AI-Worlding: Künstlerische Forschung zu KI-generierten Weltmodellen

AI-Worlding: Ausstellungseröffnung

Generative AI systems have become deeply embedded in our everyday lives and increasingly shape how we imagine society, the world, and ourselves. Generated images, texts, and videos create new worlds—based on selective data, often non-representative perspectives, and economic interests.

This ongoing process of AI-based worlding lies at the heart of a thematic group exhibition developed in cooperation between the Museum Angewandte Kunst and the saasfee*pavillon. An interdisciplinary team from the Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach—led by Alex Oppermann (Professor of Electronic Media), together with Mattis Kuhn and Leon-Etienne Kühr (Heads of the AI Lab), and Natalie Wilke (Electronic Media)—collaborates with students to connect artistic research with social reflection.

At the core of the project is artistic experimentation as a method of inquiry. It serves both to make tangible the limits of the supposedly boundless possibilities of generative models and to explore the constantly shifting relationship between artists and AI systems: When do these systems function merely as tools? When do they become co-creators? And where does their agency become a determining force in social and artistic processes—and how, in turn, does AI-driven worlding influence these dynamics?

The exhibition brings together a wide range of contemporary artistic positions, developed specifically for the presentation at the Museum Angewandte Kunst. It features performances, generated images, paintings, video works, immersive environments, and interactive sound and spatial installations.

Exhibiting artists: 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 is supported by the Connectom Networking and Innovation Fund of hessian.AI & saasfee*pavillon e.v.