ECHOES. Skin Contact

Press release

Our annual live exhibition ECHOES continues to explore the interplay between the human body and mediated reality. In 2026, ECHOES returns from 30.1. to 8.2.26 with two multi-year research projects and a rich programme of performances, concerts, talks, and live video installations. Alongside the exhibition “For Children. Art Stories since 1968”, the fourth edition “ECHOES. Skin Contact” turns to coming-of-age in a world shaped by digital technologies and asks how we connect with one another, and with humans and non-humans alike.

Across two weekends, artists invite audiences into spheres of deep reflection with AI infants, amphibian oracles, spectral avatars, and voices of remembered kin, evoking the heightened emotions of coming-of-age: desire and doubt, yearning and uncertainty, solitude and self‑discovery.

The first week closes with a truly intimate moment hosted by artist and chef Angel Dimayuga, and the second week focuses on our relationship with nature. Artist Damsel Elysium will present a performance centring on the four elements, and musician Lechuga Zafiro invites visitors into his wide and complex rhythmic-timbral universe of field recordings from across South America.

Curated by Sarah Miles and Sarah Johanna Theurer.

Programme

Friday, 30.1.26
Kara-Lis Coverdale. Concert
Ed Atkins. Performance

Saturday, 31.1.26
Ed Atkins & Gabriel Abrantes. Artist Talk
7038634357. Concert
OMSK Social Club & Invernomuto. Artist Talk
OMSK Social Club. Listening Session
PILLBERT. Concert
Fine. Concert

Sunday, 1.2.26
Angel Dimayuga. Performance | Special Event

Friday, 6.2.26
Adam Linder. Performance & Artist Talk

Saturday, 7.2.26
Damsel Elysium & Lechuga Zafiro. Artist Talk
OMSK Social Club. Listening Session
Damsel Elysium. Performance
Lechuga Zafiro. Live Set
STILL. DJ Set

Sunday, 8.2.26
Malibu. Concert
Flow. Film Screening

Installations accessible free of charge in the context of ECHOES

Gabriel Abrantes. Bardo Loops (2024)
The multi-part video installation shows non-human beings grappling with very human situations.

Invernomuto. Triton (2024–2025)
The cross-media project is animated by the data stream of a live camera. It connects Haus der Kunst with a mythical amphibian colony in northern Italy. As both an instrument and an oracle, the project articulates a natural history informed by technological speculation.

Triton by Invernomuto and OUR BR00D by OMSK Social Club are two comissions of long-term research projects that Haus der Kunst presents within ECHOES:

OMSK Social Club. OUR BR00D (2025–2027)
An artistic experiment that explores forms of radical care and collective intelligence through study days, prototyping sessions, and role-playing games throughout 2026, culminating in ECHOES 2027.