KERAMIKOS is a ceramics collection dedicated to celebrating local food and collaboration through the framework of a two year long ceramic tour. For KERAMIKOS Baden-Baden, artists Matthew Lutz-Kinoy and Natsuko Uchino will debut the first formal presentation of their handmade ceramic banquet set in the Kunsthalle Baden-Baden's studio space 45 cbm.The exhibition continues in the museum cafe: On April 6th at 6 PM a finissage titled

For her installation The Questions Library Claudia de la Torre (Born 1986 in Mexico City, lives and works in Karlsruhe, Germany) is transforming the exhibition space into a service facility: fully equipped with a table, chairs, a reading lamp and the bookshelves, that are inspired by the interior of a library. The books themselves were mostly gathered in an open call and have one thing in common: A look at their spine reveals that all titles

Sebastian Winkler (*1979) develops three-dimensional retrospective images in his installations and drawings. The tangible materiality or practical classifiability of this image triggers associations within the observer. In both his paper collages and his installations, made from firebrick, wire and textiles, a topography evolves which opens up a mentally accessible space. Here, fragments of memory are transformed into palpable forms and

In her work Selma Alaçam follows traces of her own German-Turkish biography, closely observing the psychological and social experiences that result from it. Thus, she has developed an analytic approach to understanding the delicate hues within cultural, social and religious poles. Her interest lies in fractures and the complex relationship between Islamic and Western cultural spheres. She works in video, photography

Claudia Chaseling (*1973 in Munich, lives and works in Berlin) will develop the expansive, pitoresque installation "It Goes Deeper" for her exhibition at 45cbm, the new studio space of the Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden. With this site-specific work, the artist addresses to the antagonist relationship between cosmos and chaos. While the first is commonly understood as orderly and decorative, the latter is linked with disorder and discomposure.

For our second exhibition at 45cbm, our new studio space, we invited Rachel Sussman (*1975, lives and works in New York) to present her project "The Oldest Living Things in the World." For the past six years, the artist has been travelling to remote and often isolated locales, most recently Antarctica, to take pictures of continuously living organisms that are 2,000 years old and older. Her work is part art and part science, underscored by a