Group exhibition »Hyper-/ Un-/ Sur-Real« with current fellows

The group exhibition Hyper-/ Un-/ Sur-Real opens on October 2, 2025 at 6 pm in the former Galeria Kaufhof in Stuttgart. It spans the arc from the utopian promises of modernity to the dystopian ruptures of the present: questioning the hyperreal visions of the tech elites, the surreal self-staging of megalomaniac politics, and the unreal conditions of an exploited environment.

The exhibition features works by current fellows Lily Abichahine, Hanieh Fatouraee, and Atsuko Mochida. Also participating are alumni Anna Gohmert, Marvin Unger and Jan Nicola Angermann, who curated the exhibition.

The twelve artistic positions move within fields of tension between digital excess and analog decay, global interconnectedness and neo-nationalist retreat, historical amnesia and the painstaking confrontation with colonialism and war.

Hyper-/ Un-/ Sur-Real positions itself as a sensorium for the perceptual modes of our time. The artworks act as both mirror and seismograph: they reveal social contradictions, make visible what is often overlooked, and thus open up the possibility of expanding one’s perspective on so-called reality. The audience is indispensable in this process: only through dialogue with them do the works unfold their full power, creating a democratic space to reflect on the complex realities we inhabit.

With works by Anna Gohmert, Jochen Damian Fischer, Hanieh Fatouraee, Atsuko Mochida & Paul Lissner, Marvin Unger, Alexandra Haas, Michael Schramm, Helen Weber, Georg Lutz, Fabian Widukind Penzkofer, Julia Rhizoma, and Lily Abichahine.

Curator: Jan Nicola Angermann

Opening: October 2, 2025, 6 pm (outdoors)
On view: October 3–29, 2025
Opening hours: 24/7
Where: Eberhardstraße 28, 70173 Stuttgart

Free admission, wheelchair accessible

With the kind support of Bango, Gerd Falk from the Institute of Aircraft Design at the University of Stuttgart, Rosspartner Werbetechnik, SV SparkassenVersicherung, WiesingerMedia GmbH, and the Cultural Office of Stuttgart.