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TERRA DIASPORA – Actives Terrain N°2 "Collapse is not a destination, it is a process" Julius von Bismarck, Julian Charrière, Marjolijn Dijkman, Raphaël Fischer-Dieskau, Andreas Greiner, Robert Gschwantner, Spiros Hadjidjanos, Kapwani Kiwanga, Almut
TERRA DIASPORA – Actives Terrain N°2
“Collapse is not a destination, it is a process”
Julius von Bismarck, Julian Charrière, Marjolijn Dijkman, Raphaël Fischer-Dieskau,
Andreas Greiner, Robert Gschwantner, Spiros Hadjidjanos, Kapwani Kiwanga,
Almut Linde, Ulrike Mohr, Mazenett Quiroga, Marike Schuurman, Raul Walch
curated by Dr. Almut Hüfler and Stephan Klee
PROGRAMME
Fri 13 Jun 5 – 8 pm
Vernissage – Opening Reception with
– 5 pm: Welcome speeches
– 5 pm: Release of the new Edition by Spiros Hadjidjanos
Sat 14 Jun 3 – 10 pm
Pro City Nacht der Kultur
– 3 pm: Guided tour with the curators
– 5 pm: Talk with Dr. Almut Hüfler,
Prof. Dr. Almut Linde and Dr. Didem Aydurmus
Sun 22 Jun / Sun 06 Jul /
Sun 20 Jul / Sun 03 Aug
each at 3 pm
Sunday tour with Joos Ziegler
Sun 21 Sep 3 – 5 pm
Finissage – Closure
– 3 pm Panel Talk
To enable us to plan better, we would be delighted to receive your reservations for individual programme items at info@kunstvereingoettingen.de or klee@kunstvereingoettingen.de or by telephone on 0551-44899
Event image: Graphic by Stephan Klee, all rights reserved by the author and frontviews
In the second year of TERRA DIASPORA, the central group exhibition Active Terrain N°2 brings together thirteen artistic positions in Göttingen’s Old Town Hall. The works on display, executed in various media such as sculpture, photography, drawing and video, all deal with the discrepancy between the ecological crisis of our planet and how people perceive it. In view of the magnitude and often great distance of human intervention and its consequences over a long period of time, this crisis can be recognised as an acute danger: This is because the complexity of these processes undermines the evolutionarily determined human response options to dangers, so that necessary countermeasures are repeatedly ‘postponed’ in the face of acute emergency situations such as wars, economic crises, etc. As a result, ecological collapse is already taking place without humanity being able to respond adequately. Or as Ugo Bardi, member of the Club of Rome, put it in 2022: ‘Collapse is not a destination, it is a process “*
The exhibition picks up on this phenomenon with a walk-in field of exhibition installations and makes these developments directly tangible – using the example of the two thematic areas ‘Processes in the forest’ and ‘Processes in the soil’. This is essentially made possible by the close connection of the works to real transformation processes from many globally distributed terrains: not only are the relevant places and their changes shown visually and acoustically, but often the affected, original material itself is also used artistically in real in the gallery space, so that the works shown can offer a material translation of external geological-industrial processes.
Like the mineral trickling of an hourglass, the artistic settings make a dilemma of the capitalist growth paradigm and the implications of our lifestyle directly and sensually comprehensible: That the long-term effects of short-term profitable productions are already going on tirelessly underground, but are not adequately incorporated into the planning and actions of the economy. The collected works as a whole become a polyphonic canon of consumption with a real core and the exhibition unfolds as an activated cabinet of curiosities of the urgent ecological upheavals of modern times in a fortified merchant guild house from the High Middle Ages.
