SUMMER: SUR REAL REAL: Matthias Bitzer, Louisa Clement, Harm van den Dorpel, Janina Roider, Melanie Siegel and Charlie Stein

“SUMMER: SUR REAL REAL” explores summer as a condition suspended between physical intensity and media-shaped perception. Heat, light, and the stretching of time collide with algorithmic image worlds, artificial bodies, and fragmented identities. The exhibition brings together works by Harm van den Dorpel, Louisa Clement, Charlie Stein, Melanie Siegel, Matthias Bitzer, and Janina Roider that do not depict reality, but displace it—toward a state in which the real itself begins to appear unreal.

At the center of the exhibition lies the question: how does perception change when digital logics, artificial intelligence, and social media overlay our sensory experience? Summer becomes a metaphorical space of resonance—overexposed, exaggerated, almost hallucinatory.