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DYSTOPIA AS UTOPIA

Cross-Class Project, October 23, 2026 – November, Opening reception on October 23, 2026, at 7:00 p.m., Projektraum kunst [ ] klima, Breitscheidstr. 104A, 70176 Stuttgart

The exhibition DYSTOPIA AS UTOPIA is conceived as an experimental space in which students develop narratives in which dystopia and utopia are inextricably intertwined.

The theme of dystopia primarily deals with totalitarian regimes and the associated control exerted through surveillance, propaganda, and the media. It is often characterized by a false utopia—a supposedly perfect system that masks strict social hierarchies, technological abuse, environmental destruction, or resource scarcity. Dystopia and utopia stand in apparent, irreconcilable contrast to one another, yet they define each other.

Dystopias can depict current social developments and fears, and by exaggerating these, they can be understood as a critique of the present. The contemporary relevance of the theme arises from the students’ engagement with the content.

INFINITY KISS – It always lasts forever and then it’s over

Introduction of Irene Kastner

We cordially invite you to the opening reception of the exhibition INFINITY KISS
It always lasts forever and then it´s over of Leonie Lass on Friday September 25, 2026 on 7:30 pm.
Introduction of Irene Kastner.

On September 30, 2026 on 6 pm is an artist talk with Barbara Karsch-Chaieb and Leonie Lass.

INFINITY KISS – It always lasts forever and then it’s over describes a tension between the promise of permanence and durability and, at the same time, the impossibility of achieving it. What appears to be “forever” is always bound to material, social, or personal conditions.
Using marble as its medium and taking as its starting point a former marble sawmill—whose history can now only be grasped through traces and the stories of its descendants—the exhibition explores this ambivalence and examines the conditions under which materiality acquires meaning.
The exhibiton is on view until October 17, 2026 and ends with a closing reception on 6 pm.
Opening hours via appointment under 0151 40385302 or kunst0klima@gmail.com

CIRCUIT OF BIRCH – Birch Collective

Circuit of Birch
opening of the exhibition on Saturday, March 21, 2026 at 6 pm, the first day of spring.
We are a part of the Lange Nacht der Museen (Long night of museums) Stuttgart.
The exhibition is on view til April 11, 2026.

The Birch Collective, formed specifically for this exhibition, conceives of itself as a mycelial entity whose mode of working interlaces diverse artistic positions and practices into a collective organism, activated within the exhibition space.

Employing interdisciplinary artistic approaches, the participating artists – Reinhard Krehl, Karl Michael Lange, Maria Grazia Sacchitelli, Mirja Wellmann, and Gabrielle Zimmermann – engage with the birch (Betula pendula). The works span drawing, objects, and sculpture, as well as video, sound, and food-based practices.

Central to the exhibition is the notion of cyclical processes, which connects the individual positions through shared materials, transferred methodologies, and intersecting conceptual frameworks. Extending beyond the motif of the birch, the works explore the complexity and interconnectedness of natural systems, alongside humanity’s enduring attempt to comprehend and articulate this order through artistic, scientific, mythological, and symbolic modes of knowledge.

Programm on the Long Nights of Museum:
On 7 p.m. and on 9:30 p.m. Artist Talk with the Birch Collective.
On 9 p.m. you can hear the Sound performance “Living Streams” (approx. 15–20 min.).
Living organisms are interconnected, processing and sending different signals. They form a world of networks that we can only imagine. In a performance, students from the FKN Lab for Art and Sustainability at the Free Art Academy Nürtingen will experimentally reveal this world.

We deliberately chose not to print invitation cards for this exhibition, but instead are offering a very special limited edition of handmade paper:

A STORY OF ETERNITY by Séverin Guelpa

Opening on Friday, November 14, 2025, at 7 p.m. with a performance.

For the opening of the exhibition A Story of Eternity, Geneva-based artist Séverin Guelpa will present a spectacular material performance. Three hundred kilograms of earth, collected from various symbolic locations in Stuttgart, will be used to create a mold for a copper casting, for which he will use recycled metal from the city's waste facilities.

Guelpa, who works extensively in deserts and regions weakened by mining and deals with both raw materials and explosives, draws inspiration for this new work, created especially for the opening, from the local context of Stuttgart.

On Friday, December 5, 2025, the second phase of the project will take place as part of the closing event, along with an artist talk with Séverin Guelpa and Julia Wirth.

About
kunst [ ] klima

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.