E-WERK Luckenwalde, JUNGE AKADEMIE Akademie der Künste and E.ON Foundation have announced a major group exhibition at E-WERK Luckenwalde this Autumn of works by Mensch Maschine fellows who produced work whilst on residency at E-WERK and Akademie der Kunste between 2024 – 2025.
The exhibition will feature artists Assem Hendawi, Emerson Culurgioni & Viktor Brim, hn. lyonga & Safiya Yon, Kira Xonorika, Maithu Bùi, Rae Hsu and Sonya Isupova. The exhibition marks the first time they will have been exhibited to the public. Together, the partners will also present the live event Mensch Maschine Musik at Stadtbad Live Luckenwalde featuring Bendik Giske, Discovery Zone, and Nazanin Noori alongside performances by Mensch Maschine fellows Rae Hsu and Kira Xonorika to inaugurate the exhibition and animate the Bauhaus swimming pool adjacent to E-WERK with sound, technology and new compositions.
Mensch Maschine: Return to Earth, 19th September – February 22nd 2026 E-WERK Luckenwalde.
Mensch Maschine: Return to Earth is the result of a residency programme developed from an international call out by E-WERK Luckenwalde, JUNGE AKADEMIE Akademie der Künste, Berlin and E.ON Foundation. This major group exhibition will present eight artists and artist duos who have developed their projects responding to the complex relationships between human and machine, animal, plant, and planet amid climate emergency and advancing digital technologies like artificial intelligence. At a time when the world approaches ecological tipping points, global wars, and ongoing threats to democracy, Mensch Maschine aims to open a pluriversal and speculative space for envisioning alternative approaches from within the arts. Artists may not change the world but they can offer new imaginaries, ancient wisdoms, ruptures, constellations, and experiences that help us navigate the tangled relationships between human, machine, animal, plant, and planet. The exhibition redirects technologies of violence toward artistic expression, resisting singular hegemonic narratives while embracing multiple poetics of image-making and story-telling, from hybrid creatures to scattered landscapes.
Mensch Maschine Musik, 19th September
In tandem with the opening of the exhibition programme, partners will present Mensch Maschine Musik on 19th September. The inaugural edition of this special interdisciplinary music festival will feature internationally acclaimed artists Bendik Giske, Discovery Zone and Nazanin Noori with intervals of live performance from contemporary artists Rae Hsu, Kira Xonorika and others from 5pm – 11pm.
Mensch Maschine Musik acts as a convergence point between technology and ecology to showcase experimental formats bridging sound, technology, music, contemporary art, performance and new compositions. The festival will take place in the iconic Bauhaus swimming pool adjacent to E-WERK which is currently being reimagined as a cultural space –Stadtbad Live Luckenwalde.
Admission to the exhibition is free on the opening night, and by donation thereafter.
Tickets for Mensch Maschine Musik can be purchased here from today and are limited to 200 spots.
The programme is curated by Clara Hermann, Director of the JUNGE AKADEMIE, Akademie der Künste; Helen Turner, Co-Director and Chief Curator at E-WERK Luckenwalde; and Katharina Worf, Senior Curator at E-WERK Luckenwalde, and is a partnership between E-WERK Luckenwalde, JUNGE AKADEMIE of Akademie der Kunste and the E.ON Foundation.
