On the occasion of Various Others and Open Art 2023, artists Nicolás Lamas (with gallery Messeen De Clercq, Brussels) and Jeremy Shaw join max goelitz’s group exhibition, failed transcendence, together with Haroon Mirza, Helga Dóróthea Fannon and Niko Abramidis &NE. The central theme of the exhibition is author Tom McCarthy’s concept of failed transcendence. The group show focuses on the notion of failure and the questioning of traditional ideas of authenticity while exploring the limits and shortcomings of achieving higher states of consciousness across different time axes. The exploration of altered states in Shaw’s works, Lamas’s investigation of naturalness and artificiality, Mirza’s and Fannon’s merging of technology and spirituality, and Abramidis &NE’s blurring of the physical and virtual, create a rich and multidimensional dialogue revealing different layers of truth and reality.

Failed Transcendence is on view through October 21st at max goelitz, Maximilianstraße 35, Eingang, Herzog-Rudolf-Straße, 80539 Munich