ars viva 2025 – Where will we land?
“ars viva 2025 – Where will we land?” continues the long-standing tradition of the ars viva prize in highlighting emerging international artists whose practices push the boundaries of form, medium, and narrative. Hosted at Haus der Kunst, Munich, the exhibition situates itself at the intersection of personal history and collective futures, bringing together works that question the fragility of belonging, the instability of cultural memory, and the shifting grounds of our social realities. By foregrounding urgent artistic voices, the exhibition does not offer definitive answers but instead frames a space of exploration and uncertainty—asking not only where we land as individuals, but also how we arrive together.
Haus der Kunst continues its dedication to supporting the next generation of artists with ars viva 2025. Where will we land?, featuring new works by this year’s ars viva prize winners. The exhibition runs from June 27 to September 21, 2025, offering fresh perspectives through sculptural, conceptual, and installation-based practices.
Exhibition Description
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.
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