In the exhibition Ask Me if I Believe in the Future, several installations and artifacts are based on ideas that may affect how mankind develops in the future.

Ask Me if I Believe in the Future is a conceptual exhibition at MK&G Hamburg that is masterfully organized by Maria Cristina Didero and created by Okolo. It includes several cutting-edge installations and objects centered on subjects that potentially influence humankind’s future.

“A project on optimism, it offers a single response to the query: Do you have faith in the future?

We could not help but ponder about the future of the next few generations in these unprecedented times of the COVID-19 pandemic and light of the ongoing turmoil in Ukraine, says Maria Cristina Didero.

It consists of the delightfully amazing work of Objects of Common Interest, Erez Nevi Pana, Zaven, and Carolien Niebling. They are expertly showing their expectations and visions for the future.

The one-of-a-kind installation “Teahouses for domesticity” by Objects of Common Interest is on an existential realization that the epidemic has brought into stark relief: our need for connection and closeness as individuals.

A display that spreads a seed of optimism for the future

Ask Me if I believe in the Future exhibition

The designers enable viewers to engage with a fascinating sensory landscape by walking through three inflated, large PVC tubes. As they do so, each viewer has a unique experience of time, space, presence, and absence.

Erez Nevi Pana, on the other hand, paints a futuristic scene in “Homecoming” in which people, animals. And the environment coexist together on a planet to conserve and protect.

Pana, who took his cue from astronaut Neil Armstrong, invites viewers to view the Earth from above. His eclectic composition includes a pool of water that serves as a metaphor for a life force and a launch pad for make-believe spacecraft. And a flag that eloquently conveys the idea of the living Earth as a cohesive whole.

By focusing on the idea of collaboration, especially with local experts, Zaven finds even more hope for the future.