Laufende Termine

Unfinished Reality

10. April – 5. Juni 2026
Gruppenausstellung, United Art Museum, Wuhan

Well informed. Badly disposed.

15. März – 24. Mai 2026
Gruppenausstellung, Galerie Eigenheim, Weimar

Well informed. Badly disposed.
Doomscrolling, Negativbias und die sozialen Herausforderungen

Ort EIGENHEIM Weimar, Asbachstraße 1, 99423 Weimar / Eröffnung 14.03.2026 um 19 Uhr mit dem DJ Set Druck – Resonanz – Kontrollverlust von Christoph Höfferl / Dauer 15.03.2025 – 25.04.2026

beteiligte KĂŒnstler*innen: Anna Bittersohl, Aram Bartholl, Simon Baumgart, Jonas Blume, Benedikt Braun, Elisa Jule Braun, Paolo Cirio, Ben Grosser, Esra GĂŒlmen, Susanne Junker, Philipp Kummer, Marc Lee, Kayla Mattes, Signe Pierce, Theresa Rothe, Michal Schmidt, Stefan Schiek

Der Auftakt des Jahresprogramms, das sich Zuversicht, PositivitĂ€t und kollektiver Lebensfreude widmet, wird durch die Ausstellung „Well informed. Badly disposed.“ markiert. Zugleich versteht sich diese erste Ausstellung als bewusste Problemanalyse: Sie benennt die Bedingungen, unter denen ein positives Jahresthema heute nicht naiv, sondern notwendig erscheint – als Haltung, um zunehmender Polarisierung, Emotionalisierung und politischer Vereinnahmung von Information etwas entgegenzusetzen.

Im Zentrum stehen die Mechanismen von Doomscrolling und Negativbias – PhĂ€nomene, die unsere Wahrnehmung, unsere Stimmung und zunehmend auch den gesellschaftlichen Diskurs prĂ€gen. Eine immersive, dĂŒster-dystopische Ausstellungskulisse definiert einen bewusst abstoßenden Raum und schafft einen von ReizĂŒberflutung geprĂ€gten Erfahrungsrahmen, der Angst, Erschöpfung, Ekel und AbgrĂŒndigkeit vermittelt. Die Ausstellung macht jene emotionale Überforderung erfahrbar, die aus der permanenten Konfrontation mit negativen Nachrichten entsteht.

KĂŒnstlerische Positionen untersuchen, wie digitale InformationsflĂŒsse, soziale Medien und algorithmische Logiken unser Denken und FĂŒhlen beeinflussen. Dabei wird deutlich: Plattformen sind nicht neutral. Sie spiegeln ökonomische und politische MachtverhĂ€ltnisse wider, verstĂ€rken Polarisierungen und prĂ€gen demokratische Öffentlichkeiten weltweit. Zugleich zeigt sich, dass individuelle Mediennutzung eng mit Fragen von Verantwortung, Vertrauen und Bildung verknĂŒpft ist. Die Ausstellung macht sichtbar, wie stark wir dazu neigen, das Negative stĂ€rker zu gewichten als das Positive – und wie soziale Medien und Informationsplattformen diesen Bias gezielt nutzen, um Aufmerksamkeit zu maximieren.

„Well informed. Badly disposed.“ beleuchtet bewusst die negativen EinflĂŒsse unserer medialen Umwelt und macht zugleich neugierig auf die weiteren Ausstellungen des Jahresthemas. Sie eröffnet den notwendigen Kontrast, um die Kraft der Zuversicht in den folgenden Projekten umso stĂ€rker erfahrbar werden zu lassen. So bildet diese erste Ausstellung den kritischen Auftakt fĂŒr ein Programm, das Schritt fĂŒr Schritt Perspektiven auf Optimismus, Empathie und kollektive Freude entfaltet.

