Unstable Media from the 21st Century
Group Exhibition Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany

Artists: Melati SURYODARMO 麦拉蒂·苏若道默 | 

UNSTABLE MEDIA IN THE 21ST CENTURY examines some of the most radical voices in media art today based on some 40 key works from the Centre Pompidou’s pioneering New Media Collection.

Ever since the 1980s, the uncertain future of emerging technologies has challenged any stable notion of »new media« as an art form, with one technology rapidly replacing the next. These technologies have nevertheless become em-bedded in our sensory memory and form what could be called our »subskin«. Through innumerable interfaces and perpetual resonances, media culture is embodied and realised daily as an inescapable substrate of human life, making  it virtually impossible to take a critical stance. The exhibition brings together a variety of different art forms and situations in order to explore how artists have appropriated and reinvented various media in recent decades, simultaneously recognising and altering them. The show is divided into eight chapters, unfolding along a series of selected paths that propose potential new stories and histories.  

The Centre Pompidou is closed until 2030 for extensive renovation work. This presents a special opportunity to experience selected works as part of an exhibition co-organized by the Hamburger Kunsthalle and the Centre Pompidou.

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