Lothringer Halle 13
September 18 - December 28. 2025
September 18 - December 28. 2025
Machinic Metabolism
MACHINIC METABOLISM challenges conventional binaries between human and machine, nature and technology, and proposes alternative modes of poetic coexistence. It critically engages with the extractivist logic of industrial modernity and technocapitalism, while exploring regenerative, symbiotic, and decentralized forms of cohabitation. The project enables the creation of new site-specific works as well as adaptations of existing ones that enter into dialogue with the architecture and history of Lothringer 13 Halle—a former machine workshop where engines were once produced and assembled. Through a series of dynamic events, MACHINIC METABOLISM fosters collective knowledge production and artistic practices within a more-than-human web of relations.
Curated by Kalas Liebfried, Zakirah Rabaney and Jakob Braito
Artists
Sophia Gatzkan, Selma Selman, Christian Schwarz, Anna Lena Keller, Patrícia J. Reis, Mathias Reitz Zausinger
Photo by Christian Kain
MACHINIC METABOLISM challenges conventional binaries between human and machine, nature and technology, and proposes alternative modes of poetic coexistence. It critically engages with the extractivist logic of industrial modernity and technocapitalism, while exploring regenerative, symbiotic, and decentralized forms of cohabitation. The project enables the creation of new site-specific works as well as adaptations of existing ones that enter into dialogue with the architecture and history of Lothringer 13 Halle—a former machine workshop where engines were once produced and assembled. Through a series of dynamic events, MACHINIC METABOLISM fosters collective knowledge production and artistic practices within a more-than-human web of relations.
Curated by Kalas Liebfried, Zakirah Rabaney and Jakob Braito
Artists
Sophia Gatzkan, Selma Selman, Christian Schwarz, Anna Lena Keller, Patrícia J. Reis, Mathias Reitz Zausinger
Photo by Christian Kain
Self documented experience, 2025
wax, metal, radiator, other discarted car parts and led light
venus with a growth, 2025
wax, resin, fiberglass, metal, scrap auto and motorcycle parts, other found objects
and a backdrop was chaos, 2025 (portrait of Christopher Choram)
wax, resin, fiberglass, metal, scrap auto and motorcycle parts, other found objects
blinding light of what is without alternative , 2025
wax, metal, radiator, other discarted car parts and led light