Seeing the Unseen

Mysterious, enigmatic and counterintuitive: anyone who ventures into the world of quantum physics often has to take a leap of faith. Particles that are also waves, probabilities instead of certainties, realities that only manifest themselves through observation: the world at the smallest scale defies our imagination, forms the basis for radically new technologies such as quantum computers, and also fascinates artists.

With the exhibition “Seeing the Unseen”, the ERES Foundation invites visitors on an interdisciplinary journey into the quantum world. One hundred years after the pioneering achievements of Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg and others, the latest scientific findings meet contemporary art. In the show, the themes of quantum physics intertwine in Elsa Garmire’s psychedelic laser shows, overlap in Tamiko Thiel’s mixed reality installation, and unfold in the expanding and shrinking spaces of Mehmet & Kazim or in Tan Mu’s painterly homage to the chandelier-like beauty of golden quantum computers.

With the excellence cluster Munich Center of Quantum Science and Technology (MCQST) the ERES Foundation has gained a cooperation partner that provides scientific support for the project. An outstanding lecture programme offers insights into one of the world’s leading epicentres of modern quantum physics – Munich.

Welcome to the parallel world of crazy tiny units. Perhaps you will be floating on “Cloud Q” as well after visiting “Seeing the Unseen”?

Artists: Dara Birnbaum, Herbert W. Franke, Elsa Garmire, Ayoung Kim, Alicja Kwade, Roman Lipski, Jonas Lund, Mehmet & Kazim, Tan Mu, Semiconductor, Thomas Struth, Paul Talman, Tamiko Thiel, Troika, Agustina Woodgate, and others

Image © Ayoung Kim, Delivery Dancer’s Sphere, 2022 (details/video), Courtesy the artist and Gallery Hyundai