old stone hold my soul / Marie Salcedo Horn

when I am not in this place, face the sunrise for me
Extract of: 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.

Our first meeting will be in the Travertinpark Stuttgart on Sunday, September 21, on 2 p.m.
Surrounded by rocks and their temporality, people of all ages can share their perspectives on time and the future and try to breathe with the stones. Together, we will experience various physical and listening exercises. Stones are representing permanence, immovability, and stillness, but they also move and change, just in a different temporality than we humans.
Can they give us stability?

Opening of the exhibition
old stone hold my soul
on Friday, October 10, 2025 on 7:30 p.m.,
in the art space kunst [ ] klima Stuttgart, Breitscheidstraße 104A, 70176 Stuttgart

Closing event on Friday, October 31, 7 p.m..

Below

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.

Sound & Color

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

Time and space

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 exhibition ends on April 25, 2025 from 7 p.m.

Exhibition view: Thiele-Zoll, Welträume: Fiktive Wirklichkeit (World spaces: Fictional reality, left) / Damaris Wurster: x-179 (Monitors),
Photo Credits: Ulrike Reichart

Thiele-Zoll (Ursula und Dietmar Thiele-Zoll), Photo Credits: 2025

Dust, and to dust you will return

A warm invitation to the exhibition!
Introduction by Corinna Steimel (art Historian, Director of the Gallery of the City of Böblingen).

The exhibition concludes with a closing event on February 14, 2025, starting at 7 pm.

The exhibition „Dust, and to dust you will return“ challenges the anthropocentric perspective that places humans above other beings in the world. A rotating spine, seemingly floating within the project space, offers only a fleeting reminder of the vitality of an animal. Additional objects complement the kinetic installation.

The artist invites to a conversation on Saturday, February 1, 2025, from 2 to 4 pm.