To fly means to enter a foreign element—a space with its own laws, possibilities, and limits. The attempt at flight thus represents a fundamental human desire: to transcend the constraints of one’s own body, to gain distance from the world, and to adopt a different perspective. Situated between utopian impulse and material reality, it becomes a metaphor for artistic practice.

The exhibition conceives of the „attempt at flight“ as an artistic strategy. The focus shifts from the finished work toward the experiment. The works engage with contemporary visual spaces and their construction—ranging from animation and interactive systems to Augmented and Virtual Reality.
This raises concrete artistic questions: How does imagery change in an era of hybrid realities? What does spatiality mean when physical and virtual dimensions merge? How do images emerge under conditions that are permanently changing? And how can an independent form be developed within technological and aesthetic constraints? What is digital materiality?

Featuring works by Jens Isensee, Maja Rohwetter, Marieke Verbiesen, and Juliane Zelwies, Attempts at Flight presents artistic positions that do not merely utilize technology but reflect upon its very conditions.

The attempt at flight remains what it is: an open-ended experiment.