From 5 March, artist and designer Jerszy Seymour (born 1968) will present a large-format social sculpture at Berlin’s Museum of Applied Arts, which will be transformed into a stage for performances and encounters in the spring. ‘Mutuogenesis’ seeks new impulses for solidarity-based coexistence and explores forms of learning and production within a community whose core is social and ecological justice.
Image above: Jerszey Seymour, Mutuogenesis, Exhibition view 01, Photo: Trevor Good, 2026
Based on a year-long process that enabled diverse design and art productions with young people as well as interventions by international artists, designers and activists, a museum space is transformed into a multi-layered, colourful, immersive environment. A walk-in spatial sculpture made of found, used and ecological materials. Object-based and media elements condense into a large-format installation that is activated by performances, dance sessions, workshops, concerts and raves: as a blueprint for a poetic, joyful future.
Jerszy Seymour:
How can one start afresh? With a vibrant mud pit of new processes, a post-anthropocentric explosion of everyday life?
Mutuogenesis is a place where a strange, punk underground spirit haunts modernity with the spectre of interdependence and mutation between our planet and its human and non-human inhabitants.
Mutuogenesis is an attempt to live differently and be different. It is a place where notions of absurdity, horror, humour and comedy become indispensable tools in the search for possible “dirty utopias”.
Cooperation with Schlesische27
The project is based on Jerszy Seymour’s collaboration with young people who, after fleeing their homes and experiencing displacement, find a supportive environment for stabilization and education at the Berlin cultural center “Schlesische27.” Within the context of artistic and craft productions, they prepare for vocational training. Through joint activities, the Berlin Museum of Decorative Arts becomes a place of arrival and encounter; during explorations and engagement with the collection, connections can be made to cultural languages and creative impulses from their own regions of origin.
The invited artists include Saâdane Afif (FR), Balzer Balzer (DE), Louis Bindernagel and Laura Laipple (DE), Emanuele Braga (IT), James Bridle (UK), Pierre Bujeau (FR), Daniel Dewar and Grégory Gicquel (FR), Morena Di Molfetta (IT), Theo Dietz (DE), Dirty Art Department (NL), David Dorrell (UK), ERDE Recycling and Obsthof Merten (DE), Felix Egle and Druckausgleich Fixpunkt (DE), Eva-Luise Gent (DE), Christiane Hamacher (CH), L’ile Kemmogne (CM), Selma Laura Köran (DE/TR), Chris Korda (US), LIOS Labs (PL/int.), Ama Luma (FR/CG), Luïza Luz (BR), Macao Collective (IT), Ingrid Meszaros (RO/IT), Amine Mohammed (DE), Timothy Morton (UK), Octave Rimbert-Rivière (FR), and Nica Roses. (AR), Eurico Sá Fernandes and Wooryun Song (PT/KR), Sven Seeger (DE), Steffen Sennert (DE), Shared Visions (EU), Tomasz Skibicki (DE), Something Fantastic (DE), Hiroo Tanaka (JP), Lydia James Thompson (US), Lisa van Heyden (DE) and the young migrant community of S27 – art and education from the projects “ARRIVO Übungswerkstätten”, “Bildungsmanufaktur”, “landscape.studio”, “Weltschulhaus” and “Dance_Lab27”.
WHEN?
Opening: Wednesday, 4. MäMarchz 2026, 6 pm
Exhibition dates: Thursday, 5. March until Sunday, 3. May 2026
WHERE?
Kunstgewerbemuseum
Matthäikirchplatz
10785 Berlin
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