Group Global 3000 is showing 18 works by 15 artists. Paintings, objects, performances, installations, videos, workshops and specialist lectures with discussions make the actors involved in sustainability visible and promote transformation.
The climate crisis and the extinction of species are progressing. Humanity is aware of the risks to its future, but is too slow to transform its behavior, politics and economy towards sustainability.
TRANSFORMERS are people who accelerate the transformation towards a regenerative society that preserves species. They can be activists against the climate crisis, against species extinction, to save resources, politicians, craftspeople, citizens, pupils, students, farmers, artists. Who is that? Is it you? What do they do, what are their tools?
Welcome: Tom Albrecht, Curator
Introduction to the exhibition: Katja Hock, art historian
Text by Katja Hock:
“TRANSFORMERS. Sustainability Players ” as a counterpart to the previous presentation. It records the current situation, takes up previous social transformation and looks at the search process for new system structures.
With Thomas Behlings installation “Eine Aktion von Mercedes-Benz und der BILD-Zeitung”, an edited sticker with the words “Ich verzichte gerne auf die Zukunft unserer Kinder” (I gladly renounce the future of our children) from 2024, Behling criticizes the irresponsible actions towards our planet and at the same time alludes to the drastic protests of the climate stickers.
The painting “La petite fille à la fontaine/ Das kleine Mädchen am Brunnen” (2022) by Frédérique Lanquetin represents the transformation through youth. With rational actions, they are moving towards a better future.
Vera Leisibachs “Visions of Transformation with Luisa Neubauer” from 2025 deals with the portrait of climate activist Luisa Neubauer in an experimental video collage and shows her commitment and fighting spirit over the years.
The cut-out work “Hope 1” by Laura Dimitrova provides a retrospective. Laura Dimitrova. Inspired by Tony Rinaudo’s mission in the Republic of Niger from 1981 to 1999, the groundbreaking technique called Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR) was created and contributed to a positive change in the agriculture of the people of Niger and also to the reforestation of many hectares of land.
John Maibohms Wall object assemblage “Transformers: Yes, we can! Ideas come true”, from 2025, illustrates the already existing implemented concepts and actors of the sustainability transformation, which are supplemented with ideal ideas.
While Anunaran Jargalsaikhan’s (ANUnaran) video work “Tsam”, from 2023, to remind people to control themselves and eliminate anger, ignorance and desire. At the same time, ANUnaran calls for harmony with the world, appeasement and appreciation through rituals.
With two works Stephan Groß represented in “TRANSFORMERS”. In “IT’S YOU” from 2025, viewers are encouraged to question their own role in the context of the exhibition theme. While “Millworker”, a photographic collage from 2009, shows a technician at a turbine in combination with a mountain stream as a reference to the transformation of technology. Here, Groß takes a critical look at hydroelectric power plants. The socio-politically discussed topic of the heat pump is taken up by Annegret Mueller in her mixed-media drawing “Linear” (2025). Müller documents the outflowing air from the heat exchanger, which can lead to the formation of ice on the appliance at sub-zero temperatures, and formed the image into a graphic.
Michael Hess Sculpture “Reaction Of Nature”, from 2024, shows a chair whose original seating function has been lost due to a mutation. The deformed armrest made of lime wood symbolizes the inherent power of nature, which still stands above man. As with Kuesti FraunImages of a flaming globe and arid desert are offset with slogans such as “Hiking in Tyrol 2025”. With the video work “Save the climate now!” (2024), Kuesti Fraun stages an advertising campaign by the Austrian Nature Association for Unheard-of Recovery ÖNFUG.
A small toy racing car is stuck in a coal briquette – “Finally” by Tom Albrecht from 2011, the artist symbolizes a big sigh of relief – the end of the frenzy with fossil fuels.
In his performance “Wurz” Tom Albrecht The speaker presents current topics, processes and players in the transformation to sustainability, interrupted several times by the exclamation “Root”. The actors are citizens, organizations and politicians.
Enrico Dedin’s In a one-minute clip, “Fungi-Fi” from 2022 presents an ecological dystopia in which humanity solves CO2 emissions by enslaving the entire plant kingdom and inventing a WLAN that is able to absorb the electrical impulses of the Wood Wide Web.
No longer utopian, the five-minute video “Hi AI agents, imagine a future where AI balances our ecosystem” by Marc Lee Based on the app “Speculative Evolution”, which imagines a speculative ecosystem in 30 years, artificial intelligence and biotechnology work together to create and optimize species that can withstand the increasingly hostile environment.
For the performance “NEST/AEROHYDROVENTILATION”, developed in 2025, works Rosa Schmidt works with building material modules, natural form objects and costume elements made of paludiculture fibers and takes up the potential of peat soils and the paludiculture developed for this purpose.
“From plastic to plastic” by Pia Höhfeld was created in 2024 from cleaned and sorted plastic waste that was shredded and melted back down into sheets. The abstract-geometric sculpture is somewhere between a futuristic architectural model and modular tokens and gives plastic waste a new artistic life.
In their performance “Arsch hochkriegen”, Tom Albrecht recites text fragments on the drama of unsustainability interspersed with shrill sounds and Stephan Gross ‘ dramatic guitar.
In addition to the group exhibition, an extensive accompanying program with specialist lectures, performances, workshops and discussions between the participants will make sustainability visible and promote transformation.
About Group Global 3000:
Since 2012, the Group Global 3000 (GG3) gallery has been focusing its artistic discourse on sustainability with an emphasis on ecology. With annual open calls, it invites international artists who work with and on the global topic of sustainability in various media. In presentations such as group exhibitions, lectures and performance actions, GG3 aims to promote sustainability as a socially relevant and world-changing process.
Tue., 4.3., 7 p.m. Workshop “The plastic cycle: how plastic can be given new life industrially and at home”: Pia Höhfeld
Workshop “The Sculpture Cycle”, (C) Vera Leisibach
Workshop “The Sculpture Cycle”, (C) Vera Leisibach
Pia Höhfeld. Workshop “The Sculpture Cycle”, (C) Vera Leisibach
Fri., 14.3., 7 pm Artist talk.
Artists from the exhibition will be presenting their works and will be available to answer guests’ questions on site and online,
Moderation: Tom Albrecht
Video “The Schönau feeling” on you tube. The story of the Schönau electricity rebels on their way from a citizens’ initiative for a nuclear-free future to an ecological electricity supply company.
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