OMNIPHOBIA
is a state in which everything could be a potential threat.
Every object, image or place carries more than its visible form.
Everything seems haunted by histories that resist simple interpretation. Curiosity and suspicion become inseparable.
Drawing on the logic of the Wunderkammer and the compartmental structure of the Setzkasten, the exhibition resists linear narration in favor of accumulation, juxtaposition and ambiguity.
Everything is sorted and separated and thus seemingly well organized in a Setzkasten.
This order is artificial.
The objects remain enigmatic.
Their relationships to one another can never be fully explained.
At the centre of Omniphobia are video works filmed at Ganslberg, the former home and studio of Fritz Koenig.
Another Wunderkammer one might say: sculptures, horse breeding, collections, farmhouse, memorial site and artist’s legacy.
The video works treat the site as a haunted landscape: a place where architecture, objects, surroundings and the past persist with unsettling intensity. The horror here is not fictional. It arises from the persistence of things, from histories that remain embedded in spaces, sites and collections.
Omniphobia does not seek to resolve these horrors. Instead, it invites the viewer to navigate a constellation of uncanny and eerie fragments.
Curated by Sophia Köhler and Marlon Bellet.