*Quote: Ugo Bardi in ‘Limits and Beyond: 50 years on from The Limits to Growth, what did we learn and what’s next?’, 2022
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- Marjolijn Dijkman “Cloud to Ground”, 2021, resin, fulgurite, aluminium board 30 x 30 x 20 cm and Marjolijn Dijkman “Earthing Discharge” (#1 + #2), 2019, framed C-print on paper, 110 x 90 cm
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- Raphaël Fischer-Dieskau “Concerto for extinct birds”, 2024, walnut, spruce, speaker, cable, electronics, 210 x 210 x 25 cm
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- Raphaël Fischer-Dieskau “Concerto for extinct birds”, 2024, walnut, spruce, speaker, cable, electronics, 210 x 210 x 25 cm
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- Raphaël Fischer-Dieskau “Concerto for extinct birds” (detail), 2024, walnut, spruce, speaker, cable, electronics, 210 x 210 x 25 cm
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- Ulrike Mohr “Sheltered (Nest)”, 2024, ceramic and carbonized wood, 85 x 30 x 110 cm, Installation with distilled smoke scent
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- Ulrike Mohr “Sheltered (Nest)”, 2024, ceramic and carbonized wood, 85 x 30 x 110 cm, Installation with distilled smoke scent
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- Ulrike Mohr “Sheltered (Nest)” (detail), 2024, ceramic and carbonized wood, 85 x 30 x 110 cm, Installation with distilled smoke scent
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- “Collapse is not a Destination”, exhibition view: front: Ulrike Mohr, left: Spiros Hadjidjanos, back: Andreas Greiner
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- Spiros Hadjidjanos Unfolded, 2019 Pine (Charred) Part I: 174 x 24,5 x 15 cm – Part II: 183 x 39,5 x 0,5 cm
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- Spiros Hadjidjanos K_enn_ecot_t, 2021 Bronze Cast 52.4 x 41 x 6.4 cm Installed with K_enn_ecot Pre-Cast, 2021
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- Spiros Hadjidjanos “K_enn_ecot_t”, 2021 Bronze Cast 52.4 x 41 x 6.4 cm, Installed with “K_enn_ecot” Pre-Cast, 2021
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- Robert Gschwantner “North Beach Collection V”(detail) , 2023, PVC tubes, seawater, sand, plastic particles, 220×100 cm
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- Robert Gschwantner North Beach, 2021 Collection II, PVC tubes, seawater, sand, plastic particles, folded 95x70cm
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- Robert Gschwantner “North Beach” (detail), 2021 Collection II, PVC tubes, seawater, sand, plastic particles, folded 95x70cm
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- Robert Gschwantner “ERIKA0065” (detail) , 2000, PVC tubes, oil: TOTAL ALTIGRADE GP & ELF 2T, 50x85cm
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- Almut Linde “DIRTY MINIMAL #88.1 MINIMALIZED DIRT SQUARE/ GORLEBEN”, 2014 Salt, 200 x 200 cm and Almut Linde “DIRTY MINIMAL #88.2 – CAVE”, 2014, Light-jet Print, 120 x 180 cm
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- Mazenett Quiroga “Roots of the Sky”, 2024, 9 digital prints on cotton paper Hahnemühle, covered with gold leaf 24K, 59 x 47 cm each
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- Mazenett Quiroga “Roots of the Sky” (detail), 2024, 9 digital prints on cotton paper Hahnemühle, covered with gold leaf 24K, 59 x 47 cm each
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- Mazenett Quiroga Gente Serpiente (Snake people), 2019-2023 2 Bicycle tires and Acrylics 2 Branches, bronze 2 x 60 cm, 2 x 25 x 14 cm
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- Mazenett Quiroga “Gente Serpiente” (Snake people), 2019-2023, 2 Bicycle tires and Acrylics Branch, bronze 2 x 60 cm, 25 x 14 cm
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- Marike Schuurman “Merzdorf 1400 – 1979, Kohle”, 2017 Inkjetprint of reclaimed negatives on aluminium 48 x 36 cm
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- Marike Schuurman “Bergheider See 3-PH3, Toxic”, 2022, Inkjetprint on aluminium, framed in plexiglass box, 104 x 85 cm
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- Marike Schuurman “Bergheider See 3-PH3, Toxic” (detail), 2022, Inkjetprint on aluminium, framed in plexiglass box, 104 x 85 cm
The annual programme 2025
TERRA DIASPORA – ACTIVE TERRAINS
TERRA DIASPORA is the leitmotif of the Kunstverein Göttingen 2024–2025. In view of fundamental upheavals in the coexistence of nature and mankind, TERRA DIASPORA stands for a world on the move; for a terrain that is becoming increasingly alien to its inhabitants and for an earth on which people are becoming foreign bodies. It is an earth in a foreign land, a terra diaspora.
After the first part of the TERRA DIASPORA – WELTEN WANDELN programme series in 2024 explored contemporary forms of fantastic, figurative art, TERRA DIASPORA – ACTIVE TERRAINS is the Kunstverein’s current motto for 2025. As the second part of the comprehensive TERRA DIASPORA exhibition series, the fundamental distortions in the relationship between nature and man in our present day are shown and discussed here using real geographical case studies and the creative reaction of artists to precisely these conditions in Göttingen. This annual programme is also developed and supervised by curator Stephan Klee together with the participating artists and related curators.
We would like to thank our sponsors: Niedersächsische Sparkassen Stiftung, Sparkasse Göttingen, Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur, Stadt Göttingen, and Landschaftsverband Südniedersachsen e.V.
