Duration
29.5.26, 4:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Location
Auditorium
Language
English
Admission
Free admission, no registration required
Info
We warmly invite you to the first public event of Neutrinos & Dark Matter, a project developed together by the Academy of Fine Arts Munich (AdBK), the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and Haus der Kunst München. The experimental format brings together young artists from AdBK and astrophysicists from TUM in an ongoing shared process of research and exchange that began in 2025. Neutrinos & Dark Matter approaches astrophysics as a field of imagination, perception, and encounter, where scientific instruments, invisible particles, environments, and human presence come into relation. Conceived as a series of temporary interventions, the project will continue to unfold over the coming years within Open Haus, opening conversations around forms of knowledge, the unknown, and how we experience worlds beyond direct visibility together with the public.
With contributions by
Anastasiia Batishcheva, Sofian Biazzi, Estelle Blaschke, Nina Caviezel, Rosanna Deckert, Matteo Giacomelli, Jiangyue Guo, Michael Hock, Armin Linke, Sofia Lonardi, Nicolas Maximilian, Camilla Prey, Selina Rudolph, Alexandra Scholz, Jiwon Song, Janis Strobl, Kristian Tchiorniy.
Neutrinos & Dark Matter is presented by the Academy of Fine Arts Munich, the Collaborative Research Centre 1258 ‘Neutrinos and Dark Matter in Astro- and Particle Physics’ at the Technical University of Munich, the University of Basel and Radio 80000, in collaboration with Haus der Kunst München. Funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG).
Coordinating curator is Katrin Bauer, Academy of Fine Arts Munich, in close coordination with photography and video artist Armin Linke, Professor of Photography at AdBK, and Andrea Lissoni, Artistic Director of Haus der Kunst München.
With many thanks to Alexandra Pirici, Florian Hecker and Francis Hunger.
Programme
4 – 5 pm | Jiangyue Guo, Sofian Biazzi, Rosanna Deckert, Michael Hock & Camilla Prey. Wind from the Emptiness (空穴来风)
Unfolding as a social score led by the artist through Haus der Kunst, the mixed-media reading performance approaches the vacuum as both a culturally constructed condition and physical phenomenon. Drawing on the 18th-century painting An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump, as well as Chinese folklore, it refers to an invisible wind generated through emptiness, suggesting that nothing emerges without an origin.
Please note: The performance begins in the entrance hall. It then moves through the terrace and outdoor areas before returning to the auditorium. Capacity is limited. A second performance will be held at 8:15 PM.
4 – 7 pm | Jiwon Song & Selina Rudolph. The Chances of Scattering
Neutrinos emerge from some of the universe’s most energetic cosmic events. Though trillions pass through our bodies each second, they are incredibly difficult to detect. Similar to invisible beings that escape our perception, they are also described as “ghost particles”. This participatory sculpture approaches the neutrino as a speculative material protagonist shaped by coincidence and scattering. Through an open-ended process involving the gradual melting of ghost-shaped ice onto paper, the work traces the subtle tremors neutrinos leave behind. Everyone is invited to join and co-create the foundations of Jiwon Song’s forthcoming art publication.
5 – 5.15 pm | Introduction
With Armin Linke (Photography and video artist, Professor of Photography, AdBK), Elisa Resconi (Professor of Experimental Physics with Cosmic Radiation at TUM and spokesperson for SFB1258) and Margarita Shabaeva (Advisor to the Artistic Director/Special Projects, Haus der Kunst München)
5.15 – 5.30 pm | Alexandra Scholz & Kristian Tchiorniy. The Ghost Chamber
Moving through the frictions of scientific speculation, the performative reading frames invisible particles and coded transmissions from so-called number stations as intertwined forms of nonhuman communication. Questions arise as to whether we merely seek patterns and connections or if nature inherently repeats itself to a point of absurdity.
5.30 – 6 pm | Estelle Blaschke & Armin Linke. Impossible Images
In their lecture performance, Estelle Blaschke (historian of photography) and Armin Linke (photo and video artist) delve into the visual and rhetorical frameworks of neutrinos – elusive particles that resist direct representation. Drawing from historical material, alongside references from pop culture, their dialogue traces the various ways through which scientific information is translated into image form.
6.10 – 6.20 pm | Matteo Giacomelli. situated ladders (excerpt)
Shaped by resonance, miscommunication, and noise, the polyphonic live sculpture situated ladders dissects the linguistic registers within which astrophysics’ knowledge is constrained. The assembled ladders become an embodied diagram within which performers reframe textual fragments from scientific papers documenting experiments aimed at detecting neutrinos. With contributions by Mim Ansell and Irene Cuevas.
6.30 – 7 pm | Nina Caviezel & Rosanna Deckert. Cleanroom Choreography
In their lecture performance, physicist Rosanna Deckert and artist-researcher Nina Caviezel explore the cleanroom as a central site of contemporary scientific research. Drawing on their multiple laboratory visits at CERN, LNGS, and TUM, their work deconstructs the cleanroom as a highly controlled environment in both visual and textual form, foregrounding its embodied practices of knowledge production and the architectural spaces that shape how scientists grasp the unknown.
7.15 – 8 pm | Artist Talk with Anastasiia Batishcheva, Sofian Biazzi, Nicolas Maximilian, Selina Rudolph, Jiwon Song, Janis Strobl, Kristian Tchiorniy
In this conversation, artists and astrophysicists will shed light on some of the themes that inspire their interdisciplinary research. Together, they will look back on their mutual collaborations and share their understanding of entangling artistic engagement with scientific research. Moderated by Katrin Bauer (curator Neutrinos & Dark Matter, AdBK).
8.15 – 9 pm | Jiangyue Guo, Sofian Biazzi, Rosanna Deckert, Michael Hock and Camilla Prey. Wind from the Emptiness (空穴来风)
8.30 – 10 pm | Radio 80000 LIVE Set by Hanno and Nil
