From the feed of Studio Mut, August 30, 2023.

Museion presents HOPE Curated by Bart van der Heide and Leonie Radine in collaboration with DeForrest Brown, Jr. Opening: 29.09.2023 Design: Studio Mut, Thomas Kronbichler. HOPE, an international group exhibition exploring spaces of hope between science and fiction, curated by Bart van der Heide and Leonie Radine in collaboration with musician, theorist, and writer DeForrest Brown, Jr. As the final instalment of the TECHNO HUMANITIES trilogy, HOPE probes the close alliance between museums and the humanities as sites of active world-building. The exhibition, which occupies the entirety of the museum, includes works from an intergenerational cohort of artists. Ever since opening its doors exactly 15 years ago, the Museion building has been repeatedly described as alien, a UFO that landed in the center of Bolzano. HOPE endorses the view of the museum as a spaceship, a time capsule, a portal to another dimension. The exhibition will transform Museion into a production site of wonder, merging science and fiction to evoke hope through individual and collective imaginations of futures and pasts. As Philosopher Ernst Bloch wrote in the introduction of his Principle of Hope (1954): “We need the most powerful telescope, that of polished utopian consciousness,” to penetrate the darkness. Thank you as always to Museion Director Bart van der Heide and Museion Communications Head Cristina Ferretti for the collaboration. #exhibition #identity #graphicdesign @museion_bz @bartlover