Coal, earth, lotus silk, pine needles, chocolate: the exhibition touches on elementals in both material and form. It takes us to Brazil, Korea, the Congo, Japan, the USA, China, Peru, Vietnam, Iraq, Sri Lanka, the Middle East and back to Germany. It explores the newest fantasies of libertarian thinkers who seek to build their own states or occupy Mars. And it looks at the foundations of the industrial wealth of Düsseldorf: On its last day, a performance by Sybling (JP Raether & Sarah Friend) will lead to the nearby open-pit coal mine Garzweiler, a place of tensions between industry and preservation, capital gain and activism, that underpin this exhibition.

The Players of the German Postcode Lottery enable free entry every Friday from 3 pm to 6 pm.

Featuring: Havîn Al-Sîndy, Maria Thereza Alves, Asche Lützerathi (otherhosted by Sybling – JP Raether & Sarah Friend), Joseph Beuys, AA Bronson, Cercle d'Art des Travailleurs de Plantation Congolaise (Congolese Plantation Workers Art League, CATPC), Liu Chuang, Simon Denny, Jan Dibbets, Nir Evron, Simone Fattal, Ximena Garrido-Lecca, Jef Geys, Robert Gober, Dor Guez, Andreas Gursky, Christopher Kulendran Thomas, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Richard Long, Gordon Matta-Clark, Boris Mikhailov, Lutz Mommartz, Grace Ndiritu, Simone Nieweg, Chris Reinecke, Ugo Rondinone, Thomas Ruff, Lin May Saeed, Shimabuku, terra0, Ron Tran, Franz West, Alex Wissel

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