Datum
13. Juni (Freitag) - 21. September (Sonntag)
Veranstaltungsort
Kunstverein Göttingen im Alten Rathaus
Markt 9 | 37073 Göttingen
Öffnungszeiten
Tuesday – Sunday 11 am – 5 pm
26Jul(Jul 26)17:0007Sep(Sep 7)17:00Exhibition – Mélodie Mousset and Ittah YodaDander the Symbiocene
AKTIVES TERRAIN N°3 Mélodie Mousset and Ittah Yoda Dander the Symbiocene curated by Stephan Klee Programme Sat 26 Jul 5 pm Vernissage open till 8 pm Sun 24 Aug / Sun 31 Aug each at 3
AKTIVES TERRAIN N°3
Mélodie Mousset and Ittah Yoda
Dander the Symbiocene
curated by Stephan Klee
Programme
Sat 26 Jul 5 pm
Vernissage
open till 8 pm
Sun 24 Aug / Sun 31 Aug
each at 3 pm
Sunday Tour with Joos Ziegler
Sat 06 Sep 3 – 7 pm
The Long Afternoon of Art
with Guided Tour and Panel Talk
Sun 7 Sep 3 pm
Finissage
open till 5 pm
In order to be able to plan better, we look forward to receiving your reservations for individual programme items at info@kunstvereingoettingen.de or klee@kunstvereingoettingen.de or by telephone on 0551-44899
Event picture: Graphic by Stephan Klee, source: Alamy, all rights reserved by KV Göttingen
In summer 2025, artist Mélodie Mousset and art duo Virginie Ittah and Kai Yoda present a multimedia terrain on the first floor of the Künstlerhaus Göttingen that encloses the visitors and appeals to many senses, including touch and smell. The intertwining installations range from the origins of cave painting to virtually generated landscapes, played through VR glasses. One of the core works is the installation HanaHana by Swiss French artist Mélodie Mousset. This interactive virtual reality experience, which has been developed further over the years, offers guests the opportunity to walk through various virtual landscapes with the help of controllers, while actively shaping and generating them. The freedom, beauty and safety in HanaHana feels remarkable, and opens up a completely digitally generated alternative world, a material-free ‘safe space’ of a special kind.
HanaHana‘s simulation room will be embedded in a far-reaching exhibition design by the French-Japanese art duo Ittah Yoda. The two are working together to combine sculpture, painting and installation with technically advanced media such as LED screens, virtual reality and augmented reality. The two have coined the term ‘Symbiocene’ for these intertwined spaces between tangible materiality and digital vision, and they see their projects as utopian designs for a sustainable symbiosis of ecological cycles and technology.
Thematically, the exhibition offers an innovative examination of the visual culture of humans in Europe in their interaction with the surrounding landscape. As a source of inspiration, both positions share a fascination for the cave paintings of Lascoux and Chauvet and others, i.e. the first permanent images of the inhabitants of a region. These early testimonies can be understood as an act of self-assurance, as a permanent testimony to one’s own existence, as a visual archiving of fellow creatures or as cultic communication with the environment. These are all impulses that have always driven the creation of art. Inspired by these archaic testimonies of cultural self-empowerment, both Ittah Yoda and Mélodie Mousset explore in their works, among other things, the question: “How can the specificity of a territory be embodied today?” – “Or how can completely new imaginary terrains be created on the basis of our cultural history?” In their free, rather associative research, they largely detach themselves from real geographical conditions in comparison to other, more conceptual positions in the annual programme TERRA DIASPORA – ACTIVE TERRAINS. They negotiate concepts such as “landscape”, “place” and “production” more in dialogue with the anthropological and cultural appropriation of this theme by people in the course of cultural history. It is therefore more about the ideas of landscape than about current, actual geographical upheavals in the culmination of the Anthropocene. This exhibition thus not only adds important aspects to the annual programme, but also builds a bridge to the fantastic and surrealist tendencies of the 2024 TERRA DIASPORRA – WELTEN WANDELN annual programme.
In addition to our reliable supporting institutions, this time the additional support from the Lower Saxony Foundation and the Institut Français in particular enables the Kunstverein team to tackle and realise this exhibition concept at the cutting edge of technology and art in Göttingen.
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- Mélodie Mousset HanaHana, interactive 3D – Virtual Reality Simulation, 2017 – 2024, Photorights @ the artist and Fabbula.com, 2025
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- Ittah Yoda “Learning to fly”, 2025, installation view, MAC Lyon | Courtesy of the artists and Galerie Poggi, Paris | photo© Luca Meneghel | Copyright ©VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2025
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- Mélodie Mousset HanaHana, interactive 3D – Virtual Reality Simulation, 2017 – 2024, Photorights @ the artist and Fabbula.com, 2025
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- Ittah Yoda, Exhibition “Arcadia”, Bally Foundation, 2025 | Courtesy of the artists and Galerie Poggi, Paris | photo@ Andrea Rossettii | Copyright ©VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2025
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- Mélodie Mousset HanaHana, interactive 3D – Virtual Reality Simulation, 2017 – 2024, Photorights @ the artist and Fabbula.com, 2025
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- Ittah Yoda, Exhibition “Revenir du présent” at Collection Lambert, 2024 | Courtesy of the artists and Galerie Poggi, Paris | photo by Andrea Rossettii | Copyright ©VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2025
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- Mélodie Mousset HanaHana, interactive 3D – Virtual Reality Simulation, 2017 – 2024, Photorights @ the artist and Fabbula.com, 2025
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- Ittah Yoda, Exhibition “Arcadia”, Bally Foundation, 2025 | Courtesy of the artists and Galerie Poggi, Paris | photo by Andrea Rossettii | Copyright ©VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2025
VITA Mélodie Mousset
Mélodie Mousset (*1981, Abu Dhabi) is a French artist who lives and works in Zurich, Switzerland. Mousset’s works oscillate between virtual and physical worlds, focusing on the physicality of the human body and the potential virtuality of the mind. Mousset works with numerous media for her investigations around the body, including installation, performance, sculpture, photography, video and virtual reality.
