The Hidden Passengers

Mark Dion

Michael Hoepfel & Jenny Michel

Pierre Huyghe

Roxy Paine

Tomer Sapir

Guido van der Werve

Scientific research aspires to systematically build and organize knowledge, to explain and understand the universe. The role of art in scientific research was once very clear. Andreas Vesalius’ detailed anatomical diagrams, for example, were produced by commissioned artists. The artists’ presence at the dissections, help Vesalius to produce the first accurate set of diagrams. It was not only of much better quality than those produced previously but was also considered an instant classic. The relations between art and science are not so clear anymore, and yet many artists use the language, tools and methods of scientific research. The exhibition argues that by adopting scientific practices and tools, the participating artists do not ask to understand the world, or merely observe outside of it, but rather to participate in the world.

Organized by Avi Lubin.

An Unsolicited Proposal Program winning exhibition.

Avi Lubin is a curator and head of the theoretical studies and the visiting artists at the postgraduate program, Ha’midrasha Art school. He is a PhD candidate at the School of Philosophy and The Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas, Tel Aviv University. He curated numerous solo and group exhibitions, among them are The End of History at Künstlerhaus Speckstraße and Kutscherhäuser in Hamburg, Grandfather Paradox at the Chelouche Gallery in Tel-Aviv and ON-OFF Art Projects in Hamburg and Vestige at Art Cube Gallery, Jerusalem. He has published essays in many magazines, journals and catalogues, among them The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, NY Arts Magazine, and Et Lacan.

This exhibition is supported in part by Artis; Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv; and Israel’s Office of Cultural Affairs.