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 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

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.

The exhibition “Schalen” [“shells”] shows the human effect on natural environments by combining building materials with organic substances. The origin of the works lies in a garden project in which an overgrown plot of land was extensively cut back and structurally altered. What remains are the relics and findings of this intervention, which can be experienced as an expansive installation.

Larissa Heim is studying at the Academie of Fine Arts in Stuttgart with Prof. Alisa Margolis
(among others).

The exhibition ends with a closing event on December 6, 2024 from 7 pm.

Photo Credits Ulrike Reichart, 2025

Water is not only one of the most important resources and a prerequisite for all life, it is also a connecting element. Wet Relations (concept and design by Beatrice Bucher and Sonja Schwarz) establishes an intimate and direct connection between us and the Neckar river with its interactive installation and reports on different relationships between human and non-human bodies of water in a lecture performance (read by Jana Rzehak).

The project is a format of  the neckarinsel e.V. In addition to the exhibition, the association will be presenting its work.

Further program:
Friday, July 12, 2024, open from 2-4 pm
Saturday, July 13, 2024, 4-5 pm & 6-7 pm
Sunday, July 14, 2024, 2-3 pm

The filtered Neckar water can be drunk using the glass bowls.
Tasting bowls for sampling. Brochure to take with you.

Opening on Friday, April 19, 2024 at 7:30pm with a performance and introduction by Luzi Gross (Cultural scientist, Art educator, Curator). The exhibition is on view until May 17, 2024.

The exhibition is a sci-fi experiment with the fungus Ganoderma applanatum as its main agency. In reference to Stuttgart, the artist has brought the exhaust soot of a Daimler E-Class, her hair, and wood from a forest in relation with the finest hyphae of the fungus. In the laboratory, the fungus has woven a new kind of microbiome that emerges as a multispecies from fungi, tree, car and humankind. The artist repeats the experiment in a performance with the participation of visitors at the opening.

Further Composts of Newborns will emerge during the exhibition period under the climatic conditions of the project space.

The exhibition ends on May 17, 2024 at 7 p.m. with a conversation with the artist together with the mycologist J. Philipp Benz (TU Munich).

The artist starts the thread winder at 11 am, the process of the falling stones can be seen until 11 pm. Introduction by Dr. Verena Jendrus at 5 pm.The exhibition can be seen until April 5, 2024.

An installation with floating stones can be seen in the exhibition with the title La Caida. All the stones are connected to each other by a thread, which is released by a thread winder. The stones gradually fall onto a metal plate. The falling of the stones is reminiscent of the ticking of a clock; time seems to pass, to run out, possibly even the time we have available to us to herald a change for our climate. What remains is the sound of the stones, which can be heard in the space as a sound installation.

Another work developed by the artist especially for the art space is a drawing created by drops of water. In this case Viviana González Méndez extends her personal space from Baden, her home in Switzerland, to Stuttgart to the river Neckar.

Photo Credits: Ulrike Reichart, 2024

Renate Liebel
December 8, 2023 – January 5, 2024

Renate Liebel is a visual artist who explores man-made and naturally grown systems, thinking primarily about plants and their connection to relics of civilization. Her work includes installations in the open field, still lifes and objects of plants that do not (yet?) exist, graphic sketches, videos and friendly care processes.
For the exhibition, she made a trip to the University of Hohenheim, Department of conversion technologies of renewable materials into the production of bio-based plastics. Inspired by the carbon and nutrient cycles, drawings of fictitious plant-machine hybrids were created that hybrids that can incorporate microplastics and other synthetic materials into metabolic metabolic processes.
In addition, experiments with soil as a modeling material and an artistic look at the mattress that has been left lying in the forest and has been given a new life over the years.

Photo Credits: Ulrike Reichart, 2024

Live performance Stuttgart, September 21, 2023
„Listen to bogs – see bogs“ is a live performance of light art and sound art. This format works with material beyond the tiny range of human sensory perception. Bogs are not normally audible, individual cells of peat moss are not visible. Kurt Laurenz Theinert’s visual language uses these microscope images and translates them into an aesthetic experience. Similarly, the sound of organic processes deep in bog bodies is used as source material for sound processing. Invisibility and inaudibility are transformed into perceptibility. Live measurements of climate data from the performance venue, such as CO2 and room temperature, intervene directly in the visible and audible. The audience experience and shape the processes themselves through their presence. Immersive, expansive 360-degree video installations and the quadrophonic sound structure allow the audience to immerse themselves in incomprehensible processes.

Kurt Laurenz Theinert – Light art
Kurt Holzkämper – sound art
monascollective.com

Sustainable Food, October 6, 2023 7 pm
Have you ever tried turf?
Indirectly, we consume it every day. Our current diet makes peatlands one of the most endangered ecosystems on earth. 95% of peatlands in Germany and 90% in Europe are fields and pastures. These dry peatlands are among the largest and most dangerous climate emitters1, while wet peatlands are among the most effective climate protection measures.
We are currently eating our earth and climate, so to speak.
At the social sculpture “Eating the Earth”, Sustainable Food Art artist Anja Fiedler will serve up edible peat as a surprising and tasty treat for the palate. Garnished with poetry and facts, the food becomes a delicious temptation and thought-provoking fare. Questions and changes of perspective arise, which can be absorbed with the food in the truest sense of the word.

Thursday, Oktober 19, 2023 at 7 pm at Institute Dr. Flad
„Why wet bogs are better than dry ones and what it has to do with the climate?“
Lecture by Gerald Jurasinski.

Photo Credits: Ulrike Reichart, 2023

Opening on Friday May 19, 2023 on 7:30 pm
In the exhibition blühen (blossom), each monument is created only for a single moment. Each item is found in everyday environments, especially plants in the green spaces of Stuttgart. The exhibited pieces will be borrowed, assembled for the exhibition show and then afterwards returned, if possible, otherwise recycled. The exhibition will change its appearance constantly over the period of the four weeks.

The exhibition ends on June 16, 2023 on 7 pm with an introduction of Enno Lehmann.

Photo Credits: Ulrike Reichart, 2023