Opening: AI-Worlding – Artistic Research on AI-Generated World Models
A collaboration between Museum Angewandte Kunst and saasfeepavillon
Press conference: Thursday, February 12, 2026, 11 a.m.
Opening at Museum Angewandte Kunst: Thursday, February 12, 2026, 7 p.m.
**Opening at saasfeepavillon:** Thursday, February 19, 2026, 7 p.m.
Grafik/Graphic: Farzam Mehdizadeh
Generative AI systems have become deeply embedded in our everyday lives and increasingly shape how we perceive society, the world, and ourselves. Generated images, texts, or videos create new worlds—based on selective data, often non-representative perspectives, and economic interests. Worlding refers to the ongoing performative process through which worlds and worldviews are produced. It is therefore never complete and always subject to negotiation. Art, in particular, offers a means to simulate and critically reflect on new worldings.
This continuous process of worlding—particularly through AI technologies—is at the heart of the thematic group exhibition jointly developed by the Museum Angewandte Kunst Frankfurt and saasfee*pavillon. An interdisciplinary team from the HfG Offenbach University of Art and Design, led by Alex Oppermann (Professor of Electronic Media), Mattis Kuhn and Leon-Etienne Kühr (Heads of the AI Lab), and Natalie Wilke (Department of Electronic Media), collaborates with students to interweave artistic research and societal reflection in this project.
The focus lies on artistic experimentation as a tool of inquiry—both to make the boundaries of supposedly limitless generative models tangible and to explore the evolving relationship between artists and AI systems. When are they merely tools, when co-creators, and when does their agency become a determining factor in social and artistic processes? How do AI systems influence worldings, and conversely, can worldings transform our interaction with these systems?
The exhibition presents a wide range of contemporary artistic positions created specifically for this context at the Museum Angewandte Kunst: performances, generated images and texts, paintings, video works, immersive environments, as well as interactive sound and spatial installations.
Participating artists:
allapopp, Anton Andrienko, Elisa Deutloff, Egor Dmitriev, Xiangyu Fu, Chelsea Hartmann, Marlon Hesse, Ava Leandra Kleber, Mattis Kuhn, Leon-Etienne Kühr, Max Kreis, Seongsin Lee, Ting-Chun Liu, June Pauli, saasfee* (Alex Oppermann & Al Dhanab), Evgeny Tverdokhlebov, and Natalie Wilke.
The exhibition is supported by the Connectom Networking and Innovation Fund of hessian.AI & saasfee*pavillon.
The solo exhibition when body is not enough by allapopp at saasfee*pavillon opens on February 19 at 7 p.m. with the live performance how to bury your digital twin at 8 p.m. The exhibition will also be on view there until April 26.