TRANSFORMERS. Masterpieces from the collection in dialogue with artificial beings

Seldom has a museum appeared so alive: encounter avatars, moving, talking and learning human-machines. Observe the wealth of movement and ability to react of these odd new creatures. Listen carefully to a mechanical mouse as it talks to a candle. The automation of life, the transformation of our social environments continue apace. Artificial intelligence and its promises are taking control and creating lifelike life forms. As humanity tests the limits of progress, it finds itself on the verge of rendering itself dispensable. With its latest exhibition, Museum Frieder Burda is taking on an experiment by transforming itself into a hybrid and utopian laboratory test center: Curator Udo Kittelmann’s exhibition thematizes and presents some of these artificial beings. Beings that critically inspire the museum and its classical masterpieces. The result: a new dialogue situation that goes through the permutations of the conjunctive “what if“ of a radically altered future.