Her work draws on personal biography to create playful and surreal narratives that explore the interactions between the self and technology. Her works are often intended to challenge the senses; elements are juxtaposed and transformed to create uncanny and whimsical assemblages in which the body becomes a site of physical and mental exchange with technology.
The artist studied at the École des Beaux-Arts de Rennes, the ECAL (Lausanne) and the Royal College of Arts (London) and completed her training in 2011 with a Master of Fine Arts at CalArts (California Institute of the Arts).
Her projects have been exhibited in galleries and institutions worldwide since 2010, including the MOCA (Museum Of Contemporary Arts, Los Angeles), the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, the MAC (Musée d’Art Contemporain, Lyon), The Metropolitan Art Society (Beirut) and the SALTS (Basel). In 2015, she was the winner of the Swiss Art Award. Her most recent work HanaHana, which was shown at the Zabludowicz Collection (London) in 2018, received seven awards, including the prize for the best artistic virtual reality experience at the VR Festival (Beijing), the prize for the best artistic achievement at the VR Days Festival 2017 and most recently the Visions Prize at the VR Arles Festival 2019. The artist’s most recent solo exhibitions included Intra-Aura at Last Tango (Zurich) in 2018. HanaHana was shown at Galerie V Glavnom (Tomsk, Russia) in 2018 and at Galerie Roehrs & Boetsch (Zurich) in 2019. She will soon be exhibiting at Swissnex (San Francisco).
more information >> https://fabbula.com/artists/hanahana-by-melodie-mousset/
VITA Ittah Yoda
The duo Ittah Yoda, consisting of Virgile Ittah and Kai Yoda, was formed after they met at the Royal College of London, where one was studying sculpture and the other photography and animation. From the beginning, they were fascinated by the natural and digital worlds and began working on the idea of a post-anthropocene world in which these two elements coexist harmoniously, what they call the ‘symbiosis’. While virtual reality occupies a central place in their work and serves as a matrix and maturation process, all the forms that later materialise in painting, sculpture and installation represent an ecosystem of their own, inspired by organic forms and materials and developed in collaboration with numerous artisans. Each of Ittah Yoda’s projects represents a step towards the realisation of this ideal symbiotic ecosystem, in which the media used and the objects created embody and transmit ‘genetic-artistic’ information from their environment. Although they are orientated towards an idea of the future, their work is rooted in art history, drawing in particular on references such as cave paintings and pigment painting techniques.
Recent exhibitions include Bally Foundation, Lugano (CH), ROH Projects, Jakarta (ID), Collection Lambert, Avignon (FR), CIAPV, Vassiviere (FR), Paris + by Art Basel, Paris (FR), the Armory Show, New York (US), the Rencontres d’Arles, Arles (FR), Poush Manifesto, Paris (FR), the Centre Culturel Jean Cocteau, Les Lilas (FR), the Musée des Beaux Arts d’Angers (FR), Hagiwara Projects, Tokyo (JP), Sprout Curation, Tokyo (JP), Cité International des Arts, Paris (FR), Frieze N°9 Cork Street, London (UK), ARCO Madrid, Madrid (ES), etc.
more information >> https://ittahyoda.com/
The annual programme 2025
TERRA DIASPORA – ACTIVE TERRAINS
TERRA DIASPORA is the leitmotif of the Kunstverein Göttingen 2024–2025. In view of fundamental upheavals in the coexistence of nature and mankind, TERRA DIASPORA stands for a world on the move; for a terrain that is becoming increasingly alien to its inhabitants and for an earth on which people are becoming foreign bodies. It is an earth in a foreign land, a terra diaspora.
After the first part of the TERRA DIASPORA – WELTEN WANDELN programme series in 2024 explored contemporary forms of fantastic, figurative art, TERRA DIASPORA – ACTIVE TERRAINS is the Kunstverein’s current motto for 2025. As the second part of the comprehensive TERRA DIASPORA exhibition series, the fundamental distortions in the relationship between nature and man in our present day are shown and discussed here using real geographical case studies and the creative reaction of artists to precisely these conditions in Göttingen. This annual programme is also developed and supervised by curator Stephan Klee together with the participating artists and related curators.
