The exhibition leads us back to the foundations of human coexistence. It invites visitors to gather around questions of living, owning, and sharing, and to envision a just and sustainable future. For the first time, an exhibition will span the entire former parliament building of K21 and extend to the adjacent Ständehauspark, addressing the ground the museum stands on – both geographically and historically. Around thirty international artists and collectives will present various models of administrating resources – from indigenous ways of planning to co-ownership and utopian blockchain projects.

Coal, earth, lotus silk, pine needles, chocolate: the exhibition touches on elementals in both material and form. It takes us to Brazil, Korea, the Congo, Japan, the USA, China, Peru, Vietnam, Iraq, Sri Lanka, the Middle East and back to Germany.

It explores the newest fantasies of libertarian thinkers who seek to build their own states or occupy Mars. And it looks at the foundations of the industrial wealth of Düsseldorf: On its last day, a performance by Sybling (JP Raether & Sarah Friend) will lead to the nearby open-pit coal mine Garzweiler, a place of tensions between industry and preservation, capital gain and activism, that underpin this exhibition.