The World Through AI

Until September 20
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The major summer exhibition presents artworks from the past ten years that engage with the cognitive, political, and environmental dimensions of AI. A series of time capsules—small cabinets of curiosities—connect the present with the past.
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  • Discover around 40 works, including video installations, prints, sculptures and photographs

  • Around 30 international artists are featured

  • This comprehensive themed exhibition spans both exhibition spaces at the SCHIRN
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  • Angel with yellow braids and green clothing, sad and busy with a phone, in an impressionistic style.
    Holly Herndon & Mat Dryhurst, xhairymutantx, 2024–2025, made of images generated by a custom AI model, prompter, and interactive video
    © Holly Herndon & Mat Dryhurst
  • Close-up of a mineral rock featuring green and blue hues with many small holes and uneven surfaces.
    Julian Charrière, Metamorphism LI, 2016, Installations, artificial lava, molten computer waste (motherboards, CPUs, RAMs, hard drives, cables), Corian base, steel, white glass, 170 × 25 × 25 cm
    © Julian Charrière / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2026
  • A young man sits underwater, surrounded by greenish light and silhouetted diving equipment.
    Grégory Chatonsky, The Fourth Memory, 2025, installation, generative film, 3D prints, digital prints, robot, aluminum, stones
    © Grégory Chatonsky
  • Black-and-white depiction of a stylized plant with butterfly wings and flowers in a minimalist composition.
    Joan Fontcuberta, Typha Volans, from the series eHerbarium, 2024–2025, inkjet prints of images generated by Stable Diffusion, 32 × 27 cm each
    © Joan Fontcuberta / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2026
  • A person with long orange braids sits on a rock while a shimmering green figure hovers in the light.
    Holly Herndon & Mat Dryhurst, xhairymutantx, 2024–2025, made of images generated by a custom AI model, prompter, and interactive video
    © Holly Herndon & Mat Dryhurst
  • Kate Crawford & Vladan Joler, Anatomy of an AI System: An Anatomical Case Study of the Amazon Echo as an Artificial Intelligence System Made of Labor, 2018, print on paper
    © Courtesy of the artists
  • A man in a room looks at illuminated backgrounds with blurred light spots and a messy floor.
    Erik Bullot, Cinéma vivant, 2024, digital print
    © Erik Bullot
  • Painting of a red and green apple with a large white sign that says "This is not an apple."
    Trevor Paglen, The Treachery of Object Recognition, 2019, dye sublimation print on aluminum, 15 × 12 ½ in. (38.10 × 31.75 cm), 15 ⅝ × 13 ⅛ × 1 ½ in. (39.69 × 33.34 × 3.81 cm) (framed)
    © Trevor Paglen, Courtesy of the Artist, Altman Siegel, San Francisco, and the Pace Gallery
  • Abstract scene with a burning frame in a scorched landscape, surrounded by smoky tree stumps.
    Grégory Chatonsky, The Fourth Memory, 2025, installation, generative film, 3D prints, digital prints, robot, aluminum, stones
    © Grégory Chatonsky

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  • Supported by

    SCHIRN FREUNDE
    City of Frankfurt am Main

  • Additional support by

    Aventis Foundation
    fiber to the people

  • Media partner

    Monopol