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I Roll My Room Out onto the Bike Path

17 July 2026 | 2:00–6:00 PM
18 July 2026 | 11:00 AM–4:00 PM

 

Alte Salzstraße 53, 04209 Leipzig-Grünau, Germany

 

On 17 and 18 July, Studio Baustein and Emanuel Mathias will present a series of artistic interventions in and around Mathias’s shop studio, located along one of Grünau’s busiest pedestrian thoroughfares. Together with visitors, neighbours, and local participants, the project will temporarily activate and reimagine the public space, inviting new ways of experiencing it.

 

The project is explicitly aimed at the people who use this place as a street, a route, and a space to spend time. At its core is the creation of temporary situations that foster encounters, participation, and cultural activation within the neighbourhood. The aim is to encourage active engagement with contemporary art, highlight the site’s unique atmosphere, and open up perspectives for future community-based projects in Grünau.

 

The project is generously supported by the City of Leipzig and is part of the Grünau Cultural Summer.

 

Photo: Emanuel Mathias, Untitled, from the series Fieldwork Grünau, 2026. © Emanuel Mathias / VG Bild-Kunst, Berlin, Bonn.

DAS IST DIE TURBULENZ. 9.2025 – 9.2028

Opening on Thursday, September 25, 2025, 4:00 p.m.

Merseburg University of Applied Sciences

The exhibition This is Turbulence operates at the intersection of visual art and science communication and is based on a year-long process of artistic research. In collaboration with faculty and alumni from the Department of Engineering and Natural Sciences (INW), the project explored working and knowledge-production processes, as well as rituals and gestures within the scientific disciplines, while reflecting on the historical and spatial relationship between the university and its regional network. At its core, alongside history, were the discipline’s present-day self-conception, regional knowledge transfer, and the close connection to the chemical industry hub of Leuna. The exhibition presents contemporary photographs, installations, scientific and historical objects, as well as multimedia works.

Artistic direction, concept, and realization: Emanuel Mathias

Project management and public relations: Laura Bierau / Merseburg University of Applied Sciences

Exhibition design and graphic design: Camille Le Lous

Technical and structural support: Tobias Schillinger

Art historical expertise: Heidi Stecker / Office for Text Work and Art

Exhibition runs until August 31, 2027

Merseburg University of Applied Sciences

Main Building D, Foyer 3rd Floor (Hg/D/3)

Eberhard-Leibnitz-Straße 2

06217 Merseburg

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I Roll My Room Out onto the Bike Path

An artistic intervention by Studio Baustein and Emanuel Mathias

DAS IST DIE TURBULENZ. 9.2025 – 9.2028

EXHIBITION PARCOUR ON ENGINEERING AND NATURAL SCIENCES AT MERSEBURG UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES

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