Moi et les autres

12. März – 13. September 2026
Gruppenausstellung, Fondation EDF, Paris

By occupying nearly a third of our waking hours, screens are profoundly reshaping the contours of our relationships with others. In response, numerous journalistic and academic discourses echo concerns about the digital migration of our social lives: the idea frequently arises that the socio-technical systems at work in this migration are making us more resistant to diversity.

Our intention is to nuance this concern by acknowledging a foundational aspect of the internet—its original design to facilitate the virtuous and unprecedented emergence of communities of specific interests, often far more specialized than what our traditional offline social circles can accommodate. This utopia inevitably carries a tension between, on the one hand, the benefits of more efficient and far-reaching sociability, and on the other, the widely discussed risks of a social life limited to alters who are most similar to ourselves.

Curated by AurĂ©lie ClĂ©mente-Ruiz, director of the MusĂ©e de l’Homme in Paris, and Camille Roth, a researcher at CNRS in social sciences.

With: Nicolas Bailleul, Aram Bartholl, LĂ©a Belloousovitch, NeĂŻl Beloufa, Sophie Calle, Paola Ciarska, Laurent Grasso, Juliette Green, Ben Grosser, ÖzgĂŒr Kar, BĂ©atrice Lartigue, Lauren Lee MacCarthy, Katherine Longly, Randa Maroufi, Magalie Mobetie, Martine Neddam, Philippe Parreno, Françoise PĂ©trovitch, Valentina Peri, Marilou Poncin, Jeanne Suspuglas

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Today Is a Good Day to Discuss Digital Rights

20. November 2025 – 3. Mai 2026
Gruppenausstellung, Fundacion Telefonica, Madrid

A look at how our online practices leave a trace and shape our rights. Drawing on the Charter of Digital Rights (2021), the exhibition explores seven key areas with humour and everyday examples. Framed within the Observatory of Digital Rights and curated by FundaciĂłn TelefĂłnica and Domestic Data Streamers, the show encourages reflection and debate around the safe, responsible, critical, and creative use of technology.

We accept cookies as if they were freshly baked biscuits, without having the slightest idea of what ingredients they contain. We share photos of our children’s birthdays or family trips as if they were WhatsApp stickers, without knowing where they might end up. We use the same password for our bank account and our grocery app (spoiler: not a good idea). We check a website to see if it’s going to rain, only to give away our data like candy on Halloween.

The exhibition Today Is a Good Day to Discuss Digital Rights seeks to raise awareness about the rights and duties that citizens exercise and develop in the digital sphere. Moreover, the show invites us to keep debating and building a system of guarantees around the digital ecosystem — a kind of ethical guide that helps us understand what digital rights and duties are, what they imply, and the opportunities the technological environment offers citizens.

Framed within the initiative of the Observatory of Digital Rights and curated by Fundación Telefónicatogether with the artistic collective Domestic Data Streamers — which presents six installations —, the exhibition features works by contemporary artists such as United Visual Artists, Eva & Franco Mattes, Paolo Cirio, Noemí Iglesias Barrios, Theresa Reiwer, Hasan Elahi, and Aram Bartholl, among others. Their works challenge visitors, help them understand, and encourage reflection on our actions as digital beings. A much-needed exhibition, it fuels the debate around digital rights and duties, and calls for a safe, responsible, critical, and creative use of technology. Because today is a good day to discuss Digital Rights.

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Kommende Termine

Grand Snail Tour

10. – 11. September 2026
Gruppenausstellung, Urbane KĂŒnste Ruhr, Hattingen

The Grand Snail Tour activates public spaces in the region through artistic formats of exchange, participation, and co-production – often in collaboration with local actors. Over the course of three years, it will travel through all 53 cities in the Ruhr region. The project addresses important questions of social coexistence in an experimental and innovative way: Who owns public space and how can we create places for communal activities or activate existing spaces? What role does art play in this? The Grand Snail Tour aims to leave a variety of impressions, offer shared experiences and invite people to join the journey.

