April 23, 2025, 2 pm
Many thanks to the director Yolanda Kaddu-Mulindwa introducing our participants to the concept, program & history of Kunstbrücke am Wildenbruch as part of Berlin’s Municipal Galleries and to the assistant curator Clara von Schwerin guiding us through the group exhibition COSMOPOLITICS by Juliette Chartier, Stefan Eichhorn, Adriana Knouf, Nonhuman Nonsense, Quadrature curated by Polynome Collective. The visit is part of the BAI Studio Program | Berlin Artist Residency, Art School, Arts Incubator, and Live Online Courses & Classes.
Exhibition Date: April 05 – June 01, 2025
Location: Kunstbrücke am Wildenbruch
Opening Hours: Wednesday – Sunday, 12 Noon – 6 pm
Address: Weigandufer at the corner of Wildenbruchbrücke, 12045 Berlin
“In the era of the New Space, Cosmopolitics argues that the cosmos is a common good belonging equally to all terrestrial entities. Treated as an infinite resource by private and governmental agents eager to exploit it, its actual finiteness calls for a collective stewardship, a democracy beyond national and anthropological boundaries.
From its beginnings, space conquest has been exporting earthly conflicts and unjust hierarchies to the stars in the name of progress. As the Chinese program Chang’e seeks to reveal the origins of the Moon and of the Solar System, it is clear that the research about Earth’s satellite is the first step of a larger cosmic extractivist enterprise. Along with Elon Musk’s SpaceX program to colonize Mars and “make civilisation multiplanetary” – an unrealistic utopia turned into a propaganda tool for right-wing ideas – the astrocapitalist agenda reveals itself as an intrinsically fascist project.
Between astrological satellites, xenoliths and thinking planets, Cosmopolitics turns the mundane location of Kunstbrücke am Wildenbruch into a speculative spaceship. The artworks presented in the show nourish new political imaginaries in order to reinvent our relationship to the cosmos and realize our planetary condition.” (Text by courtesy of Kunstbrücke am Wildenbruch)
More information on the Kunstbrücke am Wildenbruch Website.
