Leonhard Rothmoser, Sara Mayoral und CARMEN: SCROLLING BLUE SKIES

Das sagt der/die Veranstalter:in:

kuratiert von Anna Pasco Bolta

Vernissage: 08.07. ab 19 Uhr 

Führung und Film “Moddergat” (Mudhole) von Job Antoni Schellekens: 20.07. ab 16 Uhr

We live on a planet in flames and we keep scrolling. This exhibition starts from an uncomfortable realization: we are part of the problem, but we could also be part of something else. Faced with the climate crisis, it is not enough to recycle delivery boxes properly; we need to rethink how we relate to the world, to living things, and to our own contradictions. Here, humor is not escapism, but a necessary short circuit. We laugh because it hurts, because it is absurd, because we keep tripping over the same stone, only now the stone might also have WiFi. This exhibition proposes a break: not to look with guilt, but with clarity and a desire to imagine another way of being here.

In IF THAT BLUE COULD STAY FOREVER, Leonhard Rothmoser presents a triptych with the titles Apocalypse, Happy End, and Tomorrow, which unfolds in the space and leans toward the viewer. The work invites reflection on the uncertainty of the future, without resorting to absolute drama or promising solutions, opening itself up to the contradictions and complexities of the present.

Sara Mayoral presents Midnight Cherries a hanging still life composed of decaying flowers and fruit, glass sculptures with ferments, and everyday objects. The piece goes beyond the decorative to explore an ecosystem in transformation, where the organic and the domestic intertwine, inviting us to rethink our ways of living, conserving, and consuming.

Finally at Ho! Ho! Hot!, CARMEN presents an installation that questions the global spread of northern Christmas imagery. A musical greeting card and a snow globe with a desert scene reveal the disconnect between festive symbols—snow, fir trees, sleighs—and the diverse climates where they are reproduced. The work reflects on how cultural imaginaries from the Global North are adopted as universal, even as climate change undermines their relevance. It invites us to rethink the political and aesthetic weight of seasonal ornamentation.

As a special guest for the finissage, we will be screening Moddergat (Mudhole), a short film by Job Antoni Schellekens (2021). Set in a near-future coastal village in the Netherlands, the film follows a delegation from the International Climate Tribunal as they prepare a ritualistic human sacrifice to appease the growing threat of climate change. Blending satire, mythology, and dystopia, Moddergat draws a powerful parallel with the themes of Scrolling Blue Skies—questioning who bears the burden of ecological crisis and how collective inaction is often masked by ritualized gestures. In both the exhibition and the film, humor and absurdity become tools to confront uncomfortable truths about complicity, responsibility, and hope in the face of collapse.

Die Schaufenster-Ausstellung ist täglich von 8 bis 22 Uhr beleuchtet.