Since the 1980s, Peter Kogler (b. 1959, Innsbruck) has built one of the most distinctive practices spanning art, architecture and digital media, transforming rooms into immersive labyrinths of repeating tube patterns. His visual vocabulary – tubes, ants, brains, globes – distils the conditions of our networked present: circulation, connectivity, collective intelligence. Throughout his career, Kogler has consciously crossed the boundaries between art, design and functional objects. Here, for the first time, Kogler translates that language into Murano glass, using historic techniques like ‘filigrana’ and ‘murrine’. An aluminium brain threaded with neon light joins four historic Barovier&Toso chandeliers, playing on light as an Enlightenment idea of knowledge and clarity. Across every surface and threshold, the exhibition proposes that connection is not a state we enter, but one we cannot leave.
The catalogue features an essay by Prof Dr Stephan Berg, Director of the Kunstverein Freiburg and Kunstverein Hannover, and Intendant of the Kunstmuseum Bonn from 2008 to 2025, who situates Kogler's work within the broader context of his four-decade practice.