The second exhibition of the year, Being Flesh by Roy Köhnke, explores the subjective body as the vessel of individuality and the interface with the environment and social space. How does this ‘host’—composed of nerves, bones and flesh—respond to the technological advances brought to it by the biomedical industry? Or how do the monitoring, norms and rules dictated by politics and society affect our physical self-image?

The French artist Roy Köhnke (*1990) is ideally suited to exploring this contentious subject matter in Göttingen through sculptural installations within the field of contemporary sculpture. He is particularly interested in the question: How has our image of the human body been historically constituted? Which forms of imaging media were used, and which anatomical truths were established in what ways? Since transhumanism primarily focuses on the human body, the work-series in Being Flesh are fundamental to the discourse of our 2026 annual theme: TRANSHUMAN.