Self Storage

6. – 10. Mai 2026
Gruppenausstellung, Galerie Ellia, Paris

We are made of memory, but memory itself is a fiction 

The exhibition Self Storage investigates how individuals construct identity through personal and intimate recollections, as well as through the technical and social systems that shape their traces. Memory is not an objective recording: it is an assemblage, a selective construction built from both forgetting and persistence. A memory emerges within a space shaped by desire, loss, and reconstruction. Self Storage foregrounds this subjective and unstable dimension of remembering. Diaries, family archives, obsolete technologies, and bodily reminiscences become raw materials to examine the materiality of memory and its capacity for reinvention.

Hard drives, clouds, online profi les, and social networks are gradually replacing notebooks and photo albums. This massive externalization questions the boundary between private memory and public exposure, between lived traces and standardized data. Self Storage extends this inquiry into a contemporary era where identity is stored, outsourced, and endlessly duplicated. Through the works assembled, the exhibition off ers a poetic and critical drift between real and invented memory, intimate and externalized. It prompts us to consider: What do we need to retain? What do we choose to forget? And what becomes of the “self” when it is reduced to archives, content, and imprints?

curation : Nicolas de Chérisey & Philippine de Salaberry in collaboration with Ellia gallery

participating artists:
JoĂ«l Andrianomearisoa, Maxime Antony, Marcella BarcelĂł, Aram Bartholl, Federica Belli, Matthias Bitzer, Borgial, Victor Boyer, AmĂ©lie Caussade, SalomĂ© Chatriot, Coucou BĂ©bĂ©, Nick Coutsier, Fleur Cozic, Paul CrĂ©ange, Corentin DarrĂ©, Oli Epp, LĂ©onor Fini, Nan Goldin, Gregor Hildebrandt, Ryoji Ikeda, Victoire InchauspĂ©, ÉloĂŻse Labarbe-Lafon, Octave Lauret, Louis Lekien, InĂšs Longevial, Keegan Luttrell, Shiva Lynn Burgos, Matisse Mesnil, Sabine Mirlesse, Polina Osipova, Louise des Places, JosĂ©phine de Rohan-Chabot, Philippine de Salaberry, Tehotu, Egon Thuile, Thu-Van Tran, Louis Verret, Francesco Vezzoli, Rose Vidal, Xolo Cuintle, Kai Yoda, Yugnat999.

Vergangene Termine

readOn Konferenz

31. März 2026
Talk, LUX Pavillon, Hochschule Mainz, Mainz

Am 31. MÀrz findet im LUX Pavillon der Hochschule Mainz die ganztÀgige, vierte Ausgabe der readOn Konferenz unter dem Titel AT THE EDGE OF KNOWING statt.

Die Konferenz richtet den Blick auf jene Momente, in denen Wissen brĂŒchig wird – wenn sich zwischen Gewissheit und Vermutung, Erkenntnis und Ahnung ein offener Raum auftut. Ein Raum, der sich eindeutigen Definitionen entzieht: Fragen werden wichtiger als Antworten, Prozesse bedeutsamer als Ergebnisse – und Unsicherheit erscheint nicht als Mangel, sondern als produktive Kraft.

AT THE EDGE OF KNOWING lĂ€dt dazu ein, diese Schwelle des Verstehens bewusst zu betreten. Gemeinsam suchen wir nach neuen Perspektiven auf Gestaltung, Begegnung und das Denken möglicher ZukĂŒnfte. Nicht-Wissen wird dabei nicht umgangen, sondern als Ausgangspunkt ernst genommen.

In VortrĂ€gen und Diskussionen untersuchen geladene GĂ€ste, welche Rolle Unsicherheit in gestalterischen Prozessen, in der Forschung und in unserer Haltung zur Zukunft spielen kann. Die Konferenz versteht sich nicht als abgeschlossener Zustand, sondern als Reflexion eines Prozesses, der sich in die Ungewissheit hinein entfaltet – und lĂ€dt dazu ein, gemeinsam an den Rand des Wissens zu treten und die Weite des Unscharfen zu erkunden. In ungewissen Zeiten möchten wir Raum schaffen, um zusammenzukommen – und statt am scheinbar Sicheren festzuhalten, bewusst loszulassen und neu zu denken. Die Teilnahme ist gegen eine freiwillige Spende möglich.

