Notes on Becoming

What traces do artworks leave of their own making? What experiences, memories, movements, and decisions shape them?

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The creative process often remains hidden from the public – sketches vanish in the studio, decisions are lost to time, the marks of making are smoothed away.

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​Notes on Becoming gathers works in which the process of becoming remains visible: processes leave traces – transformation, time, and chance become part of the artistic expression. Some works turn the act itself into the artwork – writing, assembling, repeating – while others explore how personal stories, movements, or memories inscribe themselves into the medium.

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The exhibition unites positions in sculpture, painting, drawing, photography, and collage, deliberately playing with the boundaries of these media. In their diversity, the works share a common interest: making development, decision, and change visible.

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Three thematic fields offer possible approaches to this wide spectrum of process-oriented practices:

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Process as Concept gathers works that address or document the creative process itself, in which temporality, performance, or participation play a role.

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Process as Materiality presents works based on transformation, decay, or chance – the artistic intervention oscillates between control and the loss of it.

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Process as Narration directs attention to documentary, archival, or autobiographical approaches in which becoming itself becomes the subject.

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This division is not intended as a rigid order. Many works move between categories, overlap approaches, or resist clear classification. The exhibition is not an attempt at systematisation but an invitation to look: a view into the becoming of the works, their conditions, traces, and structures.

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Notes on Becoming invites us to shift our gaze from the finished object to what precedes it – the thinking, shaping, doubting, discarding, and beginning.

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Participating artists from the collection:
Natacha Donzé, Katharina Grosse, Lena Henke, Gregor Hildebrandt, Jürgen Krause, Alicja Kwade, Paloma Proudfoot, David Reed, Karin Sander, Danh Vo, Anna Vogel, Thomas Wachholz, Grace Weaver, Heimo Zobernig