20 Jun 2025 – 19 Apr 2026
Copenhagen, Denmark
copenhagencontemporary.org
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Soft Robots gathers works by fifteen artists and collectives to explore how emerging technologies like AI and synthetic biology are reshaping our sense of self in a world defined by surveillance capitalism and digital doubles. In this shifting technological ecology, the exhibition looks beyond utopian promises and dystopian fears, asking what kind of future we are building alongside our machines. Many works were created specifically for the show, revealing how art can probe these questions with poetry and critical imagination.
Drawing on perspectives that challenge the Western divide between the natural and the artificial — including pan-Asian philosophies like Shintoism, which sees spirit in all things — the exhibition moves fluidly between avatars, doppelgängers, and seductive machines. Inspired in part by Hans Christian Andersen’s ‘The Nightingale,’ it reflects on what might be lost when the mechanical stands in for the soulful.
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