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Promising New Talents
Promising New Talents
December 10, 2025
Nazanin Hafez: Behind the Wall, They Witness the Rise, 2025, from the project Spectators
© Nazanin Hafez
The grant recipients have used various approaches to engage with perspectives on our world that impact us as individuals and society at large. The featured works – which range from documentary-fictional representations to AI-generated imagery – shine a critical light on the political and social status quo of the present day.
In her collage project, Spectators, Nazanin Hafez (b. 1991) uses existing depictions of public execution sites in Iran to question the visual representation of politically charged locations. Kristina Lenz (b. 1992) and Alex Simon Klug (b. 1991) demonstrate the rapid development stages of AI diffusion models in their video installation, Your Choices Should Be Grounded in Reality. In ANT*HOLOGY: De / Bugging the Cultural History of Ants, Malte Uchtmann (b. 1996) examines how structures of knowledge and order influence social behaviour. Hannah Wolf (b. 1985) focuses on the German arms industry in her project, The Dialectic of this Work. Through detailed architectural perspectives, the artist emphasises the ‘normality of the abnormal’.
The exhibition continues at the Museum Folkwang in Essen until January 4, 2026.
Katrin UllmannIn her collage project, Spectators, Nazanin Hafez (b. 1991) uses existing depictions of public execution sites in Iran to question the visual representation of politically charged locations. Kristina Lenz (b. 1992) and Alex Simon Klug (b. 1991) demonstrate the rapid development stages of AI diffusion models in their video installation, Your Choices Should Be Grounded in Reality. In ANT*HOLOGY: De / Bugging the Cultural History of Ants, Malte Uchtmann (b. 1996) examines how structures of knowledge and order influence social behaviour. Hannah Wolf (b. 1985) focuses on the German arms industry in her project, The Dialectic of this Work. Through detailed architectural perspectives, the artist emphasises the ‘normality of the abnormal’.
The exhibition continues at the Museum Folkwang in Essen until January 4, 2026.
Nazanin Hafez: Behind the Wall, They Witness the Rise, 2025, from the project Spectators
© Nazanin Hafez
Malte Uchtmann: video still from ANT*HOLOGY: De/Bugging the Cultural History of Ants, 2025
© Malte Uchtmann
Kristina Lenz & Alex Simon Klug: video still from Read My Lips, part I of the project Your Choices Should Be Grounded in Reality, 2025
© Kristina Lenz & Alex Simon Klug