Assumptions between knowledge and clouds

An exhibition about the book in transition -
between tangible material, fleeting knowledge and new spaces of meaning.

Books carry knowledge, memory and language. But in the digital age, their status is changing: what was once a solid block - a set object with a clear order - is now becoming increasingly
immaterial. Reading is more fleeting, knowledge is shared, linked, stored in clouds.

The exhibition Assumptions between knowledge and clouds takes this change as its
starting point and shows three artistic
works that transform discarded library books: A sculpture floats in the airspace of the Philological Library, showing a book that detaches itself from its physical form. It grows beyond itself - as a symbol of
imagination, of the dissolution of boundaries, of knowledge that is not only recorded, but also constantly rethought.

On the first floor, interventions fill empty
shelves - once places for organised knowledge, now projection surfaces for other
ways of thinking:
For voices that have no fixed place. For
perspectives that unfold between the lines. The emptiness becomes an invitation to continue reading, to add to, to surmise.

On the ground floor, the sculpture Andersbald refers to a future in the making. Something new grows from the traces of past readings
- fragile, changeable, open.

All the works take up the transition from the book as a closed object to an open space for thought. They make visible how strongly reading has to do with movement: with detours,
digressions, associations. And they pose
questions about the sustainability of artistic
practice: No new material was used - only what is already there but can be read differently.

This creates a silent dialogue between
past, present and a reading practice of tomorrow - somewhere between knowledge and clouds.