Opening: DREI SEKUNDEN

In the organizer's words:

Opening
Friday, August 1, 7 p.m.

Preview & guided tour by the curator
Friday, August 1, 5.30 p.m.

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"Everything that is takes three seconds
One second for before,
one for after, one for in the middle
For where the glacier calves,
where the seconds fly into the blue sea."
- Peter Licht, Sun Deck

Everything we call the world, everything we grasp, feel, think - it lives in a narrow slit of time: for three seconds. Then the moment flies away, loses its sharpness, becomes memory, becomes absence.
What we perceive as "now" is nothing stable. Neuroscience has shown that our conscious presence takes place in three-second-long islands of experience. After that, a new time stream begins, a new "now" that swallows up the previous one. In these second windows, our brain stores the sound of a melody, the gesture of another person, the movement of our own body. Once the stimulus is over, the sorting begins - and the forgetting.

The artists in this exhibition enter precisely this gap: the time between what was and what is no longer. Their works take up the absent, celebrate the ephemeral in-between - where an image disintegrates, a form flees, a thought dissolves.
DREI SEKUNDEN is an attempt to make the absent visible. The exhibition creates spaces for the fleeting, opens up resonance spaces for the now, which slips away from us as soon as we touch it. Here, absence is not understood as loss, but as the necessary condition for the perception of presence. For only what passes can have been present.

Artists:inside
Julius von Bismarck
William Engelen
Igor Eškinja
Sabrina Fritsch
Monika Grzymala
Moonjo Kim
Gregor Schneider
Troika

Curated by
Dr. Pia Wojtys, Anna-Maria Bogner

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Opening hours
Thu - Sun, 4 - 7 p.m.

Workshop accompanying the exhibition
The secret of invisible things
Photography course for children and young people
August 18 - 21, 11 a.m. - 3 p.m.

Kindly supported by
Kulturbüro Dortmund, Bergmann Bier, StadtbezirksMarketing Dortmund e.V., Kulturrucksack NRW

Image: Troika, Obsolete Landscapes, Installation, 2024, Courtesy The artists and Max Goelitz