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MATERIAL SHIFT

GÖKSU BAYSAL
SOPHIA HALLMANN
LASSE MÜLLER
ANNA RAOH
AYLIN DERYA STAHL
NANNA KAISER
BIANCA PHOS
LEAH ZHANG

curated by Helena McFadzean

Opening
16.10.2025 | 4 - 10 pm

Exhibition
17.10.2025 - 02.11.2025

Opening hours
Friday to Sunday
3 - 6 pm
and by appointment

Exhibition venue
Kunstraum Techne Sphere

In a world characterized by acceleration and digital smoothness, Material Shift focuses on that which resists compression. The exhibition asks: How do time, memory, and transformation leave traces in the material world? 
Göksu Baysal, Sophia Hallmann, Lasse Müller, Anna Raoh, and Aylin Derya Stahl from Berlin, as well as Nanna Kaiser and Bianca Phos from Vienna and Leah Zhang from Amsterdam, combine photography and sculpture to create novel hybrid forms, working with casts and placing materials in unusual contexts.

Their works reveal what escapes visibility: residues, imprints, afterimages. Materials become actors: they bear traces of use, heat, and transformation and tell of processes that go beyond the obvious.
Material Shift shows how human action is alienated from natural and digital systems.

The exhibition takes place at Techne Sphere Leipzig, a functioning industrial site where handmade machines are created. Here, materiality can be experienced: friction, work, and transformation are present.
 

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_{© Image: Detail from Absolute Purity, 2024, Leah Zhang. Courtesy the artist}