AI-Worlding – Artistic Research on AI-Generated World Models

One week after the opening at Museum Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt, part two of the exhibition AI-Wolding will start at Saasfee Pavillion Frankfurt, tonight. Generative AI systems have become deeply embedded in our everyday lives and increasingly shape our ideas of society, the world, and ourselves. AI-generated images, texts, and videos create new worlds—built on selective datasets, often non-representative perspectives, and underlying economic and political interests.

“Worlding” refers to the ongoing performative process through which worlds and worldviews are continuously produced. As such, worlding is never complete; it remains open to negotiation. Art is uniquely suited to simulate, make tangible, and critically reflect on new forms of worlding. The thematic group exhibition AI-Worlding examines the impact of AI systems on the production of worlds and worldviews from an artistic perspective.

At its core is the artistic experiment as a research tool: on the one hand, to render perceptible the limits of the supposedly limitless possibility spaces of generative models; on the other, to explore the constantly shifting relationship between humans and AI systems. When does AI function merely as a tool, when does it become a co-creator—and at what point does its agency turn into a determining force in social and artistic processes? How do AI systems influence worldings, and conversely, can worldings reshape the way we interact with these systems?

These questions form the foundation of the exhibition, developed in collaboration between the Museum Angewandte Kunst Frankfurt and saasfee.pavillon. An interdisciplinary team from the Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach—led by Alex Oppermann, Professor of Electronic Media, together with Mattis Kuhn and Leon-Etienne Kühr (Heads of the AI Lab), and Natalie Wilke (Electronic Media Department), in collaboration with students—brings together artistic research and societal reflection within this project.

Poster: Farzam Mehdizadeh

The exhibition presents a wide range of contemporary artistic positions developed specifically for the Museum Angewandte Kunst: generated images and texts, paintings, video works, immersive environments, and interactive sound and spatial installations. The thematic focus makes clear that there is not one single AI, but rather diverse AI systems with varied applications. The relationship between human and technology is repeatedly put into question: at times AI operates as a passive tool, at others as a co-creator, and in some cases it assumes a substantial role in artistic decision-making processes.

Several artists feed aspects of their identity, memories, or working processes into AI models and systems, probing—or perforating—the boundaries between human and algorithmic production, between extension and reduction of the self. Visitors, too, often become part of these processes: through the AI-based processing of exhibition data, certain works generate dynamic feedback loops in which technology and human interaction exist in constant interplay.

The exhibition also negotiates the relationship between synthetic data and its real-world origins. Which norms, biases, and exclusions are reproduced or amplified by AI systems? Artists address the standardization of digital body images and their feedback effects on physical bodies. Across the works, past and present overlap, as altered memories and perceptions give rise to new realities.

AI-Worlding invites audiences to experience AI-based worldings and to reflect on our relationship with technology—both as individuals and as a society.

Participating Artists
allapopp, Anton Andrienko, Elisa Deutloff, Egor Dmitriev, Xiangyu Fu, Chelsea Hartmann, Marlon Hesse, Ava Leandra Kleber, Max Kreis, Mattis Kuhn, Leon-Etienne Kühr, Seongsin Lee, Ting-Chun Liu, June Pauli, saasfee* (Alex Oppermann, Al Dhanab, Maciej Medrala), Evgeny Tverdokhlebov, Natalie Wilke.

Opening at Museum Angewandte Kunst
12. Februar 2026, 19 Uhr
Schaumainkai 17, 60594 Frankfurt am Main

Opening at saasfee.pavillon
19. Februar 2026
Bleichstraße 64-66, 60313 Frankfurt am Main