A group exhibition of DAAD artists

The exhibition explores the experience of wandering through an unfamiliar city — both physically and through the endless scroll of digital images. Fragments of urban life appear and disappear: brightly coloured shopfronts, deserted storefronts, improvised sports fields, discount markets, fading advertisements, squeaking display windows, broken facades and decorative excesses that seem both charming and unsettling.

The works trace a gaze that moves without destination, collecting impressions rather than narratives. In this process, the city unfolds as a collage of attractions and leftovers, promises and disappointments, moments of intimacy and estrangement. Digital browsing and urban exploration begin to mirror one another: both are shaped by curiosity, distraction and the constant encounter with the unknown.

»Visions of Strangers« is interested in the overlooked and the transient — in places that appear accidental, temporary or out of time. What emerges is a portrait of the contemporary city as a landscape of visual abundance, where familiarity and foreignness exist side by side and every corner seems to offer the possibility of a new discovery.