Group exhibition at Berthold Pott, Cologne, 5 Sept. – 18 Oct. 2025
Opening as official partner of the gallery weekend DC OPEN: Friday 5 Sept. 2025, 6-9pm
The group exhibition Body Data brings together six artistic positions that examine the human body in the context of technological developments, artificial intelligence, and posthumanist perspectives. Main questions like how our self-understanding and identity will change in a future where biological, digital, and technological systems increasingly merge.
While an important American AI researcher Ray Kurzweil believes that humans can only prevent being dominated by artificial intelligence thru a symbiosis with it (DIE ZEIT, July 31, 2025), the works gathered in the exhibition subtly and radically pose the question of what different roles body and mind can take on in the future — between utopia and dystopia.
Isabelle Andriessen contemplates a posthumanistic future in her performative sculptures made of ceramics, sulfates, and steel, creating hybrid works that combine organic, chemical, and technological components and engage in metamorphic relational processes with one another. The works of Ivana Bašić also operate at the intersection of body and machine, where the „human parts“ already seem to be fully merged with the technological ones. Her works are subject to a constant process of transformation and address, alongside human and non-human components, primarily metaphysical questions of identity and trauma. Carolin Eidner locates the body in digitally reminiscent image spaces made of plaster and canvas, thereby creating states of suspension between apocalyptic emptiness and paradisiacal liberation.
Agata Ingarden´s works consists of materials such as copper or caramel, which emphasize the processual and circular. Her sculptures oscillate between transformation and interdependences, incorporating aspects of biological systems—such as mycelium cultures—as well as surveillance technologies or mythical narratives. Angelika Loderer, on the other hand, depicts in her aluminium sculptures the body as a fleeting-fragile fragment, as a quotation that exists in a state of permanent dissolution.
In Florian Meisenberg’s works the transparent-looking bodies painted in linseed oil on canvas negotiate questions of self-positioning, limitation, and liberation. His fragile figurations placed in geometric white color fields open up associations of physical tightness, perspectival indifferences, mental states of suspension, and multiple cognitive interwoveness.
The exhibition Body Data including works of six international young artists debates how much the former manifest of the human body is in a paradigmatic state of change. Between organic heritage, technological enhancement, and digital projection, the exhibition creates scenarios of a future where the boundaries of human beings and machines could ultimately disappear.
Isabelle Andriessen, born 1986 in NL, lives and works in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. She e.g. exhibited at Kunsthal Ghent, Belgium (solo), museum MOCO Montpellier, France (group), Middelheim Museum, Antwerp, Belgium (group), Linnahall, Tallinn, Estonia (group), Moderne Museet Malmö, Sweden (group), International Triennial Cleveland, USA, De Pont Museum Tilburg, NL, Museum of Modern Art Warsaw, Poland, Stedelijk Museum, Amsteram, NL, 15th Lyon Biennale, Lyon, France, Lafayette Anticipants, Paris, France. Upcoming: Kunsthal Trondheim, Norway (2026, solo). Isabelle is represented by Berthold Pott Gallery, Cologne.
Ivana Bašić, born 1986 in Belgrade, Serbia, lives and works in NYC, USA. Solo exhibitions e.g. at Salon of the museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade, Serbia (2025), Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin, Germany (2024), Albion Jeune, London, UK (2025); museum MO.CO. Montpellier Contemporain (2025); François Ghebaly, New York (2022); Museum of Art November Gallery, Belgrade (2018); Marlborough Contemporary, New York (2017); and Annka Kultys Gallery, London (2016). Group exhibitions e.g. at Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin (2023); Lafayette Anticipations, Paris (2023); Francesca Minini Gallery, Milan (2022); Anonymous Gallery, New York (2022); Someday Gallery, New York (2022); Galerie du Monde, Hong Kong (2022); National Gallery Prague (2021); Museum of Art and Design at Miami Dade College (2020); Lyles & King, New York (2020); Matthew Brown, Los Angeles (2020); Athens Biennal (2018); Belgrade Biennial (2018); Hessel Museum of Art, Annendale- On-Hudson (2017), among others. Ivana is represented by Albion Jeune, London, UK and Francesca Minini, Milan, Italy.
