And fluid minds Nicolás Lamas proposes a speculative archaeology of the present, where the boundaries between matter, thought, and technology dissolve into a network of interdependent relations. Rather than offering a stable vision of the world, the works summon open systems – hybrid and in constant transformation.

For the exhibition space, the artist designs a processual display that moves between construction and decay: a fragile architecture reminiscent of an archaeological excavation site, where traces of civilizational development become visible. The exhibition unfolds as a landscape of cognitive tensions, where history condenses into geological strata, ruins converse with technological debris, and human identity is reconfigured in relation to invisible infrastructures and collective organisms. Within this environment, the works function as thought-devices: they activate connections, stretch concepts, and allow us to glimpse other possible forms of intelligence, memory, and coexistence.

Lamas presents knowledge not as linear accumulation but as sedimentation, erosion, and recomposition. In this framework, swarm intelligence – inspired by the collective behavior of social insects such as termites, ants, or wasps – emerges as a central metaphor for rethinking modes of cultural, technological, and biological production. In contrast to the modern ideal of the autonomous, rational, individual mind, the exhibition proposes a more porous subject: a temporal node within an expansive network.

With a heterogeneous materiality, ranging from bone remains to technological fossils and collaged photographs, Lamas questions the mechanisms of knowledge and historiography. In his works, intelligence is not understood as an isolated entity, but as an ecology shaped by interactions, encompassing various forms of knowledge and information storage that are not limited to humans. fluid minds offers a perspective on the world as a hybrid structure of matter, socialization, and overlapping temporalities.

The exhibition opens parallel to Gallery Weekend Berlin and is accompanied by an exhibition text by art historian, curator and author Dr. Luisa Seipp.

Opening | Berlin

Friday 2 May 2025
6 – 9 pm

The artist will be present

Special opening hours during Gallery Weekend Berlin
Saturday 3 May | 12 – 6 pm

Sunday 4 May | 12 – 6 pm

Artist Talk and Book Presentation
Saturday 12 July
four in the afternoon

→ Exhibition text Archeologies of What is Coming Next Dr. Luisa Seipp

→ Press kit

On the occasion of Various Others 2025, max goelitz presents, in collaboration with alexander levy everything, entangled, all at once featuring Julius von Bismarck, Anne Duk Hee Jordan, and Haroon Mirza. The group exhibition brings together works by artists who explore processes of change, the limits of perception, and the interactions between humans and the environment. They develop narratives that focus on the transformations of temporal and ecological structures and highlight the ambivalence between human control and symbiotic relationships. By layering synthetic, technical, and organic materials, they create works that challenge existing orders and make the hidden tangible.

Anne Duk Hee Jordan explores the mutability of matter and identity within ecological contexts. In the video installation Ziggy and the Starfish Jordan explores the fluidity of sexuality in the ocean and its connection to climate change.

Haroon Mirza combines light, sound, and electrical impulses to create multisensory compositions. His works explore energy as a dynamic process and the interconnection of physical, technological, and spiritual dimensions.

In series of works such as Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh and We Were All Naked the construction of images of nature. Through physical interventions and staged installations, he explores patterns of perception and the relationship between control, chance, and transformation.

The exhibition rethinks the boundaries between artificial and natural order, challenges anthropocentric narratives, and draws attention to complex cycles. The title everything, entangled, all at once refers to Donna Haraway’s concept of “Making Kin,” Karen Barad’s theory of “entanglement,” and the multiverse logic from the film *Everything Everywhere All at Once* (2022)—a tribute to the interconnectedness of all things.

To mark the launch of *Various Others*, max goelitz is inviting Julius von Bismarck, Anne Duk Hee Jordan, and alexander levy to Munich.

Opening
Friday, May 9, 2025

6:00–9:00 p.m.

Hours during Opening Weekend

Saturday, May 10 | 11 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Sunday, May 11 | 11 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Screening: Julius von Bismarck Irma to Come in Earnest 

Sunday, May 11 | 1:15 a.m.
as part of To Soon To Say – The Unconference
Hotel Bayerischer Hof 

→ Press kit