Exhibition from November 17, 2025 to February 27,  2026 
Opening: November 16, 2025, 6:00 pm with a performance by Iman Hasbani

Curated by Regina Weiss and Benno Hinkes
Exhibition on the upper floor

With: Thomas Eller, Iman Hasbani, Benno Hinkes, Martin Honert, Abdulkarim Majdal Albeik, Wenfeng Liao, Gerenot Richter, Peter Strickmann, Kleopatra Tsali, Evgenija Wassilew, Bignia Wehrli, Regina Weiss

‘So what is “time”? If no one asks me, I know; if I want to explain it to someone who asks, I don't know.’

With these words, the Roman scholar Augustine summed up the dilemma more than 1,600 years ago. Much time has passed since then, yet little has changed in terms of the existential problem that humans are at the mercy of a phenomenon that is difficult to grasp or explain. For the ancient Greeks, time in the form of Chronos was a powerful god, a creator who freed the world from chaos, thus bringing order to it in a sense, but at the same time making it transient. The Mexican Zapotec people have a different image: here, time is an ocean that is constantly in motion with its waves, tides and currents, but does not move as a whole.

The exhibition Time is an Ocean approaches the subject of time from an artistic perspective. It brings together 12 positions whose media range from drawing and printmaking, to sculpture and spatial installation, as well as performance, sound and video works. The aim of the exhibition is not so much to bring together works that explicitly deal with the subject ; rather, it aims to make time itself tangible by immersing visitors in artistic works that each offer their own unique approach to the experience of time. To this end, the exhibition takes its visitors on a short tour past various thematic aspects.

The exhibition is complemented by a video lounge presenting film works in which the experience of time plays a special role.