Organisiert von den Studierenden des Masterstudiengangs Kommunikationsdesign der Hochschule Mainz.

Bring Your Phone!: TOUCH FARM

16. Januar 2026
Curatorial, panke.gallery, Berlin

đŸ€łđŸŸBring Your Phone! : TOUCH FARM đŸŒŸđŸ‘©â€đŸŒŸ reclaims the idea of the farm for the screen age. If farming once organized land, labor, and life, today it organizes attention and clout. TOUCH FARM takes the architecture of click farms and flips it from extraction to participation.

Bring your phone. Exhibit your work. Everyone participates.
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Curated by @arambartholl & @socratesstamatatos.

🎉 #Vorspiel 2026 Opening Party at @panke.gallery

📍panke.gallery, Friday, 16 January 2026 at 7 PM (Gerichtstr. 23, Hof 5, 13347 Berlin)

Spazi di Transizione

9. – 11. Dezember 2025
Talk, Spazio Murat, Bari

Blog Archiv fĂŒr Schlagwort: offlineart

You are not checked in

Januar 14, 2015

you-are-not-checked-in-transmediale-2015

Offline Art: ‚Your are not checked in‘

at ‚Capture All!‘, Transmediale, Berlin, 28.1.-1.2. 2015
curated by Aram Bartholl
Six positions capturing the state of social, mobile and post anything.
High Retention – Slow Delivery!!
Constant Dullaart, video 10:00 min, 2014
Artificial quantified social capital redistributed, Social media Socialism. 2.5 million Instagram followers were bought and distributed amongst a personal selection of the art-world active on Instagram.
A Letter To Young Internet Artists
Emilie Gervais, website, 2014
Art movements are as irrelevant as categorizing art under medium labels, because 2014 is about life.
Anti-social media protest
Citizens Against Social Media, protest, 2014
PROTEST AT THE SOCIAL MEDIA WEEK ROTTERDAM 2014
*PLSS
Claudia Mate, video, 2:12min,  2014
Portable Life Support System for the contemporary man.
lotru-on-hotpink.com – No Original Research series
Evan Roth, website, 2014
A series of websites, each created from a single animation and audio file found on wikipedia.org
Excellences & Perfections Video Essay
Amalia Ulman, video, 10:31min, 2014
A scripted online performance on Instagram and Facebook.
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The OFFLINE ART exhibition format:
Browser-based digital art works are broadcast locally from wifi routers which are not connected to the Internet. Each art work is assigned a single wifi router which is accessible through any device, like smart-phones, tablets or laptops. To access the different art works, the visitor has to connect to each network individually. The name of the network reflects the name of the artist. No matter what URL is opened, only the specific artwork appears in the browser. A small web server holding the art piece is installed on a USB flash drive which is connected to the router. Like frames holding the art, the routers are hung in the exhibition space which is otherwise empty. The art i tself becomes visible only on the visitor’s private screen.The pieces are locally widely accessible but disconnected from the Internet.
prior show in the offline art exhibition format at xpo gallery 2013


OFFLINE ART: Hardcore – documentation

September 9, 2013

THX everyone! The show came out really cool! Perfect setup and beautiful hardcore Netart!! :)) More about the OFFLINE ART exhibition format can be found here and an opening speech by Olia Lialina for the first edition is here.

