Zu den Sternen! Weltraum und Weltflucht seit der Moderne at Arp Museum

The Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck in Remagen presents 'Zu den Sternen! Weltraum und Weltflucht seit der Moderne', a survey of cosmic art and space visions from the modern era to today. The exhibition features works by over a dozen artists, including Sylvie Fleury, Katharina Sieverding, Mona Schulzek, Alexander Rodtschenko, Bjørn Melhus, and Yael Bartana. Fleury's 'First Spaceship on Venus' critiques techno-utopianism, while Sieverding's video installation uses 200,000 NASA solar photographs to depict the sun as a terrifying lava sphere. Schulzek, the youngest artist (born 1992), installed 'Outerspace Transmitter' in the museum courtyard and a crashed steel object with brake parachutes on the lawn. Rodtschenko's kinetic sculptures reflect Russian Cosmism. Melhus's 2024 video 'Revelation' draws on the Book of Revelation, and Bartana's post-apocalyptic installation 'Light to the Nations'/'Farewell' imagines humanity fleeing a destroyed Earth in an ark spaceship. The exhibition traces humanity's millennia-old longing for cosmic escape, from Romanticism through Futurism, Surrealism, and Constructivism, to contemporary responses to polycrisis. The show runs at the Richard Meier-designed museum building.