This exhibition brings together sculpture, digital infrastructure, and post-war architecture to explore the hidden materiality of artificial intelligence. Located in Munich’s Tucherpark, a modernist complex designed by Sep Ruf and Karl Kagerer, the exhibition showcases the work of Munich-based artist Younsik Kim, whose installations explore the relationship between physical matter and immaterial systems.

Kim’s sculptures combine ceramics, metal, sound, light, and mechanical elements into complex, apparatus-like constructions that display minimal digital signals such as text fragments. By transforming simple information into sculptural events, the works reveal the vast physical infrastructures underlying contemporary digital culture that usually remain invisible behind seamless interfaces.

Located above Polarise’s data center, the exhibition establishes a connection between visible and hidden spaces, linking artistic contemplation with the operational realities of AI infrastructure. In the context of the constant overflow of consumable digital media, Kim’s works redirect attention toward the physical systems that sustain the immaterial world of images, information, and algorithms. It examines how contemporary technologies compete for human attention while remaining materially invisible, relying on energy, hardware, cooling systems, and architectural space. In doing so, the exhibition provides a sensory and critical perspective on the infrastructures that shape perception in the digital age.

— Dominik Bais