OFFLINE ART: Hardcore
Kasseler Kunstverein, Kassel, Germany
August 30  – October 13 2013
curated by Aram Bartholl
‘Hardcore’ features a selected group of artists representing a wide range of radical approaches contrasting the mainstream idea of the digital image and web culture. Referring to subcultures in music during the 80s & 90s todays hardcore attitude can be found in various media and genres on the Internet. In the glossy controlled era of Facebook, Apple, and Google hardcore artists challenge conventions with radical points of view and hard core works.
production: Klara Pietrzak
code: Matthias Strubel
credits: xpo gallery








All pictures on flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bartholl/sets/72157635466755374/
with:
CONSTANT DULLAART
TOS (2013)
video
DEANNA HAVAS
Found Abstract Renders (2012)
Digital Image, .PNG
EI JANE JANET LIN in collaboration with MIAO JIAXIN
Collaborations #3 (2010)
video
EVA AND FRANCO MATTES aka 0100101110101101.org
Emily’s Video, extract (2012)
video
EVAN ROTH
http://kamasutra-on-dimgray.com (2013)
website
JODI
???? Representing  6′  Rainer Brendel  (2013)
website
JON CATES
(k)NEW.ERR▷ (2013)
HTML
LORNA MILLS
PUNCH (2013)
found animated gif collage
JEREMIAH JOHNSON
Enduring Potential (2013)
Website
PENELOPE UMBRICO
TV from Craigslist (2008- ongoing)
digital files of various sizes
ROSA MENKMAN
Beyond Resolution (2013)
website
SAKROWSKI aka. CuratingYouTube
CM-Version 2013 (2013)
video 18 min
UBERMORGEN
YouTube Comments (2013)
PNG, MKV
VUK ĆOSIĆ
Documenta DONE (1997)
website
The OFFLINE ART exhibition format:
Browser-based digital art works are broadcast locally from wifi routers which are not connected to the Internet. Each art work is assigned a single wifi router which is accessible through any device, like smart-phones, tablets or laptops. To access the different art works, the visitor has to connect to each network individually. The name of the network reflects the name of the artist. No matter what URL is opened, only the specific artwork appears in the browser. A small web server holding the art piece is installed on a USB flash drive which is connected to the router. Like frames holding the art, the routers are hung in the exhibition space which is otherwise empty. The art i tself becomes visible only on the visitor’s private screen.The pieces are locally widely accessible but disconnected from the Internet
Aram Bartholl 2013

OFFLINE ART: Hardcore

August 7, 2013

OFFLINE ART: Hardcore

Kasseler Kunstverein, Kassel, Germany
August 30  – October 13 2013
Opening August 29, 7pm, rsvp on fb

curated by Aram Bartholl

‘Hardcore’ features a selected group of artists representing a wide range of radical approaches contrasting the mainstream idea of the digital image and web culture. Referring to subcultures in music during the 80s & 90s todays hardcore attitude can be found in various media and genres on the Internet. In the glossy controlled era of Facebook, Apple, and Google hardcore artists challenge conventions with radical points of view and hard core works.

with:
Constant Dullaart
Deanna Havas
Ei Jane Janet Lin
Eva & Franco Mattes aka 0100101110101101.org
Evan Roth
JODI
Jon Cates
Lorna Mills
Jeremiah Johnson
Penelope Umbrico
Rosa Menkman
Sakrowski aka curatingYouTube
UBERMORGEN
Vuk Ćosić

production: Klara Pietrzak
code: Matthias Strubel
credits: xpo gallery

The show will take place parallel to Aram Bartholls solo show „Hello World!“ at Kasseler Kunstverein in the same period of time.

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The OFFLINE ART exhibition format:

Browser-based digital art works are broadcast locally from wifi routers which are not connected to the Internet.  Each art work is assigned a single wifi router which is accessible through any device, like smart-phones, tablets or laptops.  To access the different art works, the visitor has to connect to each network individually. The name of the network reflects the name of the artist. No matter what URL is opened, only the specific artwork appears in the browser. A small web server holding the art piece is installed on a USB flash drive which is connected to the router. Like frames holding the art, the routers are hung in the exhibition space which is otherwise empty. The art i tself becomes visible only on the visitor’s private screen.The pieces are locally widely accessible but disconnected from the Internet

see also the documentation of the first OFFLINE ART show new2 at xpo gallery Feb 2013 http://datenform.de/offline-art-new2-eng.html

Offline Art @ Libération

Februar 28, 2013


Also as text at http://www.ecrans.fr/Offline-Art-il-faut-savoir-reseaux,16024.html
Thx to Marie Lechner for the great piece!!