We would like to thank our sponsors:: , Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur, Siftung Niedersachsen, Stadt Göttingen, Sparkasse Göttingen, Landschaftsverband Südniedersachsen e.V. und Institut Français
Datum
26. Juli (Samstag) - 7. September (Sonntag)
Öffnungszeiten
Tue – Fri 2 pm – 6 pm
Sat + Sun 11 am – 5 pm
September 2025
TERRA DIASPORA – Actives Terrain N°2 "Collapse is not a destination, it is a process" Julius von Bismarck, Julian Charrière, Marjolijn Dijkman, Raphaël Fischer-Dieskau, Andreas Greiner, Robert Gschwantner, Spiros Hadjidjanos, Kapwani Kiwanga, Almut
TERRA DIASPORA – Actives Terrain N°2
“Collapse is not a destination, it is a process”
Julius von Bismarck, Julian Charrière, Marjolijn Dijkman, Raphaël Fischer-Dieskau,
Andreas Greiner, Robert Gschwantner, Spiros Hadjidjanos, Kapwani Kiwanga,
Almut Linde, Ulrike Mohr, Mazenett Quiroga, Marike Schuurman, Raul Walch
curated by Dr. Almut Hüfler and Stephan Klee
PROGRAMME
Fri 13 Jun 5 – 8 pm
Vernissage – Opening Reception with
– 5 pm: Welcome speeches
– 5 pm: Release of the new Edition by Spiros Hadjidjanos
Sat 14 Jun 3 – 10 pm
Pro City Nacht der Kultur
– 3 pm: Guided tour with the curators
– 5 pm: Talk with Dr. Almut Hüfler,
Prof. Dr. Almut Linde and Dr. Didem Aydurmus
Sun 22 Jun / Sun 06 Jul /
Sun 20 Jul / Sun 03 Aug
each at 3 pm
Sunday tour with Joos Ziegler
Sun 21 Sep 3 – 5 pm
Finissage – Closure
– 3 pm Panel Talk
To enable us to plan better, we would be delighted to receive your reservations for individual programme items at info@kunstvereingoettingen.de or klee@kunstvereingoettingen.de or by telephone on 0551-44899
Event image: Graphic by Stephan Klee, all rights reserved by the author and frontviews
In the second year of TERRA DIASPORA, the central group exhibition Active Terrain N°2 brings together thirteen artistic positions in Göttingen’s Old Town Hall. The works on display, executed in various media such as sculpture, photography, drawing and video, all deal with the discrepancy between the ecological crisis of our planet and how people perceive it. In view of the magnitude and often great distance of human intervention and its consequences over a long period of time, this crisis can be recognised as an acute danger: This is because the complexity of these processes undermines the evolutionarily determined human response options to dangers, so that necessary countermeasures are repeatedly ‘postponed’ in the face of acute emergency situations such as wars, economic crises, etc. As a result, ecological collapse is already taking place without humanity being able to respond adequately. Or as Ugo Bardi, member of the Club of Rome, put it in 2022: ‘Collapse is not a destination, it is a process “*
The exhibition picks up on this phenomenon with a walk-in field of exhibition installations and makes these developments directly tangible – using the example of the two thematic areas ‘Processes in the forest’ and ‘Processes in the soil’. This is essentially made possible by the close connection of the works to real transformation processes from many globally distributed terrains: not only are the relevant places and their changes shown visually and acoustically, but often the affected, original material itself is also used artistically in real in the gallery space, so that the works shown can offer a material translation of external geological-industrial processes.
Like the mineral trickling of an hourglass, the artistic settings make a dilemma of the capitalist growth paradigm and the implications of our lifestyle directly and sensually comprehensible: That the long-term effects of short-term profitable productions are already going on tirelessly underground, but are not adequately incorporated into the planning and actions of the economy. The collected works as a whole become a polyphonic canon of consumption with a real core and the exhibition unfolds as an activated cabinet of curiosities of the urgent ecological upheavals of modern times in a fortified merchant guild house from the High Middle Ages.
