‘Digital Unfolds the Myriad Forms – China-Europe Intermedia Art Touring Exhibition’ showcases how Chinese and European artists are working with digital media today: video works alongside AI-generated imagery, interactive installations alongside photography, and experimental image formats alongside AR and game-based works. What they have in common is their focus on technology, perception, memory and the question of how we will live together in the future. The exhibition is not intended as a static presentation, but as a journey that takes on a new form with every visit: visitors move between screens, sensors, sounds and data streams, becoming part of a situation that is continuously generated and transformed by the digital media themselves.
In Kassel, a city with one of the most influential traditions of contemporary art in Germany, the exhibition finds a venue that has been fostering experimentation, public engagement and transcultural exchange for decades. Artistic practices from China and Europe meet here directly within the space – not hung side by side, but interwoven – and open up a space that can be observed, traversed and questioned. This is not merely about new forms of media art, but an invitation to recalibrate the relationship between human and machine, body and image, local experience and global culture.
The project is an international collaboration between the Kassel Art Academy and the University of Kassel with the Hubei Institute of Fine Arts. The exhibition opens in the exhibition hall of the Kassel Art Academy and will then travel to two European partner venues: the mudaC | museo delle arti di Carrara in Italy and the École Supérieure d’Art d’Avignon in France. As a European tour of Chinese cross-media art, the project links Kassel, Carrara and Avignon into an ongoing network of artistic exchange – three cities, three art academies, one shared dialogue.
The exhibition was curated by Echo Can Luo and Joel Baumann.
Opening
14 August 2026, 6 pm
Exhibition Hall, Kunsthochschule Kassel
Menzelstraße 13
34121 Kassel
Duration and opening hours
15 August – 5 September 2026
Thursday to Sunday, 12 noon–6 pm
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Symposium Accompanying the Exhibition
August 16, 2026, 2:00 p.m.
Lecture Hall, Kunsthochschule Kassel
Kassel Museum Night 2026
September 5, 2026, 5:00 p.m. to 1:00 a.m.
Exhibition Hall, Kunsthochschule Kassel
Featuring presentations by:
Prof. Dr. Martin Schmidl, Rector of the Kunsthochschule Kassel, exhibition curators from Kassel, art historians, and some of the artists participating in the exhibition.
In keynote presentations, the speakers will introduce key themes of the exhibition and then discuss them with the audience. Afterward, a cozy get-together will provide an opportunity for informal conversation.