Vinzenz Aubry | Nach Bild (After Image)
Galerie im Saalbau, Berlin
July 11 – September 6, 2026
Nach Bild is a call to action. Nach Bild is a manifesto. Nach Bild asks about the aftermath—a world in which images have abandoned us.
Nach Bild, artist Vinzenz Aubry’s (SMACT ’25) first solo exhibition, explores our image-dominated society, in which the visual has created a distance from the world that separates us more than it connects. In participatory spaces of experience, the audience is invited to themselves become simultaneously camera and screen, to stage the times “After the Image.”
Two of the projects displayed were developed during Aubry’s time at ACT: Looking at the Sun and Vibrations for Androids.
Looking at the Sun, an experimental film inspired by the experience of a total solar eclipse, explores sensory overload and seeing without light—while simultaneously fulfilling the longing to gaze directly into a star.
Vibrations for Androids II unfolds in the subsonic range: an artificial Earth whose orchestra joins the low-frequency languages of rivers, whales, and rockets.
On robot-controlled loungers, The Message Is the Massage reflects on touch and geometric cognition as universal characteristics of the human brain—and shares its secret messages about the black sun and the yellow square.
Vinzenz Aubry questions our image-driven society, in which the visual has created a distance from the world that separates us more than it connects us. Aubry explores and invites us to look beyond the image and our visually-dominated perception. The exhibition stages the times “after the image”–times in which the interpretive authority of images collapses and the work and the viewer form an interwoven system.
The first solo exhibition opens up participatory spaces of experience in which the audience itself is simultaneously camera and screen. The works lead to the thresholds of perception and are to be understood as an invitation into spaces in which the aesthetic experience only arises through the interaction of work and audience.
The expansive interactive installations emit infrasound frequencies, causing our bodies to vibrate and our retinas to flash. Aubry playfully challenges our role as visitors: in order to experience the works, we must offer ourselves as a projection surface. After Image, Under Stimulation consists of “open works;” that find fleeting completion when visitors become part of them.
Curatorial assistants: Johanna Engemann and Tatjana Rotfuß
