Series of talks and exhibitions 2024/2025

ALexis Dworsky, Björn Vedder and Eike Berg

In the framework of the project From Halle to Hungary and back in 40 years

12 September 2025, Friday 7 pm
Björn Vedder in conversation with Alexis Dworsky and Eike Berg
in German language - participation after prior registration

13-14 September 2025, Sat-Sun 1 - 6 pm
Exhibition of art works by Alexis Dworsky and Eike Berg
Visit by appointment

Alexis Dworsky and Eike Berg met in Freising in the 2010s and are both part of the art scene in the Munich metropolitan region. They share an interest in new technological developments such as the integration of AI (artificial intelligence) in image and video editing, as well as the playful and conceptual application of technologies for artistic content.

Björn Vedder has made a name as an art historian, philosopher and author of several books on the zeitgeist, as well as numerous essays in catalogues of well-known artists across Germany and beyond. He knows both artists through joint projects and an intensive exchange of ideas.

Björn Vedder

born in Brakel in 1976, North Rhine-Westphalia, lives and works as a curator and publicist in Herrsching am Ammersee
ww.bjoernvedder.de

Björn Vedder studied literature and philosophy at Ruhr University Bochum, Humboldt University Berlin and Bielefeld University, where he earned his doctorate in 2008 with a thesis on literature and visual arts. He writes about art, literature and philosophy, gives lectures, moderates events and curates exhibitions.

His most recent publications include Stephan Maria Lang, Living with Gardens, Hirmer 2025. Rosa. Vom Zauber einer Farbe (Rosa: The Magic of a Colour), Harper Collins 2025. Das Befinden auf dem Lande. Verortung einer Lebensart (The State of Being in the Countryside: Localising a Way of Life), Harper Collins 2024. Erik Schmidt, Retreat, Snoeck 2022. Vedder is also a columnist for Weltkunst.
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Alexis Dworsky

born in 1976 in Freising, lives and works in Freising near Munich, in Linz, and on the go
www.alexisdworsky.de

Alexis Dworsky studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich and earned a PhD on the cultural history of dinosaurs. He is an artist, researcher, and professor of Media Design at the University of Arts Linz. He travels the world using Google Street View and gives travel lectures about it, translates graffiti for the blind, and digitizes disappearing glaciers...
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Eike Berg

born in 1966 in Halle/Saale, lives in Freising near Munich
eike.qxd8.com

At the core of Eike Berg’s works is the question of the organization and nature of human knowledge and perception. His works navigate around these semantic centers with varying conceptual approaches and different genres, including video, installation, photography, computer art, and light art. His works share a focus on the element of change, usually examining on notions of the borderline or transgressions of borders: space and time, reality and abstraction.
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Works in the exhibition

Alexis Dworsky: Beyond Glaciation
2025, 3D rendering

This interdisciplinary art project explores the Goldbergkees, a rapidly melting glacier in Austria. The aim is to preserve this glacier – not in a physical sense, which seems hardly possible in view of global warming, but through digital reconstruction and transformation.

Using drones and microscopes, 3D models, the visualisation of measurement data and artificial intelligence, a virtual image of the glacier is created that goes far beyond its surface. The glacier is understood not as a dead mass of ice, but as a living, complex ecosystem that interweaves nature, culture, myth and science.

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Alexis Dworsky: Mäusebunker, 2025, 3D-Rendering

Alexis Dworsky: Mäusebunker (Mouse Bunker)
2025, 3D rendering; contour-cut print on aluminium Dibond, approx. 180x50 cm; 3D prints approx. 20x7x7 cm

Once the central animal testing laboratory at Berlin's Charité hospital, the 'Mouse BUnker', is an outstanding example of brutalist architecture in Germany. Neverless, the building is currently facing demolition. I am therefore engaged in digital monument preservation, generating a virtual model of the structure from hundreds of photos that can be reproduced using a 3D printer or augmented reality.

The views offer perspectives that cannot be perceived in the original. Sometimes the observer's viewpoint would be in the middle of a neighbouring building, sometimes the view would be obscured by trees, and some parts of the building are below ground level. Apart from that, you would have to be able to fly.

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Eike Berg: Origin
2024, digital photos, AI-assisted image processing, video projection

ORIGIN deals with memory and dreams as vehicles for deciphering a profound past experience that influences and shapes us in the present and future.

The video displays show night-time streets in light fog, some of them are pierced with green neon light. Sometimes the perspective leads into void, the angles are strangely distorted. The incompleteness of the images reflects a feature of human memory.

At the same time, ORIGIN is an example of the use of new technologies in which media-specific properties are used in a self-referential manner, thus forming a conceptual basis for the content of the work.

More information: www.eike.qxd8.com/ex/origin1

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