[Reverberated]

OPENING PROGRAM:

Welcome by Rector Ulrike Kuch, Elisabeth Falkensteiner (AIL), Martin Reinhart (Art & Science) and participating artists

Performance by Leah Giertz
Performance by Laura Chalabi
Audio performance by Leonard Otterbein

Taking the physical phenomenon of reverberation as its conceptual point of departure, the exhibition explores how memories move across temporal, spatial, and technological contexts. Memory is never something fixed, but rather a living trace that unfolds over time. It continuously changes depending on context, interpretation, perception, and the ever-shifting present moment. Within this framework, the participating artworks investigate different modes of remembering: some address the role of images, storytelling, and artificial intelligence in shaping narratives of the past, while others engage with ecological and material traces: from disappearing species and botanical archives to residues embedded in landscapes and infrastructures.

Across these artistic approaches, [REVERBERATED] invites visitors to consider memory not as something simply preserved, but as something continuously produced through interactions between bodies, technologies, and environments. The exhibition thus explores how the past continues to reverberate within the systems of the present.

With contributions by:

Agustina Belén Agüero, Lobna Awidat, Phin Anibal, Rimon Alyagon Darr, Ronnie Danaher, Tatiana Del Valle, Hasti Ghasedi, Leah Barbara Mukui Giertz, Hanna Hofmann, Tal Horesh, Mauritius Itzinger, Laura Isselhorst, Dina Karaman, Moritz Klarer, Anna Buchner, Leonard Otterbein, David Ristić, Rajarshi Sarkar, Agnes Schyberg, Aryan Shahabian, Majedeh Shahvelayati, Mehrta Shirzadian, Pauline Simon, Laura Chalabi, People of Soil