Pictures OFFLINE ART: new2 Paris

Februar 26, 2013

Flickr picture set of OFFLINE ART: new2 opening at xpo gallery in Paris last Thursday. The opening was magic! Thx to all the artist taking part in this experiment! Thx to xpo gallery for making this possible! Thx to Olia Lialina for the fabulous opening speech! Thx everyone!
 











http://www.flickr.com/photos/bartholl/sets/72157632855770234/show/

OFFLINE ART: new2

Januar 19, 2013

Upate: Picture documentation of the show here

I am very pleased to announce this upcoming show I curated for xpo gallery. The exhibition format is inspired by David Dart’s Piratebox. OFFLINE ART is some sort of cross-over of Speed Shows and Dead Drops bur still very different :)). Tech specs and software to be released soon! Credits to Matthias Strubel for code! Thx!!
CU there everyone!!

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save the date
21st February
Paris

SAVE THE DATE
Xpo Gallery is pleased  to announce the next exhibtion

OFFLINE ART: new2

curated by Aram Bartholl

participating artists : Cory Arcangel, Kim Asendorf, Claude Closky, Constant Dullaart, Dragan Espenschied, Faith Holland, JODI, Olia Lialina, Jonas Lund, Evan Roth, Phil Thompson, Emilie Gervais & Sarah Weis

Opening Thursday 21st  February, 6.30-9.30pm
7:00pm Introduction by Prof. Olia Lialina

exhibition until Saturday 14th March  2013
XPO GALLERY  17, rue Notre-Dame de Nazareth – 75003 Paris

new2 is the first show realized in the OFFLINE ART exhibition format.
Web based art works will be accessible via wireless network but disconnected from the internet .A high profile selection of 14 artists of various ‚Internet generations‘ – who are all working digitally and online – will present  recent and new works. OFFLINE ART: new2 is a group show all about files, versions and copies that questions the endless ’new‘ in our era of the daily remix on the Internet. A digital file can be copied endlessly, without any loss of quality, and the web culture of nonstop creation, sharing and remixing of files has influenced a whole generation of artists.Over the last two decades, internet artists have been constantly and prolifically creating web-based works.  Often files are collected online, reused, recycled and remixed in varied and numerous ways. The next version is called ‚…-new.gif‘ but is already outdated 5 minutes later, with the arrival of  ‚…new2.gif‘. Computers and the Internet don’t require a final version. ‚I still need to make some changes….‘.What is the current state of net art and what happens when works are taken offline??
What is the correct format in which to show a piece of art in a gallery space that has only previously existed on the web? And what is the relationship between internet art and the ever-growing number of mobile devices?OFFLINE ART: new2 reflects recent discussions among artists and curators on how and if pieces should be available offline. All pieces in this show are browser based and at the same time only locally accessible. In the end it is the decision of each artist how and which version will also be available on the INTERNET.
The OFFLINE ART exhibition format:
Browser-based digital art works are broadcast locally from wifi routers which are not connected to the Internet.  Each art work is assigned a single wifi router which is accessible through any device, like smart-phones, tablets or laptops.  To access the different art works, the visitor has to connect to each network individually. The name of the network reflects the name of the artist. No matter what URL is opened, only the specific artwork appears in the browser. A small web server holding the art piece is installed on a USB flash drive which is connected to the router. Like frames holding the art, the routers are hung in the exhibition space which is otherwise empty. The art i tself becomes visible only on the visitor’s private screen.The pieces are locally widely accessible but disconnected from the Internet
Aram Bartholl 2013
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