common landscape(s)
16.01.2026 - 15.02.2026
Opening: THU 15.01.2026, 18H ACUD Galerie

Opening hours:
THU - SUN
15H - 19h

Participating artists: Onur Abaci, Madison Donnelly, Sun Ho Lee, Celeste Viv Ly, Luka Naujoks, Paula Oltmann, Boseo Park, Hyejeong Yun

Looking for the weight of the in-between, this gathering explores the ritual of the threshold, the broader acts of translation, transfer and dialogue as both a connection and a concealment. The object as an ambiguity. The body as a transducer. A dialogue that exists only in the friction.

Departing from thoughts by Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi, this exhibition starts, continues, repeats, initiates and tests possibilities of exchange, dialogue, transfer and translation in both literal and metaphorical forms. The basic acts of translation between languages, contexts, cultures or media as an act of opening up a dialogue, creating sustaining bonds of kinship, “traversing the desert of meaninglessness.” A group show as such takes the acts of communication in between and out of the assembled contributions, while the works included here also engage with this in a range of formal and conceptual shades in themselves; towards an ever-evolving “projection of a common landscape.” The forms that take shape by filling and reacting to the absent, by challenging and dissolving the clear demarcations of the rigid definition and by thinking about and shaping representations of our entanglements.

With the objects acting: from a magic game frozen in agency - laying bare an inscribed texture that both opens up and keeps out - molding around the lacking void of the absent - forming a collaborative gesture tackling the muted grievances and atrocities - weaving the intricate ornament of a memory that recedes into the silhouette of a dissolving collective past - putting in their own gestures as a connector, reflector and a disruptor of the preexisting - not wanting to leave the in-between and enduring in a state of hybridity - creating the possibility of a framed view in which images of the outside and inside meet - slip across one another into a third landscape.

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“What offers us the possibility of finding meaning and pleasure in the occurrences of this life is a dialogic relation that establishes a space of mutual understanding. Meaning is interpersonal interpretation, a shared pathway of consciousness. Existence alone has no meaning: this is the truth that we learn from traversing the desert of meaninglessness“ (p.79)

Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi, Breathing (2019).

Curated by: Moritz Simon

Graphic design: Sohyeon Lee