Interlinked

The exhibition “Interlinked”, taking its title from the human-machine baseline test in Blade Runner 2049 (2017), brings together contemporary voices that reflect the current condition of our lives, increasingly shaped by digital platforms, algorithmic systems, and AI-assistance.   These technologies have not only constructed “off worlds” or alternative realms beyond physical reality but have become inseparable from daily interactions and environments. Their operations are often opaque, embedded so deeply within daily life that they remain largely invisible, even as they influence how we communicate, consume, work, and relate to one another.

Highly accessible media platforms powered by algorithms now tailor everything from product recommendations and information feeds to personal relationships and forms of “AI therapy” according to our interests, behaviors, and data profiles. As the boundaries between human and machine agency become increasingly blurred, these systems do more than mediate experience; they actively participate in shaping perceptions, desires, and social realities.

This exhibition questions how we perceive and navigate this evolving landscape. How do rapidly advancing forms of non-human intelligence affect our understanding of selfhood, psychology, intimacy, and connection? What new modes of subjectivity emerge through continuous interaction with algorithmic systems?

Through a range of artistic approaches, the exhibition explores the possible approaches and perspectives in response to these questions.

Artists

Rintaro Fuse’s work investigates “new forms of isolation” and what it means to “be together as two people” within the post-iPhone cityscape. Spanning painting, video, installation, performance, tours, web-based platforms, and exhibitions, his practice is often developed in dialogue with his own poetry and critical writing. It is further expanded through collaborations with artists, poets, designers, researchers, musicians, critics, curators, and even anonymous individuals. His work has been presented at the Louvre Abu Dhabi (2025), the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa (2022), the NTT InterCommunication Center, Tokyo (2021), among other institutions.

Sebastian Schmieg is an artist and educator based in Berlin. He works in a wide range of media including video, website, installation, artist book, custom software, lecture performance, delivery service, and game show. Schmieg studied at the University of the Arts in Berlin. His work has been exhibited internationally at Kunsthalle Zürich, The Photographers’ Gallery London, KW Institute for Contemporary Art Berlin, and Chronus Art Center Shanghai. Schmieg is a professor for interaction design at HAW Hamburg.

Rosa Wernecke is a media and performance artist working across video, installation, and live formats. Her practice engages queer and feminist perspectives on technology, with a focus on bias, power structures, and the cultural imaginaries embedded in digital systems. Rather than approaching technology as a neutral tool, she treats it as a performative counterpart—investigating how artistic interventions can expose, disrupt, and reframe dominant technological narratives.

Theresa Reiwer is a Berlin-based (post)digital artist working with multi-channel video, XR, and spatial installations that explore the entanglement of digital and physical spaces through game engines, 3D, motion capture, AI tools, analog processes, research as well as fictional narration. Her practice engages AI as both a mirror of societal paradigms and a projection surface for speculative futures. Her work has been shown at festivals and institutions including Ars Electronica and the Chengdu Biennale, as well as internationally in cities such as Beijing, Basel, Stockholm, Istanbul, Madrid, Miami, and Zurich.

Exhibition Information

"Interlinked"
18 September – 25 October 2026
Open Reception: Saturday, 19 September 2026, 5pm–7pm

Open Hours:
Tuesday–Friday: 2 pm–8 pm
Saturday & Sunday: 2 pm–6:30 pm
Closed on Mondays