*Quote: Ugo Bardi in ‘Limits and Beyond: 50 years on from The Limits to Growth, what did we learn and what’s next?’, 2022
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- Marjolijn Dijkman “Cloud to Ground”, 2021, resin, fulgurite, aluminium board 30 x 30 x 20 cm and Marjolijn Dijkman “Earthing Discharge” (#1 + #2), 2019, framed C-print on paper, 110 x 90 cm
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- Raphaël Fischer-Dieskau “Concerto for extinct birds”, 2024, walnut, spruce, speaker, cable, electronics, 210 x 210 x 25 cm
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- Raphaël Fischer-Dieskau “Concerto for extinct birds”, 2024, walnut, spruce, speaker, cable, electronics, 210 x 210 x 25 cm
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- Raphaël Fischer-Dieskau “Concerto for extinct birds” (detail), 2024, walnut, spruce, speaker, cable, electronics, 210 x 210 x 25 cm
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- Ulrike Mohr “Sheltered (Nest)”, 2024, ceramic and carbonized wood, 85 x 30 x 110 cm, Installation with distilled smoke scent
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- Ulrike Mohr “Sheltered (Nest)”, 2024, ceramic and carbonized wood, 85 x 30 x 110 cm, Installation with distilled smoke scent
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- Ulrike Mohr “Sheltered (Nest)” (detail), 2024, ceramic and carbonized wood, 85 x 30 x 110 cm, Installation with distilled smoke scent
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- “Collapse is not a Destination”, exhibition view: front: Ulrike Mohr, left: Spiros Hadjidjanos, back: Andreas Greiner
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- Spiros Hadjidjanos Unfolded, 2019 Pine (Charred) Part I: 174 x 24,5 x 15 cm – Part II: 183 x 39,5 x 0,5 cm
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- Spiros Hadjidjanos K_enn_ecot_t, 2021 Bronze Cast 52.4 x 41 x 6.4 cm Installed with K_enn_ecot Pre-Cast, 2021
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- Spiros Hadjidjanos “K_enn_ecot_t”, 2021 Bronze Cast 52.4 x 41 x 6.4 cm, Installed with “K_enn_ecot” Pre-Cast, 2021
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- Robert Gschwantner “North Beach Collection V”(detail) , 2023, PVC tubes, seawater, sand, plastic particles, 220×100 cm
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- Robert Gschwantner North Beach, 2021 Collection II, PVC tubes, seawater, sand, plastic particles, folded 95x70cm
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- Robert Gschwantner “North Beach” (detail), 2021 Collection II, PVC tubes, seawater, sand, plastic particles, folded 95x70cm
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- Robert Gschwantner “ERIKA0065” (detail) , 2000, PVC tubes, oil: TOTAL ALTIGRADE GP & ELF 2T, 50x85cm
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- Almut Linde “DIRTY MINIMAL #88.1 MINIMALIZED DIRT SQUARE/ GORLEBEN”, 2014 Salt, 200 x 200 cm and Almut Linde “DIRTY MINIMAL #88.2 – CAVE”, 2014, Light-jet Print, 120 x 180 cm
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- Mazenett Quiroga “Roots of the Sky”, 2024, 9 digital prints on cotton paper Hahnemühle, covered with gold leaf 24K, 59 x 47 cm each
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- Mazenett Quiroga “Roots of the Sky” (detail), 2024, 9 digital prints on cotton paper Hahnemühle, covered with gold leaf 24K, 59 x 47 cm each
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- Mazenett Quiroga Gente Serpiente (Snake people), 2019-2023 2 Bicycle tires and Acrylics 2 Branches, bronze 2 x 60 cm, 2 x 25 x 14 cm
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- Mazenett Quiroga “Gente Serpiente” (Snake people), 2019-2023, 2 Bicycle tires and Acrylics Branch, bronze 2 x 60 cm, 25 x 14 cm
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- Marike Schuurman “Merzdorf 1400 – 1979, Kohle”, 2017 Inkjetprint of reclaimed negatives on aluminium 48 x 36 cm
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- Marike Schuurman “Bergheider See 3-PH3, Toxic”, 2022, Inkjetprint on aluminium, framed in plexiglass box, 104 x 85 cm
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- Marike Schuurman “Bergheider See 3-PH3, Toxic” (detail), 2022, Inkjetprint on aluminium, framed in plexiglass box, 104 x 85 cm
The annual programme 2025
TERRA DIASPORA – ACTIVE TERRAINS
TERRA DIASPORA is the leitmotif of the Kunstverein Göttingen 2024–2025. In view of fundamental upheavals in the coexistence of nature and mankind, TERRA DIASPORA stands for a world on the move; for a terrain that is becoming increasingly alien to its inhabitants and for an earth on which people are becoming foreign bodies. It is an earth in a foreign land, a terra diaspora.
After the first part of the TERRA DIASPORA – WELTEN WANDELN programme series in 2024 explored contemporary forms of fantastic, figurative art, TERRA DIASPORA – ACTIVE TERRAINS is the Kunstverein’s current motto for 2025. As the second part of the comprehensive TERRA DIASPORA exhibition series, the fundamental distortions in the relationship between nature and man in our present day are shown and discussed here using real geographical case studies and the creative reaction of artists to precisely these conditions in Göttingen. This annual programme is also developed and supervised by curator Stephan Klee together with the participating artists and related curators.
We would like to thank our sponsors: Niedersächsische Sparkassen Stiftung, Sparkasse Göttingen, Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur, Stadt Göttingen, and Landschaftsverband Südniedersachsen e.V.
