The exhibition "new atlantis" focuses on international contemporary artists who address with culturally critical and optimistic approaches the idea of progress and its origin in utopias dedicated to the development and the impact of innovation. They constantly investigate new definitions of the materiality of our consumeristic society and its mechanisms of production. A select few are dealing with evolutionary development processes and are experimenting with the synthesizing of heterogeneous objects and their mutual influence.
Others reveal the importance of new technological additions and how they are used for authoritative purposes through the interaction between economic, politic and military spheres. The aesthetics of intelligent machines and expanded systems is hereby used to disclose the possibility for a diametric definition of their capabilities and functions. Therefore it is up to the viewer to decide on their inherent power as being good or evil.

Participating artists:
Francisco Montoya Cázarez
Luc Mattenberger
Antoine Renard
Gwenola Wagon & Stéphane Degoutin
Baden Pailthorpe
Oval Office
Anne de Vries
Bettina Pousttchi
Sarah Sweeney
Sascha Pohflepp & Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg

Curators: Elisa R Linn / Lennart Wolff / Judith Lavagna