TRANSFORMA(C)TIONS: MATTER DIALOGUES
Schedule
Fri, 20 Feb, 2026 at 05:30 pm
UTC+01:00Location
Museum Reich der Kristalle, Mineralogische Staatssammlung Bayern | Munich, BY
Advertisement
20.02.26-20.04.2026Tue-Fri 12:00-16:00, Sat-Sun 13:00-17:00.
Special opening during Inhorgenta 20.02, 17:30-20:00.
Special opening during Munich Jewellery Week 06.03, 17:30-20:00.
Minerals are not inert but vital and articulate. Shaped over time by elemental forces, they embody transformation. This exhibition approaches matter not merely as geological phenomena but as vibrant agents that provoke, inspire, and direct creative actions. Between light and dark, solid and liquid, stable and unstable, matter operates as a mediator, forms through which meaning and metaphysical metamorphoses unfold. We speak of the rhythms of transforma(c)tions.
The exhibition unfolds across four zones on the Mineral Museum’s ground floor, pairing mineral specimens with contemporary jewellery and metalwork objects that respond, resonate, or interrupt. Visitors are invited into a multisensory dialogue between matter formations and their contemporary artistic (re)interpretations.
ZONE OPTICS explores how matter interacts with light through fluorescence and phosphorescence. The work of British Academy of Jewellery students with BREVALOR crystals embodies the sculpting with light.
ZONE METALLURGICS conceives metal language as meta-language, structuring tension through rhythm and form. Yitong Zhang’s work invites sensory-emotional encounters beyond representation.
ZONE PHYSICS celebrates crystal growth as literal transformation. Sofie Boons co-creates with nature, growing crystals in metal structures to embody matter in motion and aesthetics in emergence.
ZONE ENERGETICS various invited artists investigate crystals as active agents in technology, reinterpreting their energetic potentials beyond utility to reveal new narratives of resonance and transformation.
Curators: Sofie Boons, Yitong Zhang
Facilitators: Stephen Bottomley and Melanie Kaliwoda
Participating Artists: Sofie Boons, Yitong Zhang, Stephen Bottomley, Lin Cheung, Katharina Dettar, Adi Toch, Grace Wilson, Marina Ito, Lili Barglowska, Nicholas Yiannarakis, Syd Kendall, Anastasia Kan, Emily Murphy, Lily Straker, Naima Cheniya, Natalie Asher-Martin, Rebecca Prenga, Rozana Piper, Veroni Dimitrov, Veronika Dika
Advertisement
Where is it happening?
Museum Reich der Kristalle, Mineralogische Staatssammlung Bayern, Theresienstraße 41, 80333 München, Deutschland, Munich, GermanyEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
Know what’s Happening Next — before everyone else does.
