13 February – 26 April 2026
A cooperation between the Museum Angewandte Kunst and the saasfee*pavillon
Generative AI systems have become deeply embedded in our everyday lives and are increasingly shaping our ideas about society, the world and ourselves. Generated images, texts and videos create new worlds – based on selective data, often non-representative perspectives and economic interests. Worlding stands for the ongoing performative process that produces worlds and worldviews. Worlding is therefore never complete and always negotiable. Art is particularly well suited for simulating and reflecting on new worldings.
This ongoing process of worlding, especially through AI technologies, was the focus of this thematic group exhibition, which had been created in cooperation between the Museum Angewandte Kunst Frankfurt and saasfee*pavillon. An interdisciplinary team from the Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach led by Alex Oppermann (Professor of Electronic Media), Mattis Kuhn and Leon-Etienne Kühr (Head of AI Lab) and Natalie Wilke (Department of Electronic Media), in collaboration with students, combined artistic research with social reflection in this project.
The focus was on artistic experimentation as a research tool, on the one hand to make the limits of the supposedly unlimited possibilities of generative models tangible, and on the other hand to explore the constantly changing relationship between artists and AI systems: When are they merely tools, when are they co-creators, and where does their influence even become a determining factor for social and artistic processes? What influence do AI systems have on worldings, and conversely, can worldings change our interaction with these systems?
The exhibition comprised a variety of contemporary artistic positions developed specifically for the exhibition at the Museum Angewandte Kunst: performances, generated images and texts, paintings, video works, immersive spaces, and interactive sound and spatial installations.
Exhibiting artists:
allapopp, Anton Andrienko, Elisa Deutloff, Egor Dmitriev, Xiangyu Fu, Chelsea Hartmann, Marlon Hesse, Ava Leandra Kleber, Mattis Kuhn, Leon-Etienne Kühr, Max Kreis, Seongsin Lee, Ting-Chun Liu, June Pauli, saasfee* (Alex Oppermann & Al Dhanab), Evgeny Tverdokhlebov and Natalie Wilke.
The exhibition was a cooperation between Museum Angewandte Kunst and saasfee*pavillon and was supported by the Connectom Networking and Innovation Fund of hessian.AI & saasfee*pavillon.
The exhibition was accompanied by an exhibition catalog.
Edited and with contributions by allapopp, Anton Andrienko, Elisa Deutloff, Egor Dmitriev, Xiangyu Fu, Chelsea Hartmann, Marlon Hesse, Ava Leandra Kleber, Mattis Kuhn, Leon-Etienne Kühr, Max Kreis, Seongsin Lee, Ting-Chun Liu, June Pauli, saasfee* (Alex Oppermann & Al Dhanab), Evgeny Tverdokhlebov and Natalie Wilke.
German / English
148 pages
Softcover
You can purchase the exhibition catalog at the museum’s ticket office for 5 euro or download the digital version as a PDF document: AI-Worlding exhibition catalog
