Guided tour: Between Earthly beings and the Unknown Cosmic World

The exhibition explores engaged and contemplative practices of Július Koller – his visions for more politically just and ecologically sound worlds - with the poetics of a variety of international artists.

The common denominator of the JKS archive and the contemporary art practice is “imaginative geography”. For Koller, its mainly his search for mythical Atlantis – the metaphoric movement from Mediterranean Sea to the Bermuda Triangle. For the exhibiting artists “imaginative geography” is a tool for navigating their relationship with countries’ boundaries, their constant shifting which complicates social and ecological solidarity. All the artists are very aware of the ecological danger: the water will raise and destroy existing societal relations, but how are they going to look like after the flood?

The exhibition tries to deepen critical awareness of the reciprocal interplay between archives, cosmohumanism, futurological thinking and alchemy. It points toward more regenerative life-relations. It brings alternative futures from the records of the past.
An epoch characterised by shifting terrains and receding shorelines, carbonised oceans and melting ice requires us to think differently about what will be left “after us”, what kind of archival record. On that account, the exhibition is also bringing forward some of the key issues surrounding archive in general – inert and active modes of resistance, transformative potential in expanding collective histories beyond the dominant modes of erasure as well as the embedded silence and repositories of a small selected portion of extremely complex past.
Free entry.