On Sunday, March 15, 2026, the Rehmann-Museum Laufenburg invites you to a special talk. As part of the newly opened exhibition Énergies fossiles, the main artist Pauline Marx and her international team will give direct insights into their work between alchemy, archaeology and contemporary art.
After the official opening of the immersive installation Énergies fossiles, the artist talk on Sunday offers the opportunity to delve deeper into the concepts and development processes of this extraordinary project.
As a surprise, Pauline Marx will present a performance created especially for the exhibition.
A dialog between the disciplines
How do you transform Fricker clay into sound bodies? How do you distil fragrances from primeval plants? And what does an "ecology of attention" mean today? In a bilingual discussion (German/French), Pauline Marx and the participants of the collective - including Aëla Maï Cabel, Maëtte Lannuzel, Vica Pacheco, Tatiana Karl Pez and Jérémy Piningre - will explain their interdisciplinary working methods. It will be moderated bilingually by curator Michael Hiltbrunner.
The discussion will shed light on the combination of regional materials from the Jurapark Aargau with global artistic perspectives. Visitors will learn first-hand how the handmade light, scent and sound sculptures were created and what role speculative archaeology plays in the design of the museum's chthonic (subterranean) world of wonders.
Encounter with the collective
The event offers a forum for questions and direct exchange with the artists from France and Belgium. It is a rare opportunity to experience the combined expertise of ceramics, botany, performance and sound art in one place and to learn more about the "secret energies" of the fossils that form the core of the exhibition.
After the official opening of the immersive installation Énergies fossiles, the artist talk on Sunday offers the opportunity to delve deeper into the concepts and development processes of this extraordinary project.
As a surprise, Pauline Marx will present a performance created especially for the exhibition.
A dialog between the disciplines
How do you transform Fricker clay into sound bodies? How do you distil fragrances from primeval plants? And what does an "ecology of attention" mean today? In a bilingual discussion (German/French), Pauline Marx and the participants of the collective - including Aëla Maï Cabel, Maëtte Lannuzel, Vica Pacheco, Tatiana Karl Pez and Jérémy Piningre - will explain their interdisciplinary working methods. It will be moderated bilingually by curator Michael Hiltbrunner.
The discussion will shed light on the combination of regional materials from the Jurapark Aargau with global artistic perspectives. Visitors will learn first-hand how the handmade light, scent and sound sculptures were created and what role speculative archaeology plays in the design of the museum's chthonic (subterranean) world of wonders.
Encounter with the collective
The event offers a forum for questions and direct exchange with the artists from France and Belgium. It is a rare opportunity to experience the combined expertise of ceramics, botany, performance and sound art in one place and to learn more about the "secret energies" of the fossils that form the core of the exhibition.
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