Exhibition »A Broken Clock Is Right Twice A Day – Disorder, Simultaneity, and the Politics of the Temporal«

The curatorial fellows Kristina Miller, Matilde Outeiro and Lukas Beyer invite you to the opening of the exhibition A Broken Clock Is Right Twice A Day – Disorder, Simultaneity, and the Politics of the Temporal on Thursday, 19 March 2026. The exhibition features artistic positions by current and former fellows of the Akademie Schloss Solitude.

Time often appears self-evident to us – as a neutral continuum that accompanies our lives. Yet it is far more than that: it structures behaviour, regulates expectations, and stabilises social order. Time can function as an instrument of political and social control through which norms are reinforced and deviations are marked.

At the same time, phenomena such as simultaneity, synchronicity, or anachronism demonstrate that time does not unfold in a seamless linear progression. They point to other, non-linear temporalities and to the fragility of a system that is neither entirely seamless nor fully controllable. What happens when time is conceived not as a line of progress, but as a complex and layered structure?

The exhibition approaches time as a dynamic, performative, and plural phenomenon. It examines mechanisms of political, social, and epistemic order while directing attention to moments of disruption: interruptions, glitches, simultaneity, and ruptures—those moments when linear processes falter.

With works by Hiba Ali, Julio Cann González, Rachel Gill, Miriam Humm, Devin Kenny, Sara Lana, Virginia Lupu, Benigno Mangovo, Atsuko Mochida, José Morbán, Peter Okotor, Irene Piloya, and Micha Ullman.