Datum
13. Juni (Freitag) - 21. September (Sonntag)
Veranstaltungsort
Kunstverein Göttingen im Alten Rathaus
Markt 9 | 37073 Göttingen
Öffnungszeiten
Tuesday – Sunday 11 am – 5 pm
26Jul(Jul 26)17:0007Sep(Sep 7)17:00Exhibition – Mélodie Mousset and Ittah YodaDander the Symbiocene
AKTIVES TERRAIN N°3 Mélodie Mousset and Ittah Yoda Dander the Symbiocene curated by Stephan Klee Programme Sat 26 Jul 5 pm Vernissage open till 8 pm Sun 24 Aug / Sun 31 Aug each at 3
AKTIVES TERRAIN N°3
Mélodie Mousset and Ittah Yoda
Dander the Symbiocene
curated by Stephan Klee
Programme
Sat 26 Jul 5 pm
Vernissage
open till 8 pm
Sun 24 Aug / Sun 31 Aug
each at 3 pm
Sunday Tour with Joos Ziegler
Sat 06 Sep 3 – 7 pm
The Long Afternoon of Art
with Guided Tour and Panel Talk
Sun 7 Sep 3 pm
Finissage
open till 5 pm
In order to be able to plan better, we look forward to receiving your reservations for individual programme items at info@kunstvereingoettingen.de or klee@kunstvereingoettingen.de or by telephone on 0551-44899
Event picture: Graphic by Stephan Klee, source: Alamy, all rights reserved by KV Göttingen
In summer 2025, artist Mélodie Mousset and art duo Virginie Ittah and Kai Yoda present a multimedia terrain on the first floor of the Künstlerhaus Göttingen that encloses the visitors and appeals to many senses, including touch and smell. The intertwining installations range from the origins of cave painting to virtually generated landscapes, played through VR glasses. One of the core works is the installation HanaHana by Swiss French artist Mélodie Mousset. This interactive virtual reality experience, which has been developed further over the years, offers guests the opportunity to walk through various virtual landscapes with the help of controllers, while actively shaping and generating them. The freedom, beauty and safety in HanaHana feels remarkable, and opens up a completely digitally generated alternative world, a material-free ‘safe space’ of a special kind.
HanaHana‘s simulation room will be embedded in a far-reaching exhibition design by the French-Japanese art duo Ittah Yoda. The two are working together to combine sculpture, painting and installation with technically advanced media such as LED screens, virtual reality and augmented reality. The two have coined the term ‘Symbiocene’ for these intertwined spaces between tangible materiality and digital vision, and they see their projects as utopian designs for a sustainable symbiosis of ecological cycles and technology.
Thematically, the exhibition offers an innovative examination of the visual culture of humans in Europe in their interaction with the surrounding landscape. As a source of inspiration, both positions share a fascination for the cave paintings of Lascoux and Chauvet and others, i.e. the first permanent images of the inhabitants of a region. These early testimonies can be understood as an act of self-assurance, as a permanent testimony to one’s own existence, as a visual archiving of fellow creatures or as cultic communication with the environment. These are all impulses that have always driven the creation of art. Inspired by these archaic testimonies of cultural self-empowerment, both Ittah Yoda and Mélodie Mousset explore in their works, among other things, the question: “How can the specificity of a territory be embodied today?” – “Or how can completely new imaginary terrains be created on the basis of our cultural history?” In their free, rather associative research, they largely detach themselves from real geographical conditions in comparison to other, more conceptual positions in the annual programme TERRA DIASPORA – ACTIVE TERRAINS. They negotiate concepts such as “landscape”, “place” and “production” more in dialogue with the anthropological and cultural appropriation of this theme by people in the course of cultural history. It is therefore more about the ideas of landscape than about current, actual geographical upheavals in the culmination of the Anthropocene. This exhibition thus not only adds important aspects to the annual programme, but also builds a bridge to the fantastic and surrealist tendencies of the 2024 TERRA DIASPORRA – WELTEN WANDELN annual programme.
In addition to our reliable supporting institutions, this time the additional support from the Lower Saxony Foundation and the Institut Français in particular enables the Kunstverein team to tackle and realise this exhibition concept at the cutting edge of technology and art in Göttingen.
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- Mélodie Mousset HanaHana, interactive 3D – Virtual Reality Simulation, 2017 – 2024, Photorights @ the artist and Fabbula.com, 2025
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- Ittah Yoda “Learning to fly”, 2025, installation view, MAC Lyon | Courtesy of the artists and Galerie Poggi, Paris | photo© Luca Meneghel | Copyright ©VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2025
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- Mélodie Mousset HanaHana, interactive 3D – Virtual Reality Simulation, 2017 – 2024, Photorights @ the artist and Fabbula.com, 2025
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- Ittah Yoda, Exhibition “Arcadia”, Bally Foundation, 2025 | Courtesy of the artists and Galerie Poggi, Paris | photo@ Andrea Rossettii | Copyright ©VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2025
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- Mélodie Mousset HanaHana, interactive 3D – Virtual Reality Simulation, 2017 – 2024, Photorights @ the artist and Fabbula.com, 2025
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- Ittah Yoda, Exhibition “Revenir du présent” at Collection Lambert, 2024 | Courtesy of the artists and Galerie Poggi, Paris | photo by Andrea Rossettii | Copyright ©VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2025
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- Mélodie Mousset HanaHana, interactive 3D – Virtual Reality Simulation, 2017 – 2024, Photorights @ the artist and Fabbula.com, 2025
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- Ittah Yoda, Exhibition “Arcadia”, Bally Foundation, 2025 | Courtesy of the artists and Galerie Poggi, Paris | photo by Andrea Rossettii | Copyright ©VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2025
VITA Mélodie Mousset
Mélodie Mousset (*1981, Abu Dhabi) is a French artist who lives and works in Zurich, Switzerland. Mousset’s works oscillate between virtual and physical worlds, focusing on the physicality of the human body and the potential virtuality of the mind. Mousset works with numerous media for her investigations around the body, including installation, performance, sculpture, photography, video and virtual reality.
