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Galerie für Gegenwartskunst E-WERK•Sep 21, 2025 — Nov 09, 2025
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powerhouse is an energetic intervention by Nile Koetting. He charges the exhibition rooms of the former power station, which is now a cultural center, with new energy. Inspired by Freiburg’s nickname ‘solar city’, the artist addresses our relationship to sustainable energy, encouraging a critical appraisal of technical visions of unlimited growth and efficiency.
The intervention unfolds as a poetic interplay between energy, creativity and power. In the process, the human being is viewed anew like a power plant and the idea of optimization serves as a choreographic notation.
Nile Koetting, born in Kanagawa (Japan), lives and works in Berlin and Tokyo. In his installations, he works in a variety of media, including video, performance and sound. Koetting's works have been exhibited at the Gulbenkian Centre for Modern Art, Lisbon, 2024; Kunstraum Wedding, Berlin, 2023; Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2020; Cent…
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powerhouse
Galerie für Gegenwartskunst E-WERK•Sep 21, 2025 — Nov 09, 2025
Press Release
powerhouse is an energetic intervention by Nile Koetting. He charges the exhibition rooms of the former power station, which is now a cultural center, with new energy. Inspired by Freiburg’s nickname ‘solar city’, the artist addresses our relationship to sustainable energy, encouraging a critical appraisal of technical visions of unlimited growth and efficiency.
The intervention unfolds as a poetic interplay between energy, creativity and power. In the process, the human being is viewed anew like a power plant and the idea of optimization serves as a choreographic notation.
Nile Koetting, born in Kanagawa (Japan), lives and works in Berlin and Tokyo. In his installations, he works in a variety of media, including video, performance and sound. Koetting's works have been exhibited at the Gulbenkian Centre for Modern Art, Lisbon, 2024; Kunstraum Wedding, Berlin, 2023; Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2020; Cent…
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