Warm invitation to A STORY OF ETERNITY by Séverin Guelpa

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.

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..

Projektraum kunst [ ] klima Stuttgart