STWST’s Schlafschiff I-III at MARS PATENT – Catapult

MARS PATENT – Catapult
Collaborative Net Art, installation, text- and voice objects, drawings, video since 1999
MOM Art Space Hamburg, 9th-11th of January 2026

The cyberfeminist project MARS PATENT was and still is the first interplanetary exhibition space, which, at the turn of the millennium, linked the trends towards the colonisation of space with the media hype surrounding the (early) internet: Space! Cyberspace! The solution! (for everything)?– DEEP, DEEPER, hypnomedia: And now? What to do when the once-ridiculed lies of progress are now rapidly overtaking themselves in nightmarish reality?
With this question in mind, the exhibition takes a new, probing look at the participatory net art project by Claudia Reiche and Helene von Oldenburg (Hamburg, artists, curators).

It is recapitulated and catapulted onto the surface of Mars like the deceptive displays. Tanja Brandmayr's exhibited and performed sleeping ship undertakes a “rebellion of the imagination”, as do the Letters of Jutta K. The two literary-oriented works venture into the border area of the communicable and thus perhaps deeper into the world space (of language) than any spaceship into space…

MARS PATENT

with
Tanja Brandmayr
Jutta K.
Helene von Oldenburg
Claudia Reiche
and 56 others

Opening: January 8th 2026, 18:00
Open: January 9th-11th 2026, 16:00-19:00
MOM Art Space (in the Gängeviertel_Fabrique, Valentinskamp 34A , 20355 Hamburg) www.momartspace.com

With a performance by Tanja Brandmayr (Linz, Stadtwerkstatt, artist, curator), SCHLAFSCHIFF I-III, Aufstand der Imagination

and exhibition of the letters of Jutta K.: (Berlin, sex worker, cinema runner, outsider artist)
THE LETTERS OF JUTTA K. (compiled by Anna Pein)