Carolin Eidner, born 1984 in Berlin, lives and works in Berlin, Germany. She exhibited solo at e.g.: Ruttkowski68, New York, USA and Paris, France, Polina Berlin Gallery, NY, USA (Oct 2025), Aurel Scheibler, Berlin, Germany, Natalia Hug, Köln, Germany, Artothek Köln, Germany, Langen Foundation Neuss, Germany, Parkhaus Düsseldorf, Germany / Group exhibitions e.g.: Emsdettener Kunstverein, Emsdetten, Germany (3-person exhibition), We get closer, Stoffpavillion Cologne, Germany, Kunstverein Krefeld, Kunstverein Duisburg, Germany, Kunsthaus NRW Kornelimünster, Geramy, Bundeskunsthalle Bonn, Germany, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany … Carolin is represented by Ruttkowski68, Cologne and Aurel Scheibler, Berlin.
Agata Ingarden, born 1994 in Poland, lives and works in Athens and Paris. She e.g. exhibited Museum Sztuki, Lodz, Poland (solo), Gdansk Galeria Miejska, Gdansk, Poland (solo), Triangle Asterides, Marseille, France (group), Museum Unter Tage, Bochum, Germany (group), Biennale Gwangju, South Korea, National Museum Krakow, Poland (group), Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France (group), CAPC Museum Bordeaux, France (group), Pinchuk Art Center, Kiew, Ukrania (Future Generation Art Price, winner of the Special Price), Lafayette Anticipations, Paris (France), Kunstverein Wiesbaden, Germany (group), Neue Galerie Gladbeck, Germany (group)… Agata is represented by Berthold Pott Gallery, Cologne. Upcoming: Kunsthalle Appenzell, Switzerland (solo, Oct 2025), Collection Lambert, Avignon, France (solo 2026), Triangle Asterides, Marseille, France (solo, 2026).
Angelika Loderer, born 1984, Feldbach, Austria, lives and works in Vienna, Austria. She exhibited solo at e.g. Sophie Tappeiner, Vienna, Austria, Belvedere 21, Vienna, Austria, CFA Berlin, Germany, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, Austria, Secession Wien, Vienna, Austria, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg, Austria, Dortmunder Kunstverein, Germany / group exhibitions e.g.: Museum of Modern Art Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria, Albertina, Vienna, Austria, Thaddeus Ropac, Paris, France, Kunsthalle Bratislava, SVK, New Museum NY, USA, …
Angelika is represented by CFA Berlin and Sophie Tappeiner, Vienna, Austria
Florian Meisenberg, born in 1980 in Berlin, Germany, lives and works in NYC, USA. Solo exhibitions e.g. at Anton Kern Gallery (the window), New York, USA, Kate MacGarry, London, UK; Provinz, Bochum, Germany; E.A Shared Space, Tbilisi, Georgia; Simone Subal Gallery, New York, USA; Kunstpaterre, Munich, Germany; Avlskarl, Copenhagen, Denmark; VR Room, Zabludowicz Collection, London, Kunstpalais Erlangen, Germany / Group exhibitions include Boros Bunker, Berlin, Germany, Philara Collection Düsseldorf, Germany, Situation Kunst, Bochum, Germany; We get Closer, Fahrbereitschaft Berlin, Germany, Insel Hombroich Kulturraum, Neuss, Germany; Künstlerhaus Bremen, Bremen, Germany; Now! Painting In Germany Today, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Museum Chemnitz and Museum Wiesbaden; 360: Broehan Museum, Berlin, Germany, ICA, Philadelphia, Kunstsenter, Oslo, Norway, Kiasma Finnish National Gallery, Helsinki, Finland. Florian is represented by Kate MacGarry, London, UK
