Taking Lüneburg’s natural resources as its starting point, the exhibition UNDER/CURRENTS traces how raw materials circulate across historical periods and geographical boundaries, how they infiltrate ecological and bodily systems, and how social and economic power relations crystallise around them—in which we are all inevitably implicated.

Sahara wind carries essential minerals over vast distances that also nourish European ecosystems. For the artist EDA ASLAN, it is also a metaphor for migration. In a reading, she reflects on the circulation of Saharan dust in relation to the movements of cultural artefacts and human lives. Alongside this, curators LISA DEML and MARIE-SOPHIE DORSCH will give a guided tour of the exhibition and invite everyone to join in conversation over coffee and cake.

The exhibition UNDER/CURRENTS brings together works by EDA ASLAN, GOSIA LEHMANN & VALERIAN BLOS.


KUNST & KUCHEN is made possible with the kind support of the Lüneburger Bürgerstiftung.

The annual programme at Halle für Kunst Lüneburg e.V. is funded by the Ministry for Science and Culture of Lower Saxony, Lüneburgischer Landschaftsverband, and Hansestadt Lüneburg.

EDA ASLAN lives and works in Hamburg. Through sculpture, text, sound and research, her artistic practice explores how matter moves from geological formations to bureaucratic archives, thus transmitting, concealing and negotiating historical narratives. She has received numerous awards for her work, most recently the Max Pechstein Prize (2025) and the Karl H. Ditze Prize (2025). Her works have been shown internationally in various institutions and exhibitions, including at Kunstverein in Hamburg (Germany, 2024); the Jewish Museum of Franconia (Fürth, Germany, 2022); DEPO (Istanbul, Turkey, 2021); and Kunsthaus Hamburg (Germany, 2020).