Christa Sommerer & Laurent Mignonneau. The Artwork as a Living System

Christa Sommerer & Laurent Mignonneau. The Artwork as a
Living System | Artist Talk


[07.05.2022 – 31.07.2022]


The interactive installations in the exhibition tell the story of
almost 30 years of artistic work by the Austrian-French artist
duo Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneau.


»Their works are technologically inventive, scientifically
instructive, and artistically imaginative. As a result, visitors
inside leave their works richer for aesthetic, ludic, and
cognitive experiences and insights. Sommerer and Mignonneau's
exhibition is more than a cabinet of curiosities, more than a
terrarium, more than an aquarium; it shows mythical creatures,
artificial creatures, a so far unseen panorama of imagination and
technical ingenuity«. (Peter Weibel)


The exhibition is a co-production of ZKM | Karlsruhe, OÖ
Landes-Kultur GmbH, Linz and iMal, Brussels. The exhibition is
accompanied by a scholarly publication in English edited by Karin
Ohlenschläger, Peter Weibel and Alfred Weidinger in the Leonardo
Book Series in collaboration with MIT Press.