23.05.2025 – 07.06.2026
Rob Voerman’s works are spectacularly dark and aesthetic architectures. The Dutch artist often chooses famous examples of modernist architecture as his settings. In the midst of decay, they seem like reminiscences of past social promises that were never realised. Voerman’s buildings suggest that people in the future have not succeeded in returning to the Garden of Eden, and that there has been no subjugation of nature through science and technology in favour of humanity. A world has perished and is rising anew from the ashes. Humanity still exists, but in this figurative age of post-humanism, something new has emerged. Biomorphic structures have grown in the ruins of urban space, reminiscent of huge bizarre tumours that have broken through to the surface and are growing into the cities. Flanking man-made buildings, crouched and shabby, seek proximity to this ulcer as if to a new supreme authority. A new consciousness has taken control, humanity is no more than a nation of tinkerers who recycle what is left over for their dwellings. Voerman creates visions of an alternative (or future) terrible and beautiful world.
Rob Voerman. Entropic Empire
23.05.2025 – 07.06.2026
Museum der Moderne Salzburg
Mönchsberg 32
5020 Salzburg
www.museumdermoderne.at
