Alysha Lahner. beneath the guise – a diagrammatology
MUR BRUT 36
12.9. – 30.11.2025

September 12 – November 30, 2025
Opening: September 11, 2025, 6 pm

Alysha Lahner’s installation combines technical systems with psychogeographical spaces, revealing hidden emotional layers. The starting point is the Kunsthalle’s underground car park – an economised transit space that appears prosaic as a parking place for vehicles, but can also be experienced as a labyrinthine, anonymous and threatening space of fear. In its rationality, the architecture embodies notions of clarity and control, while in experience, uncertainty, threat and vulnerability become palpable – especially for people perceived as female.

Lahner translates this ambivalence into a visual structure that intertwines floor plans, circuit diagrams and a real electronic circuit. A complex graphic is created on plexiglass, in which terms, definitions and text excerpts about perception and trauma are combined with schematic elements and a circuit structure consisting of sensors and LEDs.

Light plays a central role here: spotlights trigger sensors that activate LEDs, allowing reflection to be experienced as a dual principle – as a thought process and as a physical phenomenon that restructures the space. The work eludes the clarity promised by maps and creates breaks, fragmentations and the feeling of getting lost in a dense structure. Signal lights mark moments of orientation without providing certainty and reveal how closely spaces, bodies and collective experience are intertwined.

Invited by Fiona Pauline Borowski

Alysha Lahner graduated from the Düsseldorf Art Academy in 2024 under Franka Hörnschemeyer and John Morgan.