Exhibition
“AI and its Consequences – Artistic Positions on Post-Digital Futures”
Artists: Die Aschenbrecher | Begi Guggenheim | Olivier Hölzl | The Meaningful Noise Collective | Lukas Lex | Daniel Mazanik | Anna Pelz | Sebastian Pfeifhofer | Sebastian Pirch | Bettina Schülke | Annette Tesarek | Norbert Unfug | Ana Vollwesen | Moritz Wildburger | The Future Foundation
Researchers: The Future Foundation – an initiative of researchers and experts from 11 universities and 13 disciplines; initiated by the Institute for Information Systems and Society and Vienna University of Economics and Business
https://www.thefuturefoundation.eu/en Univ.-Prof. Dr. Jörg Menche, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Network Medicine at the University of Vienna https://netmed.lbg.ac.at/
Curator: Andreas Schlichtner
Poster: courtesy of Ana Vollwesen & Andreas Schlichtner & Die Aschenbrecher
Instagram: Die Aschenbrecher @dieaschenbrecher | Begi Guggenheim @begiguggenheim | Olivier Hölzl @olivierhoelzl @livil.at | The Meaningful Noise Collective @meaningfulnoise | Lukas Lex @lukas_lex_ | Daniel Mazanik @theengineguy | Anna Pelz @farbmilieu | Sebastian Pfeifhofer @tiansebasys | Sebastian Pirch #sebastianpirch | Bettina Schülke @bettina.schuelke | Annette Tesarek @tesarekannette | Norbert Unfug @norbert.unfug | Ana Vollwesen @vollwesen | Moritz Wildburger #moritzwildburger | The Future Foundation #thefuturefoundation | Andreas Schlichtner @art_collection_schlichtner 
Organisation: Austrian Cultural Forum in Warsaw


Since the end of 2022, the rapid rise of generative AI systems has increasingly shaped artistic, social, and political debates. Within just a few years, enormous investments have been made in data centers, new infrastructures have emerged, and global power constellations have shifted. At the same time, questions of energy consumption, regulation, digital ethics, and democratic oversight have moved to the forefront.

Examples such as the virtual AI minister “Diella” in Albania or the admission of the non-binary AI “Flynn” as a student at the University of Applied Arts Vienna demonstrate how deeply AI is already embedded in social, institutional, and symbolic orders. Key concepts such as deep fakes, neural networks, or AI agents are omnipresent, yet remain opaque and difficult to grasp for many.

The exhibition approaches these developments from an artistic perspective. In a critical, post-autonomous approach, art positions itself as a framework, a reflective surface, a playground, and an early warning system. The exhibition asks whether discussions about AI can extend beyond questions of artistic autonomy and whether societal transformation processes must be negotiated collectively with other actors.

Central themes include humans and machines, bodies and data, the public sphere and authorship, history and entanglements, as well as the ambivalence between fascination, ideology, and power. AI appears not only as a tool, but as a cultural infrastructure: it reproduces norms and biases, shapes narratives and visions of the future, sets aesthetic standards, and exerts both political and material influence.

A dedicated section of the exhibition is devoted to questions of digital ethics. Lectures, presentations, and discussions accompany and deepen the artistic positions.


26.02.-09.04.2026
Openning:26.02.2026, 19:00
Austrian Cultural Forum in Warsaw
Ul. Próżna 7/9, Warsaw
Free entry!