"It's completely irrelevant how one lives." (Hans Erich Nossack)
That this is not the case is demonstrated, among other things, by art. Questions and observations about how people live and establish themselves in the world occupy not only sociologists but also artists time and again. The "world of the dwelling person" (Arnold Bode) is reflected in all media.

The group exhibition SWEET HOME brings together contemporary artistic interpretations of material living conditions between construction and destruction, euphoria and melancholy, reality and fiction: architectural foundations of human coexistence and separation, shaped by the conflict between individuality and norm, between the desirable and the feasible. Art documents the will to wrest quality of life from the limitations of the built environment; and it explores the point at which the longing for idyllic peace breeds terror.

Painting and photography address, among other things, urban sprawl, the fragmentation of cities into outlying areas, the resulting isolation within the collective, and the privatization of public spaces. Art's critical perspective on architecture and living conditions, on habitats and circumstances, documents the ongoing efforts to create ever more beautiful living spaces in modern interiors and exteriors. The exhibition recounts the triumphs and failures of a mobile society in its attempts to settle down; it explores the structures with which residents seek to insulate themselves from the demands of the outside world and to realize their personal visions of "sweet home." Ultimately, however, the dwellings, as interpreted by the artists, reveal the homelessness inherent in the inhospitable conditions of individual aspirations for belonging.

"...and dwelling, on the whole, remains incomprehensible." (Botho Strauss)

with: Ingmar Alge, Daniel Behrendt, Heinrich Mauersberger, Mathias Weis, Guido Zimmermann, Jens Gerber, Christian Andreas Müller, Joanna Schulte, Dagmar Weiss