and fascination, an image emerges that says more about us than about what lives down there.
Opening of the exhibition Sound & Color with Liss/Martin (Heike Liss, Jessica Martin) on Friday, May 23, 2025 at 7:30 pm.
The project Sound & Color by the Californian artist duo reflects the collective need to be in touch with nature in a participatory action. Liss/Martin issued an open call to participate in a simple and powerful gesture of climate activism with the following question:
Find a moment with nature in your everyday life, in your city, in your home or on the road, film this moment with your cell phone and then share it with us. Two video works were created of the entries submitted, which can be seen now in the exhibition space.
Here is the opening speech for Sound & Color (download):
The exhibition ends on June 18 with a closing event at 7 pm
Opening of the exhibition Time and Space by Damaris Wurster and Thiele-Zoll (Ursula and Dietmar Thiele-Zoll) on Friday, March 28, 2025 at 7:30 pm
This exhibition brings together two generations who both deal with the topics of space and time. Both have completely different approaches. In Damaris Wurster’s work, unpredictable processes play a role in the creation of images. In Thiele-Zoll’s work, all the details are very meticulously formulated before the painting process begins. The starting point for Damaris Wurster’s works is existing material such as photos or films, which are processed in elaborate decomposition processes. Thiele-Zoll’s works are driven by the immensity of space and time.
On Wednesday, April 9, 2025 at 6 pm we are looking forward to the lecture Time, Space, Light by Joachim Sommer (Historian of science).
This will take place at the Institute Dr. Flad, on the other side of the art space. We will meet in the art space at 5.30 p.m. and go together to the Institute.
The art space kunst [ ] klima is the first art space in Stuttgart to
exclusively show exhibitions on the theme of climate change and sustainability.
The bracket between the terms art and climate is provided with a blank space, it opens a possible
space for communication and connection, the blank space preserves openness and flexibility.
Unique exhibitions with works by artists from very different disciplines are shown, with a focus
on predominantly scientific topics such as climate, weather, climate change, energy transition,
plants, water, earth, earth history, biology, biochemistry, chemistry and artificial
intelligence.
The focus of the exhibitions is largely on the content of a work shown and its art education. The
advertisement for kunst[ ]klima takes place primarily via digital channels (instagram,
newsletter).
Lecturers are invited to complement the exhibited topics.
We signed culture4climate.de's Declaration of sustainability in 2023!
Team
The project space was founded by Barbara Karsch-Chaïeb in 2021.
Florentine Bofinger is taking care of the graphic design, she has implemented the logo and is
in contact with the Conzelmann printing company (Graphischer Betrieb Bisingen), which is
printing the invitation cards. For reasons of sustainability papers are used that are in
stock. The tool for embossing on the respective cards was made uniquely and is used
repeatedly with different inks for each card.
