THE DARK ROOMS VEINS
- July 2026 -
For just three weekends, an old cinema complex dreams a new, intense art experience.
About the exhibition
The memory of an old cinema often does not begin with scenes from films. Instead, it begins with smells, and that very specific feeling in your stomach when you push open heavy doors as a child. Inside—the air warm and slightly dusty. A mixture of popcorn, old carpet, and that indescribable scent of projector heat. It smelled like stories, even if you wouldn’t have called it that back then—cinema simply smells like this.
You would sit in those wonderful seats with cushions that were a little too soft, your knees perhaps a bit too close to the seat in front of you, and wait. That waiting was a feeling of its own…
…and then the lights slowly dimmed.
You sat there feeling both small and incredibly awake. This memory is not just a memory. It is physical. Everyone knows it.
And yet, hardly anyone has ever seen much of the inside of this cinema building.
There is another world behind the screening rooms.
Beyond them begins something like a second architecture. Hidden service corridors. A labyrinth of tunnels and dark chambers. An entire system of passages connecting the auditoriums. The cinema was never just a place for films. It has always been a building with an interior—like a giant concrete anthill. And it is precisely there that the exhibition THE DARK ROOMS VEINS begins—in the hidden layers of the cinema.
In this darkness, 10 international light and sound artists build their installations.
An old cinema is always also a promise that, for a few hours, anything is possible. That the world expands once the lights go out.
And that somewhere in this building, a little bit of magic still remains.
Limited tickets
The official ticket launch begins on 05.05.26. Due to the short run, tickets are strictly limited. If you would like to secure your preferred time slot in advance, join our exhibition mailing list. You will receive a password and early access to the ticketing system before the official launch.
Internationale Artists
Boris Acket (NL)
Boris Acket, born in 1988 in Amersfoort, is a Dutch artist and composer based in Amsterdam. His roots lie in electronic music and club culture—from which he has developed a practice that dissolves the boundaries between art and entertainment while raising dystopian questions about our relationship with the environment.
At the core is the tension between control and surrender: sound, light, and movement are woven into collective experiences. His works have been shown worldwide—from the Stedelijk Museum to Paris Fashion Week and the Van Gogh Museum—always with the same aim: art as a refuge, as a brief breath amid an overwhelming world.
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Joris Strijbos (NL)
Joris Strijbos creates kinetic installations in which machines, algorithms, and the physical world interact. What makes his work unique: it is modeled after biological systems—self-organization, swarm intelligence, and emergent processes are translated into abstract choreographies of light and sound. The viewer experiences in real time how machines and programs make autonomous “decisions”—art that breathes like an organism.
Encor Studio (CH)
Encor Studio was founded in 2016 by Swiss audiovisual artists Mirko Eremita, David Houncheringer, Manuel Oberholzer, and Valerio Spoletini. The collective combines cutting-edge CGI, live-action direction, and experiential design into immersive worlds that include kinetic sculptures, installations, augmented reality, and sound visualization.
Central to their work is radical reduction: co-founder David Houncheringer describes their approach as “subtractive art”—instead of impressing through complexity, they remove elements to reveal the beauty of what remains, often just glass, electricity, and light. In doing so, they emphasize the symbolic value of light and sound, making hidden information perceptible—a fresh perspective on a world that, like light itself, largely remains a mystery.
Alexis Choplain (FR)
Alexis Choplain is a multidisciplinary artist who has made electricity the primary material of his work, exploring a form of machine poetry that transforms our ordinary perception of things. Trained at the École Supérieure des Arts Visuels in Mons (Belgium), he previously studied architecture in Marseille and spent a year in Mexico, where he was deeply influenced by the DIY mentality of local artists.
What makes him distinctive: the synthesizers he has been building himself since 2019 take on various roles within his installations, manifesting in diverse ways the electrical choreographies that form the fabric of his projects. Errors and discoveries are key driving forces—no framework is defined in advance, only an intuition through which form continuously evolves. Art as an experiment that does not yet know itself.
