4 April – 31 August 2025, MGGU – Museum Giersch of the Goethe University
“Fixing Futures” – How Art and Science Are Renegotiating Our Futures How can we influence our futures in times of climate change and global crises?
This exhibition shows how science and art don’t just predict potential developments, but also actively participate in shaping them. It highlights the opportunities and challenges that come with new technologies and invites you to think about more just and sustainable ways of living.
Moving between scientific analysis and the creative power of the imagination, the exhibition shows how different societies across the world deal with insecurities and plans for futures. Futures are never fixed, they’re open, changeable possibilities – always in the plural. International artists, scientists, and activists examine technologies like geoengineering, weather manipulation and quantum computers. Can these technologies help to create a more just and sustainable world? What new challenges do they bring with them?
Through the dialog between art and science, new perspectives on how futures can be thought about, shaped, and influenced are created. The exhibition questions existing conditions and makes space for alternative, decolonial visions of futures.
A wide-ranging accompanying program with workshops, tours, a film program, and discussions promotes an exchange between science, art, and society. A bilingual catalog, in which the artists, scientists, and curators involved discuss different views on shaping futures with each other deepens the exploration of the exhibition’s themes.
By collaborating with the DFG-funded Research Training Group ‚Fixing Futures‘, the Center for Critical Computational Studies (C3S), and the research center Normative Orders at the Goethe University, multidisciplinary connections are made that will have a lasting impact beyond the exhibition.
Fixing Futures invites you to look at the challenges of the coming futures, to expand your power of imagination, and discover new ways of thinking. More information and the full programme can be found on the official website of the exhibition: Fixing Futures | Museum Giersch der Goethe-Universität
Material to download:
Flyer in german: *Link*
Flyer in english: *Link*
Posters: *Link*
Information for press enquiries can be found on this page: *Link*
Exhibition opening
Fr 04.04. — 6 p.m.
7 p.m. Welcome and introduction to the exhibition
– Ina Neddermeyer, Director of the MGGU
– Prof. Dr. Viera Pirker, Vice President of
the Goethe University
– Laura Domes, Curator of the exhibition
8 p.m. Open studio
8 p.m. Electronic music by Frankfurt DJs Cilence b2b Julique
International Museum Day
Sun 18.05. — 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.
1 – 4 p.m. Foreign-language guided tours
1.30 – 4.30 p.m. German guided tours
Symposium: Seeing the Unforeseeable: Art, Science, and the Imagining of Futures
Sat 14.06.
2 p.m. Talk with Jordan Rita Seruya Awori (Frankfurt), Prof. Dr. Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay (Oslo), Prof. Dr. Mi You (Kassel) and Dr. Joshua Wodak (Sydney)
4 p.m. Guided tour in dialog with Jordan Rita Seruya Awori and Dr. Joshua Wodak
6 p.m. Keynote lecture by Prof. Dr. Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay
Organization: Dr. Steven Gonzalez Monserrate and Dr. Julia Schubert, Goethe University
Book presentation
Josh Wodak:
Petrified. Living During a Rupture of Life on Earth
Sun 15.06. — 11 a.m.
In cooperation with the Käte Hamburger Centre for Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Studies, Heidelberg University
