Claudia Christoffel, Veronika Dobers, Brezel Göring, Manfred Kirschner, Gabriele Regiert und others

April to June 2026

Thematical groupshow with salon and performances

open: Tuesday to Friday 2-7pm and after appointment and to the events (see announcement)
Curator: Lydia Karstadt

“No Future Future!

The exhibition examines, in a field study, artistic reflections on current fears and moods about the future in a discursive form in an exhibition salon. The personal and artistic effects associated with the New Wave/Punk slogan “No Future” in the present day.

The counterculture slogan popular in the early 1980s, “No Future!”, was a provocative statement by the punk movement. Its prophetic warning has now, in the first years of the new millennium, come to pass. The complex problems identified in scientific predictions: environmental pollution, progressive species extinction, overpopulation, and aggressive exploitation of the planet remain unchanged
or have reached a drastic urgency due to climate change and the feedback of dynamic processes
such as the ice-albedo effect. New governments and autocratic rulers seem to simply ignore the knowledge and awareness of these threatening problems. In addition, we are threatened by numerous conflicts and wars. The belief in a change of thinking, a united concession by a cooperating global community to save our biosphere seems increasingly unrealistic in the face of wars and other conflicts.
The associations evoked by the phrase “No Future” conjure up a variety of scenarios of doom, through wars and/or the collapse of ecosystems, which will end the future of humanity. The words suddenly seem
completely realistic in a frightening and unexpected way.
In the exhibition salon of the same name, we would like to examine the ideas and strategies with which
artists are currently responding to and working with these images of the future.
What ideas do we have about our future? What can we do in art? How does the desire for change manifest itself? How can artistic work address this issue? Through actions and interactive performances, visitors’ ideas become a reflexive part of the exhibition.