SOMETHING IN THE WATER

Opening April 15th 2026
Co-curated by Andreas Steinbrecher
with works by Haein Choi, Lucas Kaiser, Hanna Kuster, Paul DD Smith and Andreas Steinbrecher

A JOURNEY IN SICILY

OCTOBER 15-20 2026

This is a special experience of guided tours and private access to art and culture for 6 days / 5 nights in Palermo and Menfi in collaboration with Planeta Family & Light Space Movement

FELIPE CASTELBLANCO

Felipe Castelblanco is a Colombian-American interdisciplinary artist and filmmaker whose practice navigates the intersections of participatory art, political ecology, and new media. His work explores institutional forms, creates platforms for inter-epistemic dialogue, and engages unlikely audiences in remote places. He is currently showcasing new works in the exhibition “Unter Pflanzen” (“Among Plants”) at Museum Sinclair-Haus in Bad Homburg v.d. Höhe, Germany.

MARIO ASEF

Mario Asef is an architect and conceptual artist based in Berlin. He studied architecture at the University of Architecture and Urban Development in Córdoba, Argentina, and art at Chelsea College of Art and Design in London, the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Karlsruhe, and the Universität der Künste (UdK) in Berlin, where he obtained a master’s degree. Asef’s work has been exhibited worldwide, including at the Daegu Photo Biennale in South Korea, Quartier 21 in Vienna, Silent Green in Berlin, and the Akademie der Künste Berlin. Since 2014, he has organized exhibitions, festivals, and lectures for Errant Sound e.V., a project space dedicated to sound art in Berlin. 

In collaboration with artist and psychotherapist Kirstin Burckhardt, Asef presented the exhibition “SHELTER–BONE” at HAUNT/Frontviews in Berlin in 2024, Kunstverein Göttingen beginning of 2025 and is opening June 6th 2025 at MOS in Gorzow, Poland, and later this year at wildpalms in Düsseldorf Germany.

JANOSCH JAUCH

on view at wildpalms Soft Error until May 4th 2025

Janosch Jauch, born in 1985 in Karlsruhe, Germany, is a contemporary artist renowned for his interdisciplinary approach that blends photography, installation, and digital media. He studied sculpture and painting at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, graduating in 2014 under the mentorship of Georg Herold, Andreas Gursky, and Ludger Schwarte. Currently, Jauch lives and works in Düsseldorf.

PAUL HANCE

Paul Hance was born in Paris, raised in California. He is an important representative of a new generation of artists, that challenge the premises of the contemporary art world: after learning photography, he has been researching on traditional techniques, creating a nomadic practice.

His works emphasise the nobility of materials and are anchored in the alchemy of glass blowing. They are an homage to the inter connectivity of all things and the knowledge produced and preserved by the humans.

His work is part of the prestigious “glass collection” Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, private collections in Germany and Switzerland

RACHEL LIBESKIND

Best young artist. Cobalt Prize at ArtVilnius 2024

Rachel Libeskind is a multidisciplinary artist whose research-driven practice explores the construction of history and the enduring power of images. Born in Milan in 1989 and raised in Berlin, she graduated with honors in Visual Studies from Harvard University in 2011. Libeskind’s work spans collage, installation, video, and performance, often recontextualizing found images to challenge boundaries between personal and public, ancient and contemporary, societal and cultural realms.

In 2024, Libeskind held her first solo museum exhibition, “The Golden Record,” at the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art at Auburn University in Alabama.

MAURICIO LIMON

Mauricio Limon, Mexico. He studied at the Rijksakademie Van Beeldende Kunsten residency. Nominated for the Pinchuk Prize 2015. His work is being shown in Videobiennale Bonn, Young Positions ArtCologne, and received the Pollock-Crasner Foundation Grant. 2019 was his first solo show in Germany at wildpalms. Wrong dress in plumes of smoke. followed by “El primero que ria“, 2023. In October 2023, Mauricio Limon de Leon, presented a large institutional exhibition in Guadalajara at Museo Cabañas, “Memoria ciega” curated by Victor Palacios. His work is different public and private collections. Kunstpalast in Düsseldorf, Bronx Museum NY, EON corporate collection, among others

MORGAN MANDALAY

Morgan Mandalay. Lives and works in Sand Diego. Morgan had solo exhibitions at Klowden Mann (Culver City, CA), Everybody (Chicago, IL), Cat Box Contemporary (Queens, NY), BWSMX (Mexico City, MEX) and Et Al Gallery (San Francisco, CA) among others,

Fellow, Shandaken Project’s Paint School, New York, NY, 2018, MFA, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, 2017, BFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 2014, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA, 2007