The new HfG Professor of Relational Design, Valentina Karga, is currently presenting her solo exhibition Well Beings at the Kunstmuseum Bochum. In it, the interdisciplinary artist and architect creates an atmospheric space dedicated to the emotional dimensions of the climate crisis. Between collective concern, sadness, hope and resistance, the exhibition invites us to reflect on our involvement in ecological contexts - beyond classic solution narratives.

The exhibition will be accompanied by a public program on 24 May 2025, consisting of a workshop and a discussion format that focuses on decolonial perspectives on the climate crisis. Together with political visual artist Sara Bahadori, Valentina Karga is designing a multi-layered program that combines emotional experience, a change of perspective and collective exchange.

Saturday, May 24, 2025 - Kunstmuseum Bochum

🌀 Workshop (14:30-17:30)
Only with registration, participation free of charge

Introduction to the exhibition by Valentina Karga

LARP exercise (Live Action Role Play) to reflect on climate feelings

Storytelling workshop by Sara Bahadori with a focus on colonial continuities in the climate crisis

Joint reflection and final round

🍲 Break (17:30-18:00)
With warm, regional-seasonal soup from Pippo's home kitchen

🌍 Public exchange (from 18:00)
Open discussion about climate anxiety, anger, grief, resilience and scope for action
Also open to all interested parties without participation in the workshop

📩 Registration for the workshop:
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Places are limited.

Well Beings is an experimental space for thought and experience that invites us to talk about personal and collective experiences of the climate crisis. Karga interweaves artistic practice with social methods and creates connections between sensation, knowledge and political action.

Valentina Karga (*1986, Greece) is an artist, architect and Professor of Relational Design at the HfG Karlsruhe. Her work moves between art, design, architecture and research. In her practice, she examines socio-political issues relating to sustainability, energy and alternative infrastructures - often using participatory, low-threshold formats. Her work has been shown internationally, including at the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens and at transmediale Berlin.