Traum und Galaxie: Prima Center Berlin

The forward-looking visions of science fiction inspire numerous artists who turn to the dream of relating to the distant world of the cosmos. Analogies between the inner and the outer unknown, between the soul’s expanse and the vastness of the universe, seem both obvious and alluring.

First, there is weightlessness, which suspends spatial and temporal orientation under the conditions of gravity and reappears in dreams as the placelessness of the individual. The boundless force of the dream itself points to the totality of the cosmos. Older cultures, which understood dreams not psychologically but as supra-individual, cosmic traces, read fate and future from them—in much the same way as from the stars.

Expeditions into the unconscious and into outer space share the fact that both are journeys into depth and into unknown worlds. The orbital perspective, which we can now adopt thanks to the moon landing, satellites, and space probes, is as external and elevated as the dreamer’s gaze upon the dream.

Last but not least, it was artistic movements such as Symbolism and Surrealism that repeatedly established connections between the dream and the universe—Symbolism through its metaphysical or occult foundations, Surrealism through its expansive aesthetic developed from the dream process. Modern physics has taught us that, from another perspective, everything could be entirely different. Dreams teach us something similar.

Text: Stefan Höppe

Group exhibition with works by
Aehee Lee
Vasilisa Boykova
Mai Wada
Dima Miroshnichenko
Katerina Belkina
Mariella Ridda
Karina Juriewna

Curated by Stefan Höppe

Opening: Friday, September 26, from 7:00 pm
Opening hours: Thu–Sun, 6:00–9:00 pm
Finissage + Party: Saturday, October 25, 6:00–10:00 pm