Tomás Saraceno. Ancestral Futures
When the Llama Drinks from the Stars and the Spider Weaves Cycles of Life,
Where the Sky Touches the Earth and Time Expands Like Salt,
the Sanctuary of Water Are Fair Clouds on the Horizon.
Press Release
Tomás Saraceno (b. 1973, San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina) bridges art, architecture, and science to imagine possible eco-social futures. This new exhibition brings together two central strands of Saraceno’s long-term research – Aerocene and Arachnophilia – alongside a new commission developed in close collaboration with the Indigenous communities of Las Salinas Grandes in northern Argentina. Their ongoing struggle against lithium extraction, and the pressure it places on the region’s water cycles, becomes the starting point for an artwork that reaches beyond the exhibition space. At Haus der Kunst, these ideas materialise in air-fuelled sculptures, shared multispecies habitats, and spatial environments that invite new forms of attention. The exhibition transforms the building into a space for planetary attunement, inviting visitors to inhabit the museum differently.
Curated by Sarah Johanna Theurer and Andrea Lissoni.
Duration
17.7.26–7.2.27
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Tomás Saraceno
The Three Worlds of Pacha, 2026
© Photo: Studio Tomás Saraceno
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Tomás Saraceno
The Sanctuary of Water, 2026
Conceived by artist Tomás Saraceno with the 11 Indigenous communities of the Red Atacama network, Salinas Grandes, northern Argentina.
With the generous support of Haus der Kunst München, The Aerocene Foundation, Studio Tomás Saraceno, and many others. Courtesy the artist, Red Atacama and The Aerocene Foundation, as well as the art galleries neugerriemschneider, Berlin, Tanya Bonakdar, Los Angeles, Pinksummer, Genova, Andersen’s, Copenhagen and Ruth Benzacar, Buenos Aires.
© Photo: Studio Tomás Saraceno
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Tomás Saraceno
The Sanctuary of Water, 2026
Conceived by artist Tomás Saraceno with the 11 Indigenous communities of the Red Atacama network, Salinas Grandes, northern Argentina.
With the generous support of Haus der Kunst München, The Aerocene Foundation, Studio Tomás Saraceno, and many others. Courtesy the artist, Red Atacama and The Aerocene Foundation, as well as the art galleries neugerriemschneider, Berlin, Tanya Bonakdar, Los Angeles, Pinksummer, Genova, Andersen’s, Copenhagen and Ruth Benzacar, Buenos Aires.
© Photo: Studio Tomás Saraceno
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Tomás Saraceno
endless big, 2006
Courtesy the artist, neugerriemschneider, Berlin, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York; Andersen's Contemporary, Copenhagen; Ruth Benzacar, Buenos Aires, and Pinksummer Contemporary Art, Genoa.
© Photo: Studio Tomás Saraceno
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Tomás Saraceno
Salinas Grandes, northern Argentina, 2026
© Photo: Studio Tomás Saraceno
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Apacheta, northern Anden
© Foto: Inca Glossary
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Tomás Saraceno. tomás saracenoi
Flashing Toilets, 2025
Installation view
neugerriemschneider gallery, Berlin, 2025
© Photo: Studio Tomás Saraceno
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Tomás Saraceno
Fly with Aerocene Pacha, 2020
Salinas Grandes and Laguna de Guayatayoc, northern Argentina
Image courtesy of the Aerocene Foundation
© Photo: Studio Tomás Saraceno
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Tomás Saraceno. Complementarities
Cloud Imagination, Aerocene Community Room, 2024
Installation view
Red Brick Art Museum, Beijing, China, 2024.
Courtesy the artist; Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York/Los Angeles and neugerriemschneider, Berlin.
© Photo: Studio Tomás Saraceno
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Tomás Saraceno. Complementarities
Algo-r(h)i(y)thms, 2024
Installation view
Red Brick Art Museum, Beijing, China, 2024
Courtesy the artist, Red Brick Art Museum, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York/Los Angeles and neugerriemschneider, Berlin.
© Photo: Studio Tomás Saraceno
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Tomás Saraceno. ON AIR
Webs of At-tent(s)ion, 2018
Installation view
Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2018
Courtesy the artist; Andersen’s, Copenhagen; neugerriemschneider, Berlin, Pinksummer Contemporary Art, Genoa; Ruth Benzacar, Buenos Aires; Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York.
© Photo: Andrea Rossetti
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Tomás Saraceno. ON AIR
Webs of At-tent(s)ion, 2018
Installation view
Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2018
Courtesy the artist; Andersen’s, Copenhagen; neugerriemschneider, Berlin, Pinksummer Contemporary Art, Genoa; Ruth Benzacar, Buenos Aires; Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York.
© Photo: Andrea Rossetti
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Aerocene Community
Fairclouds drawing, Salinas Grandes, northern Argentina, 2023
© Photo: Studio Tomás Saraceno
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Tomás Saraceno
When the Llama Drinks from the Stars and the Spider Weaves Cycles of Life, Where the Sky Touches the Earth and Time Expands Like Salt, the Sanctuary of Water Are Fair Clouds on the Horizon, 2025
© Photo: Studio Tomás Saraceno
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Tomás Saraceno
Apacheta, Atacama Region, 2026
© Foto: Studio Tomás Saraceno
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Tomás Saraceno. tomás saracenoi
Exhibition view
neugerriemschneider, 2025–2026
Courtesy: the artist and neugerriemschneider, Berlin
Copyright: Tomás Saraceno
Photo: Jens Ziehe
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Portrait of Tomás Saraceno during Tomás Saraceno in Collaboration: Web(s) of Life, Serpentine, London, 2023.
Courtesy the artist.
Photo: Dario J Laganà, 2023.
