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Saturday, April 26, 2025, 7 pm – Sunday, April 27, 2025, 1 am

Performance Living Scores by Yaël Kempf

Continuously between 8 and 11 pm

Yaël Kempf is an artist who explores the interfaces between the living, technology and perception. Through performances, installations and immersive works, she scrutinises the dynamics of control, interaction and illusion in public space. For her new performance, she uses the nocturnal urban landscape and plays with the contrast between familiar elements and unexpected interventions. The Düsseldorf-based French artist explores the overlaps between migration, ecology and social structures through material-based experiments. Her work examines movement and belonging as fluid processes characterised by the pursuit of freedom – one that constantly collides with imposed boundaries.

Guided tour through the exhibition Frozen Mirrors
7 pm

Curator Ludwig Seyfarth introduces the exhibition Frozen Mirrors and presents selected works.

Tickets for all participating venues are available in advance online, in the art institution KAI 10 | ARTHENA FOUNDATION and at the box office for €17.00.

Panel with participants in the publication Illusions. Contemporary Art Between Fiction and Reality

Dr Belinda Grace Gardner, art historian, Hamburg
Dr Jacob Birken, cultural and media scientist, Düsseldorf/Cologne
Delia Keller, GESTALTUNG BERLIN, designer of the publication
Ludwig Seyfarth, curator of the exhibitions

KAI 10 | ARTHENA FOUNDATION is delighted to present the new publication Illusions. Contemporary Art Between Fiction and Reality. It documents the three exhibitions Phantoms and Other Illusions; Bodies, Grids and Ecstasy and Frozen Mirrors shown at KAI 10 and illuminates different facets of the theme of illusion in contemporary art. In addition to illusionistic imitation through to trompe-l'oeil, the play with naturalness and artificiality, and the fictionalisation of spatial experiences, the psychological and political levels of meaning of the concept of illusion are up for debate. The significance of digital simulation techniques and AI programmes for contemporary image production will also be examined.

In conversation with Ludwig Seyfarth, Belinda Grace Gardner and Jacob Birken discuss the theses of their catalogue essays and Delia Keller explains the path from the development of a key visual for the respective exhibition to the overall concept of the publication.