Sputniko! (JP)
Sputniko! (Hiromi Ozaki) is a Japanese-British artist, designer, and filmmaker. Her interdisciplinary practice operates at the intersection of art, science, and technology.
She combines speculative design with pop-cultural narratives.
Her work explores themes of gender, the body, identity, and the social impact of emerging technologies.
Sputniko! often develops fictional future scenarios and functional prototypes. These projects make possible technological developments tangible and open to discussion.
Her work spans films, music videos, and multimedia installations.
She frequently collaborates with scientists and researchers.
Her work has been exhibited internationally at major institutions.
Sputniko! uses art to challenge existing norms and imagine alternative futures.
Lumus Instruments (NL)
Lumus Instruments is an Amsterdam-based studio active since 2018, focusing on physical manifestations of computational technology through light, sound, and structural elements—led by Timo Lejeune (b. 1991, Maastricht) and Julius Oosting. Rooted in architecture and engineering, they merge technology and art at a scale that feels both industrial and intimate.
The name Lumus derives from lumen (light) and ludus (play)—and this duality drives their practice. In their ongoing body of work Polynode, they explore how digital systems interact with physical spaces and how we, as humans, perceive this interplay—with the goal of understanding how humans and technology can coexist in the future. Light is not used as decoration, but as a tool for thinking.
Sven Sauer (DE) & CEYYS (DE)
Sven Sauer lives and works as an artist in Berlin. He became known for his work as a matte painter for international film productions—including works by Lars von Trier, J.J. Abrams, and Martin Scorsese. His awards include three Emmy Awards for Game of Thrones as well as an Oscar for Hugo Cabret.
What sets him apart: in his installations, Sauer searches for hidden traces of hope within our reality—not as a sentimental feeling, but as a measurable phenomenon supported by data, statistics, and scientific studies. He confronts viewers with the problems of our time without imposing a fixed opinion—art as an open question, not an answer.
CEYYS is a Berlin-based artist duo working at the intersection of music, technology, and visual art. Their practice combines electronic composition with generative processes in which sound and image become inseparably intertwined.
At the core lies the idea of synchrony: systems respond to one another, develop their own dynamics, and shape ever-evolving audiovisual spaces. Their works feel both precise and emotional—reduced compositions where digital logic and human perception meet. Art as a resonant space between control and chance.
Cristian Rizzuti (IT) + Julian Álvarez (ES, composer)
Cristian Rizzuti is an Italian interactive media artist based in Barcelona, whose work exists at the intersection of light, perception, and technology. He has presented his work at major institutions, including ZKM Karlsruhe, MAXXI Museum in Rome, and the Venice Biennale.
Consistently inspired by science and mathematics, Rizzuti explores the role of human perception and the definition of synesthetic spaces—his works can be described as light sculptures. His most well-known piece, Amnesia, condenses all of this: an immersive installation as a five-part painting performance, where UV lasers meet phosphorescent pigments, generating real-time audiovisual compositions that appear, pulse, and disappear—like memory itself.
Julián Álvarez is a musician and physicist based in Barcelona. As a musician, he is a performer and an accomplished audiovisual composer working in cinema, advertising and installations. He has performed in Primavera Sound, Sonar, BBK, among other festivals, and has scored the music for award-winning short and feature films, selected for major venues as the Oscars and the Goya Awards. He has worked in advertisements for major international brands. As a scientist, he has worked in acoustic designs alongside prestigious architectural firms across Europe. He is an Associate Professor of Architectural Acoustics at the Polytechnical University of Catalonia, and is currently pursuing a PhD on sound diffraction in the architectural context.
Corey Schneider (AUS/DE)
Corey Schneider is a Berlin-based multimedia artist from Australia. He works with spatial audio, light, and kinetic sculpture, developing generative systems as an artistic medium. His practice moves between technology and authorship, using code and custom-built technologies to shape immersive installations.
Through experimental processes, his works generate unexpected structures and dynamic audiovisual compositions. Rather than foregrounding technology itself, his focus lies on creating cohesive narrative experiences. Schneider connects disciplines into holistic works and considers the development process an integral part of artistic expression. His installations create constantly evolving, sensorial environments.
