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september 15, 2023 - Museion

HOPE - Curated by Bart van der Heide and Leonie Radine in collaboration with DeForrest Brown, Jr.


HOPE marks the third chapter of TECHNO HUMANITIES with an international research group consisting of #bartvanderheide, #leonieradine, DeForrest Brown, Jr., and Museion Passage Group

Exhibition design by Diogo Passarinho Studio

Museion in #bolzano, Italy, presents HOPE, an international group exhibition exploring spaces of hope between #science and fiction, curated by #bartvanderheide and #leonieradine in collaboration with musician, theorist, and writer DeForrest Brown, Jr. As the final installment of the TECHNO HUMANITIES trilogy, HOPE probes the close alliance between museums and the humanities as sites of active world-building. The exhibition, which occupies the entirety of the museum, includes works from an intergenerational cohort of artists. It is further supported by an anthology of newly commissioned critical texts as well as a rich mediation and event program.

Ever since opening its doors exactly 15 years ago, the #museion building has been repeatedly described as alien, a UFO that landed in the center of #bolzano. HOPE endorses the view of the museum as a spaceship, a time capsule, a portal to another dimension. The exhibition will transform #museion into a production site of wonder, merging #science and fiction to evoke hope through individual and collective imaginations of futures and pasts. As Philosopher Ernst Bloch wrote in the introduction of his Principle of Hope (1954): “We need the most powerful telescope, that of polished utopian consciousness,” to penetrate the darkness.

HOPE invites visitors to move between real and imagined spaces and times to try on alternative viewpoints. The exhibition architecture suggests an upside-down, non-linear path through the building, leading first to the fourth floor, which showcases various artistic time capsules in an observatory-like setting. By proceeding through individual and collective artistic cosmologies, the self and the other are open for exploration beyond a humancentric worldview. Here, the selection of artworks creates a sci-fi atmosphere between apocalyptic scenarios and new beginnings at the intersection of the humanities, technology, ecology, and economy.

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