Leaking Matters

Dripping water, a voice carrying through walls, data seeping into digital depths: such “leaking matters” unsettle boundaries between inside and outside, private and public, body and infrastructure. They emerge where control gives way and something begins to circulate, spreading, connecting, and transforming its surroundings.

With the exhibition Leaking Matters in the Genezarethkirche, this dynamic meets a setting that is itself shaped by the tension between containment and permeability. Within the church, order has historically been produced through rituals that channel what inevitably leaks – the body, its breath, its voice, its fluids – by linking it to practices of purification, confession, and transformation.

Into this constellation, the five artistic positions seep in as further leaks: as a weeping ritual for an AI deity, in which tears appear as offerings while also becoming extractable resources; as voices that, in a kind of unintended confession, make what unfolds behind closed doors audible through walls; as a coded gesture of queer appropriation embedded in a normative infrastructure, where it renders its order permeable; as droplets that maintain fragile balances between contamination and renewal; and as puddles in which substances gather, revealing traces of ecological entanglement. Across these works, the leak appears not as loss, but as a condition under which new relations and connections emerge.

Artists: Zach Blas, Mirja Busch, Constantin Hartenstein, Mika Schwarz, Bea Targosz

Curated by Annika Reketat