
Yixuan Hu, Jan Brauer, Maxine Weiss, Jakob Braito, Ömer Faruk Kaplan, Ilinca Fechete, Julian Siffert, René Stiegler, Markus Sworcik
Half Dry, Half Memory

Installation view, Markus Sworcik, 'Hovering radius, no fix', Jan Brauer, 'Phantom - Die Chimäre Landschaft', Yixuan Hu, 'ever migrate, ever escape'
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Installation view, Yixuan Hu, 'ever migrate, ever escape', Jakob Braito, Indie clip: untitled 01 + 02

Julian Siffert, 'placeholder (o o o o o)', Steel, Aluminum, MDF, Bells, Loudspeaker, MP3 Player, Amplifier, 151 x 17 x 16 cm, 2023/25

Maxine Weiss, 'Paraconsistent', Agave, 190.7 x 42 x 17 cm, 2024

Installation view, René Stiegler, 'Anxiety Rash', Ömer Faruk Kaplan, 'Skins', Yixuan Hu, 'ever migrate, ever escape', Ilinca Fechete, 'NOST - ALGAE, ALGIA'

Yixuan Hu, 'ever migrate, ever escape', (“而你心中的鸟群,时时要迁徙,时时要逃避”), Plastic, Compass, 10 x 7 x 7 cm, 2025

Markus Sworcik, 'Hovering radius, no fix', Aluminium, Chalk, Wax, Fabric, Epoxy sand, PLA, Silicon powder, 48 x 41 x 7.5 cm, 2025

Jan Brauer, 'Phantom - Die Chimäre Landschaft', Mixed media on cardboard, 57 x 40 cm, 2025

Julian Siffert, 'placeholder (o o o o o)', Steel, Aluminum, MDF, Bells, Loudspeaker, MP3 Player, Amplifier, 151 x 17 x 16 cm, 2023/25

Yixuan Hu, 'ever migrate, ever escape', (“而你心中的鸟群,时时要迁徙,时时要逃避”), Plastic, Compass, 27 x 21 x 3 cm, 2025

Yixuan Hu, 'ever migrate, ever escape', (“而你心中的鸟群,时时要迁徙,时时要逃避”), Plastic, Compass, 27 x 21 x 3 cm, 2025

Jakob Braito, 'Indie clip: untitled 01 + 02', Stainless steel, 90 x 30 x 10 cm, 2023

Maxine Weiss, 'Paraconsistent', Agave, 190.7 x 42 x 17 cm, 2024

Ilinca Fechete, 'NOST - ALGAE, ALGIA', Super 8 film, Re-Stabilized, 15:55 min, 2022 – 2023

Markus Sworcik, 'Hovering radius, no fix', Aluminium, Chalk, Wax, Fabric, Epoxy sand, PLA, Silicon powder, 48 x 41 x 7.5 cm, 2025

Installation view, Ömer Faruk Kaplan, 'Skins', Yixuan Hu, 'ever migrate, ever escape'

Ömer Faruk Kaplan, 'Skins', Floatglas, 160 x 19.5 x 4 cm, 2025

Installation view, René Stiegler, 'Anxiety Rash', Ömer Faruk Kaplan, 'Skins', Yixuan Hu, 'ever migrate, ever escape'

René Stiegler, 'Anxiety Rash', Fork stanchions, Steel, PLA, Epoxy, Wax, Plaster, 140 x 21 x 21 cm, 2023

Yixuan Hu, 'ever migrate, ever escape', (“而你心中的鸟群,时时要迁徙,时时要逃避”), Plastic, Compass, 2025
With Half Dry, Half Memory, nine artists traced the unstable ground where memory and material overlap. Objects, gestures, and spatial encounters did not align into a single form but shifted continually, forming temporary constellations of presence and disappearance. The exhibition circled the tension between what holds and what escapes: things that seemed to return, only to drift again; fragments that carried weight while also fading into residue. There was a quiet awareness of the times we live in, where symbols of home feel bent or unclear, forms no longer easily recognizable, where something foreign yet strangely familiar begins to take up space — like the remnants of a system still present, but only in fragments. This sense did not dominate, but it hovered, shaping the atmosphere in which the works unfolded.
Instead of offering closure, the show opened as a process — half formed, half dissolving — where the textures of the everyday and the dissonance of memory could be sensed without arriving at certainty. Half Dry, Half Memory unfolded as a field of fragments and atmospheres, where what remained was less about clarity than about staying with what resists becoming whole.
Markus Sworcik, René Stiegler