April 27, 2023

At the invitation of the Wilhelmsburg Stoneware Museum, the Stachel artists’ group curates, designs and organizes the exhibition “Dystopoly. A metamorphic transhumanist journey to the daisies” in the historic rooms of the Wilhelmsburg Stoneware Factory of our time”.

Discuss the dystopian states

On an exhibition area of ​​1,500 square meters, eight rooms in the old attic “in a dissolved form of the canon of rules with the themes ‘Gaia Hypothesis’ and ‘Transhumanism’ become artistic freedom regarding the dystopian conditions of our earth – caused by the cognitive utopias of human civilizations”. it on the website of the Wilhelmsburg Tableware Museum.

The exhibition location was deliberately chosen. “In these historic rooms of the Wilhelmsburg stoneware factory – as humanistic contemporary witnesses of the aesthetics of decay and part of a complex contemporary historical system – former workplaces are still left as if the work had just finished, and they are made accessible to the public as artistically designed rooms .”

Dealing with the aesthetics of decay

The artist group Stachel sees itself as an interdisciplinary, artistic network, which – according to its manifesto – develops and implements artistic projects. The aesthetics of decay as a permanent process of a symbiotic cycle of life is the artistic content and expression of the artist group, according to the self-definition. The location of time in the “now” moment as the sum of all complex, virtual realities is the focal point of the artistic approach.

Since 2021, the Stachel artists’ group has been curating and designing exhibitions in the rooms of the Wilhelmsburg Stoneware Museum, in the first two years “Daisyworld”, since this year “Dystopoly. A Metamorphic Transhumanist Journey to the Daisies”. The website lists 37 artists who participated in “Dystopoly”, from very different genres such as painting, sculpture, ceramics, sculpture and installation, but also performance and body painting as well as animation and street art to poetry and song.

A Four Month Journey “To the Daisies”

May 1st is “Open Day”, five days later the official opening takes place. In the months of May, June, September and October there are numerous so-called art interventions from the musical, poetic, scenic, literary, visual and digital fields.

The exhibition “Dystopoly. A Metamorphic Transhumanist Journey to the Daisies is open through October 20th and closed July 1st through September 3rd. It can be visited every Friday from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., during art interventions and by prior arrangement. For more information, call 0677/634 71 533 on the website.