Her work draws on personal biography to create playful and surreal narratives that explore the interactions between the self and technology. Her works are often intended to challenge the senses; elements are juxtaposed and transformed to create uncanny and whimsical assemblages in which the body becomes a site of physical and mental exchange with technology.
The artist studied at the École des Beaux-Arts de Rennes, the ECAL (Lausanne) and the Royal College of Arts (London) and completed her training in 2011 with a Master of Fine Arts at CalArts (California Institute of the Arts).
Her projects have been exhibited in galleries and institutions worldwide since 2010, including the MOCA (Museum Of Contemporary Arts, Los Angeles), the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, the MAC (Musée d’Art Contemporain, Lyon), The Metropolitan Art Society (Beirut) and the SALTS (Basel). In 2015, she was the winner of the Swiss Art Award. Her most recent work HanaHana, which was shown at the Zabludowicz Collection (London) in 2018, received seven awards, including the prize for the best artistic virtual reality experience at the VR Festival (Beijing), the prize for the best artistic achievement at the VR Days Festival 2017 and most recently the Visions Prize at the VR Arles Festival 2019. The artist’s most recent solo exhibitions included Intra-Aura at Last Tango (Zurich) in 2018. HanaHana was shown at Galerie V Glavnom (Tomsk, Russia) in 2018 and at Galerie Roehrs & Boetsch (Zurich) in 2019. She will soon be exhibiting at Swissnex (San Francisco).
more information >> https://fabbula.com/artists/hanahana-by-melodie-mousset/
VITA Ittah Yoda
The duo Ittah Yoda, consisting of Virgile Ittah and Kai Yoda, was formed after they met at the Royal College of London, where one was studying sculpture and the other photography and animation. From the beginning, they were fascinated by the natural and digital worlds and began working on the idea of a post-anthropocene world in which these two elements coexist harmoniously, what they call the ‘symbiosis’. While virtual reality occupies a central place in their work and serves as a matrix and maturation process, all the forms that later materialise in painting, sculpture and installation represent an ecosystem of their own, inspired by organic forms and materials and developed in collaboration with numerous artisans. Each of Ittah Yoda’s projects represents a step towards the realisation of this ideal symbiotic ecosystem, in which the media used and the objects created embody and transmit ‘genetic-artistic’ information from their environment. Although they are orientated towards an idea of the future, their work is rooted in art history, drawing in particular on references such as cave paintings and pigment painting techniques.
Recent exhibitions include Bally Foundation, Lugano (CH), ROH Projects, Jakarta (ID), Collection Lambert, Avignon (FR), CIAPV, Vassiviere (FR), Paris + by Art Basel, Paris (FR), the Armory Show, New York (US), the Rencontres d’Arles, Arles (FR), Poush Manifesto, Paris (FR), the Centre Culturel Jean Cocteau, Les Lilas (FR), the Musée des Beaux Arts d’Angers (FR), Hagiwara Projects, Tokyo (JP), Sprout Curation, Tokyo (JP), Cité International des Arts, Paris (FR), Frieze N°9 Cork Street, London (UK), ARCO Madrid, Madrid (ES), etc.
more information >> https://ittahyoda.com/
The annual programme 2025
TERRA DIASPORA – ACTIVE TERRAINS
TERRA DIASPORA is the leitmotif of the Kunstverein Göttingen 2024–2025. In view of fundamental upheavals in the coexistence of nature and mankind, TERRA DIASPORA stands for a world on the move; for a terrain that is becoming increasingly alien to its inhabitants and for an earth on which people are becoming foreign bodies. It is an earth in a foreign land, a terra diaspora.
After the first part of the TERRA DIASPORA – WELTEN WANDELN programme series in 2024 explored contemporary forms of fantastic, figurative art, TERRA DIASPORA – ACTIVE TERRAINS is the Kunstverein’s current motto for 2025. As the second part of the comprehensive TERRA DIASPORA exhibition series, the fundamental distortions in the relationship between nature and man in our present day are shown and discussed here using real geographical case studies and the creative reaction of artists to precisely these conditions in Göttingen. This annual programme is also developed and supervised by curator Stephan Klee together with the participating artists and related curators.
We would like to thank our sponsors:: , Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur, Siftung Niedersachsen, Stadt Göttingen, Sparkasse Göttingen, Landschaftsverband Südniedersachsen e.V. und Institut Français
Datum
26. Juli (Samstag) - 7. September (Sonntag)
Öffnungszeiten
Tue – Fri 2 pm – 6 pm
Sat + Sun 11 am – 5 pm
Oktober 2025
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