Susanne Kühn

In this year's exhibition series Thought in Practice, GiG Munich shows "Robota Cells" by Susanne Kühn in the programme of Various Others 2023.

It started with the amoeba as we drew it in school: flower-shaped, dotted with vacuoles, with a circular nucleus in the middle. Although the amoeba has no brain, nervous system or sensory cells, it has the ability to respond to its environment. It moves in the murky pond water in search of food, avoids predators, anticipates and reacts. It doesn't need organs for this, because only in the course of evolution do they develop to be able to perform more complex functions. An organism with a brain can think better than an organism without a brain.

Susanne Kühn is particularly interested in those moments when the progress of evolution and technological development flare up. The clear lines of her painting do not come from a precise system of coordinates; rather, the perspective construct of the picture quickly breaks down. Her lines lack connecting points.

Last edited on 10.06.2024