Press release
This exhibition traces a unique journey through Tomás Saraceno’s practice and marks a significant step forward in both its development and its understanding. It brings together two central strands of his long-term research – Aerocene and Arachnophilia – alongside the unveiling of a major new co-commission for a permanent work of land art, El Santuario del Agua (The Sanctuary of Water), developed by the artist in close collaboration with the Indigenous communities of Red Atacama, Las Salinas Grandes in Northern Argentina, advocating for the ancestral territories of the region.
Extending across the building, the exhibition includes air-fuelled sculptures, shared multispecies habitats and spatial environments that transform how Haus der Kunst’s spaces are experienced, inviting visitors to reconsider ecological and social forces shaping energy transition.
Andrea Lissoni, Artistic Director: “Haus der Kunst works with living artists to draw new lines in art history and to rethink how exhibitions are experienced today. With Saraceno, the building becomes a space to engage with ecological and social questions that extend beyond the exhibition itself. At Haus der Kunst, everything is programme, a living web of exhibitions, performances, concerts and encounters that amplify one another and shape a shared experience of art and ecology.”
Curated by Sarah Johanna Theurer and Andrea Lissoni.
Duration
17.6.26 – 7.2.27
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Tomás Saraceno in collaboration. Ancestral Futures
Exhibition view
Haus der Kunst München, 2026
Photo: Agostino Osio
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Tomás Saraceno in collaboration. Ancestral Futures
Exhibition view
Haus der Kunst München, 2026
Photo: Agostino Osio
© Haus der Kunst München, 2026
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Tomás Saraceno in collaboration. Ancestral Futures
Exhibition view
Haus der Kunst München, 2026
Photo: Agostino Osio
© Haus der Kunst München, 2026
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Tomás Saraceno in collaboration. Ancestral Futures
Exhibition view
Haus der Kunst München, 2026
Photo: Agostino Osio
© Haus der Kunst München, 2026
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Tomás Saraceno in collaboration. Ancestral Futures
Exhibition view
Haus der Kunst München, 2026
Photo: Agostino Osio
© Haus der Kunst München, 2026
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Tomás Saraceno in collaboration. Ancestral Futures
Exhibition view
Haus der Kunst München, 2026
Photo: Agostino Osio
© Haus der Kunst München, 2026
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Tomás Saraceno in collaboration. Ancestral Futures
Exhibition view
Haus der Kunst München, 2026
Photo: Agostino Osio
© Haus der Kunst München, 2026
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Tomás Saraceno in collaboration. Ancestral Futures
Exhibition view
Haus der Kunst München, 2026
Photo: Agostino Osio
© Haus der Kunst München, 2026
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Tomás Saraceno in collaboration. Ancestral Futures
Exhibition view
Haus der Kunst München, 2026
Photo: Agostino Osio
© Haus der Kunst München, 2026
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Tomás Saraceno in collaboration. Ancestral Futures
Exhibition view
Haus der Kunst München, 2026
Photo: Agostino Osio
© Haus der Kunst München, 2026
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Tomás Saraceno in collaboration. Ancestral Futures
Exhibition view
Haus der Kunst München, 2026
Photo: Agostino Osio
© Haus der Kunst München, 2026
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Tomás Saraceno in collaboration. Ancestral Futures
Exhibition view
Haus der Kunst München, 2026
Photo: Agostino Osio
© Haus der Kunst München, 2026
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Tomás Saraceno in collaboration. Ancestral Futures
Exhibition view
Haus der Kunst München, 2026
Photo: Agostino Osio
© Haus der Kunst München, 2026
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Tomás Saraceno in collaboration. Ancestral Futures
Exhibition view
Haus der Kunst München, 2026
Photo: Agostino Osio
© Haus der Kunst München, 2026
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Tomás Saraceno in collaboration. Ancestral Futures
Exhibition view
Haus der Kunst München, 2026
Photo: Agostino Osio
© Haus der Kunst München, 2026
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Tomás Saraceno in collaboration. Ancestral Futures
Exhibition view
Haus der Kunst München, 2026
Photo: Agostino Osio
© Haus der Kunst München, 2026
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Tomás Saraceno in collaboration. Ancestral Futures
Exhibition view
Haus der Kunst München, 2026
Photo: Agostino Osio
© Haus der Kunst München, 2026
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Tomás Saraceno in collaboration. Ancestral Futures
Exhibition view
Haus der Kunst München, 2026
Photo: Agostino Osio
© Haus der Kunst München, 2026
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Tomás Saraceno in collaboration. Ancestral Futures
Exhibition view
Haus der Kunst München, 2026
Photo: Agostino Osio
© Haus der Kunst München, 2026
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Tomás Saraceno in collaboration. Ancestral Futures
Exhibition view
Haus der Kunst München, 2026
Photo: Agostino Osio
© Haus der Kunst München, 2026
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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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El Santuario del Agua Salinas Grandes, 2026
© Photo: Studio Tomás Saraceno
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El Santuario del Agua Salinas Grandes, 2026
© Photo: Studio Tomás Saraceno
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El Santuario del Agua Salinas Grandes, 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
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
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
Fly with Aerocene Pacha, 2020
Salinas Grandes und Laguna de Guayatayoc, Nordargentinien
Courtesy: Aerocene Foundation
© Photo: Studio Tomás Saraceno
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Tomás Saraceno
Apacheta, Atacama Region, 2026
© Photo: Studio Tomás Saraceno
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Aerocene Community
Fairclouds drawing, Salinas Grandes, northern Argentina, 2023
© Photo: Studio Tomás Saraceno
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Tomás Saraceno
The Three Worlds of Pacha, 2026
© Photo: Studio Tomás Saraceno
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Tomás Saraceno in collaboration. Ancestral Futures
Exhibition view
Haus der Kunst München, 2026
Photo: Agostino Osio
© Haus der Kunst München, 2026
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Andrea Lissoni, Sarah Johanna Theurer & Tomás Saraceno
Photo: Pablo Lauf
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Miguel Casimiro, Luisa Casmiro, Tomás Saraceno, Andrea Lissoni, Sarah Johanna Theurer, Iván Arjona Acoria
Photo: Pablo Lauf
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Miguel Casimiro, Tomás Saraceno, Andrea Lissoni, Gastón Chillier, Iván Arjona Acoria, Andrei Fernández
Luisa Casmiro & Sarah Johanna Theurer
Photo: Pablo Lauf
