In Transfer – A New Condition

Esch-sur-Alzette, the cross-border area in the south of Luxembourg, is in transformation: a former steel industry region will transform into a center for future-oriented knowledge and innovative creativity.

The Möllerei is starting point of our story and a monument of a world order in transition. This former steelwork is transforming itself into a place for culture and art. The surrounding industrial area right on the border of Luxemburg and France is becoming a new district, a place for people. It is about transformation and change. These are the attributes that Ars Electronica is highlighting in the exhibition “In Transfer – A New Condition”. It approaches these concepts and wants to explore what the nature of change is. What are the issues compelling us to change as a society and which ones are in urgent need of change? What are the mechanisms that drive change, why is it prevented, by what means can it be accomplished? And what role can art play in this?

In the exhibition “In Transfer – A New Condition” are presented artists operating in the space where art, technology and society intersect, artists who are always in the places where transformation is happening. In the exhibition, visitors will meet a generation of artists who, as citizens of this world, wish to contribute a perspective that can help us make farsighted decisions.