Glitch in der Matrix – Beate Gütschow und Charlotte Triebus

In the organizer's words:

The exhibition "Glitch in the Matrix - Beate Gütschow and Charlotte Triebus" is dedicated to the seemingly invisible sphere of influence between people and technology. The title is inspired by the film "The Matrix" (1999), in which a glitch symbolizes an interruption or malfunction and questions our everyday understanding of reality. Since then, the term has developed into a pop-cultural metaphor that refers to the uncertainty of perception and the blurring of the boundary between reality and illusion - especially in connection with digital and virtual worlds.

In the exhibition, the two artists Beate Gütschow and Charlotte Triebus make the glitch tangible. In their works, they refer to moments in which the apparent continuities of reality and the virtual are disrupted - to a stuttering in the matrix. In doing so, they explore how the entanglement of analog reality and the digital fundamentally shapes and changes our lives and, above all, our perception: How do algorithms and AI influence our view of the world? How are they beginning to determine our actions and interpersonal relationships? How do we perceive ourselves, our bodies, in this threshold space? How do we deal with questions of authenticity, privacy and manipulation? Do we still act in a self-determined way? And does the interplay between online and offline perhaps even give rise to new forms of perception?