Vernissage »Venuswald«

The program of the vernissage on June 27, 2026 presented Stefanie Müller's documentary on the 2024 World Peace Conference, followed by a discussion with the organizers; art and performance by Lavanya Honeyseeda as the extraterrestrial peace ambassador Lakhura; and new works by Tim Ra. Sasperella la Sirène pervaded the Forest of Venus with ethereal soundscapes.

The peace that Immanuel Kant envisioned in 1795 in his essay Perpetual Peace does not spring from virtue, but from the rational self-interest of nations in a rules-based order. Even "a people of devils" could achieve it. A foreshadowing of the United Nations.

The capacity for violence and humiliation is part of who we are—just as much as the capacity for empathy and cooperation. Peace, according to peace researcher Johan Galtung, is a practice of rapprochement—and of civil resistance where injustice prevails. And it begins with the willingness to confront one's own pain.

Stefanie Müller's documentary about the World Peace Conference initiated by Saskia Baumgart and Dominikus Vogl, which brought together people from all over the world in 2024, portrays peace as a lived encounter — with other people and with one's own shadows.