Sympoiesis: Strategies for Worlding-With
Haus Coburg | Städtische Galerie Delmenhorst•Nov 08, 2025 — Feb 01, 2026
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For several years now, the cultural scientist Donna Haraway has been using the term 'sympoiesis' to promote a paradigm shift in art and society: "Sympoiesis is a simple word; it means 'making-with'. Nothing makes itself; nothing is really autopoietic or self-organizing. [...] Sympoiesis is a word proper to complex, dynamic, responsive, situated, historical systems.' It is a word for worlding-with, in company." (Haraway, 2018)
Against this background, the exhibition at Haus Coburg attempts to view artworks no longer as the result of individual experiences and creations, but to focus on diverse exchange processes. Artworks bring many things together: technologies, instruments or materials, memories, archives, texts and narratives, people and places with stories and experiences. All of these elements contribute to the creation of meaning, a process in which viewers are involved.
Institutions play a central role in the collaborative creation of art. Even more than academies or exhibition…
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Sympoiesis: Strategies for Worlding-With
Haus Coburg | Städtische Galerie Delmenhorst•Nov 08, 2025 — Feb 01, 2026
Press Release
For several years now, the cultural scientist Donna Haraway has been using the term 'sympoiesis' to promote a paradigm shift in art and society: "Sympoiesis is a simple word; it means 'making-with'. Nothing makes itself; nothing is really autopoietic or self-organizing. [...] Sympoiesis is a word proper to complex, dynamic, responsive, situated, historical systems.' It is a word for worlding-with, in company." (Haraway, 2018)
Against this background, the exhibition at Haus Coburg attempts to view artworks no longer as the result of individual experiences and creations, but to focus on diverse exchange processes. Artworks bring many things together: technologies, instruments or materials, memories, archives, texts and narratives, people and places with stories and experiences. All of these elements contribute to the creation of meaning, a process in which viewers are involved.
Institutions play a central role in the collaborative creation of art. Even more than academies or exhibition…
Exhibition Space
Artists
Curator
Guestbook
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