Loving MTRiarchyLoving MTRiarchy

Annual exhibition of the MA Transdisciplinary Studies in the Arts
12 to 26 June 2026, daily 12-8 pm  
Toni-Areal, room 7.F03

Spanning video installations, printed matter, performative interventions, spatial sculptures, sound works, running horses and collaborative publications, the exhibition does not curate disciplines, it rather dissolves their borders. It is a stage for encounters between methodologies that rarely share a wall, a stage, or a page.

Drawing on the double resonance of the title—the institutional acronym MTR (MA Transdisciplinarity) folded into the word matriarchy—the exhibition asks what it would mean to organize knowledge, space, and creative labor around principles of care, horizontality, and mutual sustenance rather than competition and hierarchy.

Both diploma and non-diploma projects are presented without rank or hierarchy, because here the threshold between “finished” and “in-process” is itself a site of inquiry—a methodological choice that mirrors the transdisciplinary conviction that knowledge is always partial, always becoming, always entangled with the bodies and communities that produce it. The works gathered do not illustrate a thesis but inhabit a question: how do we create together across differences—across media, disciplines, across unequal positions within institutions that were never designed for all of us?

Loving MTR  iarchy is, last and not least, a love letter composed by many hands and a playful Cheers to collaboration as a form of resistance, to the MTR programme as a growing and genuinely collective project, and to the stubborn, generative belief that the most rigorous thinking happens not alone, but in relation.

Programme flyer (PDF)

The following students and graduates of the Master’s programme in Transdisciplinary Studies in the Arts are taking part in the annual exhibition:

Noe Arnold
Jonas Balmer
Anya Bila
Felix Brinkmann
Katia Sophia Ditzler
Jul Dorsch
Alisha Dutt Islam
Anna Lena Eggenberg
Maxine Erni
Micol Favini
Heike Götze
Roni Idrizaj
Cindy Kosseda
Yaohan Meng
Martha Oelschläger
Ke Ren
Leila Saad
Andrea Sommer
Hiba Tahhan
Nina Tshomba