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

Join us for a reading by the artist EDA ASLAN, who reflects on the spread of Saharan dust as a metaphor for the circulation of minerals, but also of cultural artefacts and human destinies. This will be accompanied by a guided tour of the exhibition led by the curators LISA DEML and MARIE-SOPHIE DORSCH. Afterwards, we invite you to share your thoughts and impressions over coffee, tea 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).