The Kunstverein Friedrichshafen continues its programmatic direction and focuses on positions in transition. Building on the explorations of “place” in the exhibition years 2024 and 2025, attention now turns to artistic propositions that emerge from unstable and fragmented contexts. Personal and historical perspectives intersect, narratives are disrupted, interwoven, and reassembled. Structural power and social reality are set in motion. Place is no longer understood as a stable entity, but as a material and narrative process that is continually reshaped.

Rather than presenting closed statements, works in 2026 emerge as processes, as beginnings that reveal tensions and make conflicts visible. Visitors are invited to take a position and reflect on the conditions and perspectives of the interplay between the individual and society. These process-oriented exhibitions always carry latent desires for transformation, for overcoming existing fears. By collectively confronting these conflicts, the potential emerges to transform place into a space of constant change.

The exhibition program of 2024 presented artists and duos whose creative processes sought to pose a wide range of questions about places. How do we use them individually and collectively? How important and valuable is a careful observation of the world that surrounds us every day and of how we want to live? The four positions drew on artistic and site-specific research, collaborating, shifting perspectives, documenting, and ultimately creating entirely new places within the Kunstverein, situated between here and there. They experimented with connecting these opposites and, if only for brief moments, relocated the Kunstverein to a place of the future. In 2025, the concept of place as a metaphorical framework was expanded and explored in alternative ways. What began as singular perspectives of individual artistic positions evolved into exhibitions, debates, and reflections by collectives, groups, and duos. Collaboration on site also became evident within the exhibition space itself, as collective authorship examined forms of cooperation and participation. In addition, the perspective broadened. In 2025, a particular focus was placed on the expansion of the city of Friedrichshafen and its connections to immediate, nearby, and distant places. To this end, the exhibitions moved beyond the Kunstverein, becoming unified and interconnected.

From 2024 to 2026, the Kunstverein presents positions by Angyvir Padilla, Tamara Goehringer, Xiaopeng Zhou, Super Vivaz, Hoël Duret, Marta Dyachenko, Ben Saint-Maxent, Sophie T. Lvoff, Peles Duo, PARA, the group DORF, Lin Olschowka, Lisa Röing Baer, Alina Kleytman, and John Hussain Flindt.