Art, time, performance, space, and hybridity.
Art, sience, time, performance, space, and hybridity are crucial elements in the realm of contemporary art. Artists often draw inspiration from various sources, appropriating existing concepts, images, or objects and transforming them into something new and thought-provoking. Time plays a significant role as artists explore the temporal aspect of their work, whether it be through the use of time-based mediums, such as video or performance art, or by capturing a specific moment in history. Performance art allows artists to engage with their audience in a unique way, blurring the boundaries between performer and viewer. The concept of space is also explored, as artists consider the physical and conceptual dimensions of the environments in which their work is presented. Lastly, hybridity emerges as artists combine different artistic disciplines, cultural influences, or mediums to create innovative and diverse artworks. These elements intertwine and shape the dynamic and ever-evolving landscape of contemporary art.
Pi (π) Art Project is an amorphous site-specific project in Frankfurt, Germany. It will showcase exhibitions at the intersection of art, science, architecture, and performance once a year. We are interested in developing noncommercial projects that address contemporary issues.
A YEAR WITHOUT SUMMER
Pi - π
and
Galerie Heike Strelow
Presents:
A Year Without a Summer – Art, Climate, and the Atmosphere
You're Invited!
A Year Without a Summer
An exhibition and book project by
Studio Mathias Kessler and Ahmet Civilek
( above Galerie Heike Strelow)
with Galerie Heike Strelow
and Pi - π Projects
📍 Frankfurt | 📘 Published by DISTANZ
Dates:
Opening: Friday, September 5, 2025, 6:00 PM
and as part of the Season Opening Weekend:
Saturday, September 6, 2025, 11:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Sunday, September 7, 2025, 11:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Exhibition Duration:
September 5 – October 18, 2025
Dear Friends,
We are delighted to invite you to an exhibition and a series of events surrounding the new book
A Year Without a Summer by Mathias Kessler, distributed by DISTANZ Verlag.
Together with Galerie Heike Strelow (Frankfurt) and Pi – π Projects (Frankfurt).
The exhibition brings together minimal gradient paintings reflecting the changing colors of the sky and the presence of fine dust, alongside images of illegally exported European plastic waste dumped in Adana, Turkey. At its center is a monumental carpet woven from plastic – a possible solution to remove waste from the cycle of production and disposal.
Skies shaped by pollution, plastic waste transformed into art — Kessler turns today’s ecological realities into powerful images.
Location is above: Galerie Heike Strelow, Frankfurt
📘 A Year Without a Summer is available now:
👉 DISTANZ Verlag
🌐 More info & images:
👉 www.mathiaskessler.com, https://www.pi-314159.org
We look forward to seeing you there!
Warm regards,
Mathias Kessler, Galerie Heike Strelow & Pi Art Projects
Warm regards,
Mathias Kessler, Galerie Heike Strelow & Pi - π Projects
Bio Mathias Kessler:
Mathias Kessler, is a New York-based artist who critiques and reimagines the concept of nature. Quoting from art history, philosophy and eco-political debates, Kessler re-stages representations of natural processes. Romantic painting, land art and digital renderings compete and collide in order to unhinge familiar oppositions such as nature and culture, representation and experience, and ideology and aesthetics. Kessler’s contribution to current utopian and dystopian debates is at once intelligent, grave, comic and visually stunning.
16.5.2025 - 31.8.2025
Images:
Project 2025
DAVOS ORGONE DEVICE
Pi - π
and
The Center For Planetary Self Defense
Presents:
DAVOS ORGONE DEVICE
The exhibition coming up on the 6th of September 2024 at Pi - π documents how the Center For Planetary Self Defense (artist duo Mathias Kessler and Jakob S. Boeskov) traveled to the Jakobshorn in January 2024 to install an art homage to Austrian psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich in the mountains above the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
To create the project, the artist transported all art materials by ski. The artists created the project from a base in a mountain hut at an altitude of 1800 meters, accessible only by ski lift. Visitors to the exhibition will see artifacts from the art expedition, as well as video, photographic, and detailed drawings chronicling the expedition and documentation. We're excited to show a humorous and novel project that celebrates the power of new thinking.
Visitors to the exhibition will see drawings, expedition outfits, photos, and the Orgon Device sculpture, which the artists installed in the snow-covered mountains during the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. The show will also feature a short video documenting the performance.
Wilhelm Reich, author of “The Mass Psychology of Fascism,” was an Austrian psychoanalyst, inventor, and author of several books, including The Mass Psychology of Fascism. He escaped Austria in 1939 and later lived in Denmark, Norway, and finally Maine, USA. He died in jail in the USA in 1957.
Dates: 6.9.2024 – 5.10.2024
Location: Lange Str. 31/1st Floor, 60311 Frankfurt am Main
Bio Jakob Boeskov:
Jakob S. Boeskov, is an artist based in New York City. His diverse practice spans drawings, 3D printing, text, music, paintings, sculptures, and videos. Boeskov's work has been shown at the New Museum, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Stedelijk Museum, and the Danish National Gallery.
Bio Mathias Kessler:
Mathias Kessler, is a New York-based artist who critiques and reimagines the concept of nature. Quoting from art history, philosophy and eco-political debates, Kessler re-stages representations of natural processes. Romantic painting, land art and digital renderings compete and collide in order to unhinge familiar oppositions such as nature and culture, representation and experience, and ideology and aesthetics. Kessler’s contribution to current utopian and dystopian debates is at once intelligent, grave, comic and visually stunning.
6.9.2024 - 10.10.2024
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Project 2024
Raphael Lyon, Black Hole
฿l^¢к βθж - ฿l^¢к Ħσl£ ist eine Installation mit neuen Skulpturen von Raphael Lyon. Mit dieser Ausstellung erforscht Lyon die kryptischen Parallelen zwischen generativer künstlicher Intelligenz und der Entstehung von Leben aus Nichtleben. Durch den Einsatz von elektrochemischer Abscheidung, intensiver Hitze, kontrollierter Elektrizität und anderen wissenschaftlichen Methoden hat Lyon eine ortsspezifische Installation geschaffen, die eine Vielzahl von halborganischen Kompositionen, rekombinanten Skulpturen und sich entwickelnden Wandteppichen beherbergt.
Das dunkle Innere der Ausstellung, die minimale Beleuchtung und die labyrinthischen Qualitäten spielen auf die paläolithische Höhlenkunst an und stellen das Kunst schaffen und die Poesie im Allgemeinen in ein Kontinuum mit geologischem Druck. Seine verfremdenden Aspekte erinnern uns an unsere gemeinsamen, entstehenden und unleserlichen Ursprünge.
Durch die Betonung von Kräften statt von Absichten und die Gegenüberstellung des Belebten mit dem Unbelebten schafft Lyon einen Raum, in dem die Rolle der Kunst und des technologischen Fortschritts als gemeinsame Facetten dauerhafter natürlicher Prozesse betrachtet werden können: resistent gegen traditionelle Methoden der verkenntnistheoretischen Untersuchung, von Natur aus komplex, numinos, fantastisch und okkult.
17.11.2023 - 1.30.2024
Project 2023
Images from exhibition
฿l^¢к βθж - ฿l^¢к Ħσl£
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