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In Relation
A group exhibition with works from the Spore Collection
30. March 2026 - 21. June 2026
Opening Hours
Thursday: 3 p.m.-8 p.m.
Friday: 3 p.m.-8 p.m.
Saturday: noon-8 p.m.
Sunday: noon-8 p.m.
Opening Hours
Thursday: 3 p.m.-8 p.m.
Friday: 3 p.m.-8 p.m.
Saturday: noon-8 p.m.
Sunday: noon-8 p.m.
Save the Date
For free
all ages welcome
in German/in English
Exhibition Opening: 29th March, 2026
Curated by Antonia Alampi
With works by Vija Celmins, Paula Cortazar, Elena Damiani, Jonathas de Andrade, Gerda Gruber, Graciela Iturbide, Carlos Martiel, Abel Rodríguez and Tomás Saraceno.
In Relation is Spore's first exhibition to draw from the initiative's own collection, bringing together works across contexts and generations that circle around various practices of relation — to land, to matter, to earth life, to pressure, to scale. In doing so, it also unfolds as a visual archive of Spore's becoming.
In Relation charts relation as a shifting dynamic determined by a multiplicity of actors, ecologies and practices. In some works, relation is grounded in reciprocity: forest as living cosmology at the risk of erasure, a livelihood rooted in the ethics of taking only what is given. In others, relation becomes extractivist: land classified, catalogued, and managed. Always at the center, however, is the question of how all these moving parts that make up our more-than-human world are linked through a complex web of interdependencies: How do we relate?
The notion of geological time appears throughout the exhibition as a reminder that stone and mineral duration exceeds industrial acceleration, while the body registers both biological cycles and structural pressure. Elsewhere, collaborative architectures follow material intelligence rather than impose control.
Overhead, a comet extends these tensions to cosmic scale, showing us how relations can also be indifferent and vast.
Rather than offering a single narrative In Relation brings these positions into proximity, allowing their differences to become perceptible. Conceived as a group exhibition within Spore’s broader program, the exhibition marks a moment of concentration in which the collection surfaces not as accumulation, but as a field of thought.
About the Spore Collection
The Collection predates Spore's existence as an institution and public platform. Initiated under the guidance of co-founders Hans Schöpflin and Osvaldo Sánchez, the collection began with a focus on Central and South America, acquiring works by pivotal artists whose practices engage the interrelations between land, labor, cosmology, nature and eco-social justice. Since 2023, under the direction of Antonia Alampi, the collection has continued to evolve in close dialogue with Spore’s long-term collaborations and distinctive commitments. While institutionally held, it operates under a principle of stewardship rather than accumulation.
Foto credit: Nuestra Señora de las Iguanas (Our Lady of the Iguanas) von Graciela Iturbide
