Transmitting Wind

Telematic installation; real-time transmission of wind data and tracking of atmospheric dust movements from “remote landscapes”

2025/2026 Advancement Award Exhibitions

With the exhibitions by the 2025/26 grant recipients, the Arthur Boskamp-Stiftung presents two artist-researcher practices that engage in different ways with ecological, translocal and material contexts. Whilst the collaborative project Modularküche by Paula König, Liliana Escalhão and Johann König conceives of food as a medium of cultural translation and collective knowledge production, the artist Eda Aslan, in Transmitting Wind, examines air currents as carriers of political and material history. Both projects offer physical and discursive approaches to issues of ecology, memory and everyday culture.

Exhibition dates: 10 May – 4 July 2026
Opening: 9 May 2026, 2 pm

For the exhibition at M.1 Arthur Boskamp-Stiftung, Eda Aslan presents a new spatial installation that creates a translocal connection between a distant landscape and the exhibition space in Hohenlockstedt by transmitting the coordinates and meteorological data of a dust storm that frequently sweeps across Europe in real time. By collecting data on the specific locations of this atmospheric phenomenon, the installation uses data streams to control fans in the exhibition, transforming the storm's movement into a spatial flow. What is recorded elsewhere in the form of atmospheric movements appears here as a subtle physical presence – perceptible as a flow of air, pressure or a slight tingling sensation on the skin.

Accompanied by a textual work and research material, the installation introduces a quiet disturbance – an “invasive element” – into the exhibition space: an atmosphere that seems to arrive from elsewhere, bringing distant geographies into perceptual proximity and, with them, their sediments of memory.

This connection becomes a relationship – it does not remain abstract. It ties the exhibition space to a specific landscape and its political sediment. Between bodily sensation and macropolitical history, the work opens a field of situated materiality, where remembrance and toxicity, preservation and erasure become intertwined. Aslan makes it possible to experience how institutions not only conserve atmospheres, but also appropriate them – as “atmospheric annexation”, which inscribes the distant into the present of the space.

The work is part of Aslan's long-term research project ‘It was their dust that we breathed in’, which examines the ‘pathology of care’ within institutions and understands the toxicity in archives not only symbolically. Aslan traces the bureaucratic and chemical processes that objects of memory undergo between conservation, removal and destruction, which often also involve ideological decisions. Her works focus on the often-invisible toxic materials in these collections. Collection objects are frequently contaminated with toxic dusts such as mercury chloride. By focusing on dust, wind and climate as active agents – an often-overlooked material aspect of collections – she questions the supposedly neutral and sterile order of the institution: conservation and destruction turn out to be intertwined policies – as a way of dealing with matter, as access to atmospheres.

Eda Aslan (*1993 in Istanbul) is an artist based in Hamburg. She studied Fine Art at Marmara University in Istanbul, as well as at the University of Fine Arts in Hamburg in the Department of Time-Based Media. In her artistic practice, she explores the political, ecological and geographical traces embedded in circulating raw materials, moving between sculpture, text, sound and archival research. Most recently, she was awarded the Max Pechstein Prize (2025), the Karl Ditze Prize (2025) and the Working Grant for Fine Art from the Hamburg Ministry of Culture and Media (2026).

Advancement Awards

The Arthur Boskamp-Stiftung Advancement Awards are presented every two years and are aimed at artists with a connection to northern Germany. In addition to financial support and an exhibition at M.1, the winners are given the opportunity to use a guest apartment and a studio at M.1 in Hohenlockstedt for up to two months.

The call for entries for the 2025/26 awards was based on the curatorial programme Art as Ecological Practice by artistic director Ronald Kolb. It was aimed at artistic practices that work in a research-based and participatory manner at the intersection of art, science, ecology and sustainability.

The award was decided by a jury of experts, which this year comprised Liliana Gomez (Professor of Art and Society, University of Kassel), Alistair Hudson (Director of the Centre for Art and Media, Karlsruhe), Ulrike Boskamp (Director of the Arthur Boskamp-Stiftung) and Ronald Kolb (Artistic Director 2025/2026, Arthur Boskamp-Stiftung).

Exhibition dates: 10 May – 4 July 2026
Opening: 9 May 2026, 2 pm
Location: M.1, Arthur Boskamp-Stiftung, Breite Str. 18, 25551 Hohenlockstedt

Public dates with guided tours:
Sunday, 23 May 2026, 2 pm.
Saturday, 6 June 2026, 3 pm.

Closing event with guided tour and book launches:
4 July 2026, 3 pm., alongside the M.1 summer party

Regular opening hours during the exhibition dates:
Saturdays and Sundays, 2–6 pm
Guided tours are available by appointment: Ronald Kolb rk@arthurboskamp-stiftung.de

Events

2026
4. July	15 h	Closing event with guided tour and book launches
6. June	15 h	Guided Exhibition Tour
23. May	14 h	Öffentliche Führung durch die Ausstellung
10. May	14–18 h	Exhibition open
9. May	14 h	Exhibition Opening