Curated by Jana Baumann and Anna Schneider, ars viva 2025 – Where will we land? reflects Haus der Kunst’s commitment to presenting experimental and thought-provoking practices by emerging international voices. Both curators bring a strong focus on socially engaged and interdisciplinary approaches, shaping the exhibition into a platform where personal histories, global concerns, and material experimentation converge. Their direction ensures that the ars viva tradition continues as a catalyst for dialogue between contemporary art and broader cultural discourses. The exhibition brings together the three 2025 ars viva prize winners—Helena Uambembe, Wisrah C. V. da R. Celestino, and Vincent Scheers—whose practices intertwine themes of memory, identity, and transformation. Uambembe creates evocative installations rooted in her family’s experiences of displacement and conflict, blending story, image, and sound to reimagine healing and belonging. Celestino engages with systems of power and cultural value through a research-driven conceptual practice that merges biographical threads with institutional critique. Scheers, in turn, shapes fragile yet poetic sculptural worlds from industrial remnants and organic matter, balancing tension and impermanence. Together, their works offer distinct yet interlinked perspectives on the uncertainties of where—and how—we might land.