New Rituals [for the End of the World]

The Earth is burning. A genocide is being broadcast live. AI is worshipped like a deity. Fascists swing chainsaws in front of the White House. And Sam Altman cheerfully admits that his technology will probably destroy the world — but that Big Tech will profit from it. We are witnessing the apocalypse. Not metaphorically.

The exhibition New Rituals [for the End of the World] takes a look at newly emerging social strategies for dealing with the difficult global situation. Notably, new ritual practices are currently arising precisely at the intersection of technology and spirituality. The international group exhibition brings together positions that conceive new rituals as coping mechanisms to resist the prevailing sense of impending doom. The artists in New Rituals explore which symbolic actions might hold us together when the sky collapses. Which new mythologies could help us survive — and transform — the end of the world as we know it?

Artists: Zach Blas, S()fia Braga, Stefanie Egedy, Sian Fan, Teresa Fernández-Pello, Anan Fries, Dorota Gawęda and Eglė Kulbokaitė, Auriea Harvey, Maya Hottarek, Etsuko Ichihara, Christiane Peschek, Skawennati, Robin Meier Wiratunga

Curators: Anan Fries and Marlene Wenger