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Industry Days

Wednesday, October 29, 2025

  • 10:00 AM
    7:00 PM
    Exhibition Marktplatz
    approved for all audiences

    The travelling exhibition Bakteriopolis invites visitors of all ages to discover the fascinating world of microbes. A redesigned overseas container offers interactive experiences that emphasise the omnipresence and versatility of bacteria. 

  • 10:00 AM
    9:00 PM
    Exhibition Science Year Marktplatz
    Loop
    Exhibition Science Year Marktplatz
    Olivier GIROUARD, Jonathan VILLENEUVE approved for all audiences Canada

    Marktplatz in Halle will shimmer with the mechanical poetry of Loop’s 6 giant zoetropes.

  • 10:00 AM
    7:00 PM
    Exhibition Science Year Marktplatz
    Power2Change: Mission Energiewende
    Exhibition Science Year Marktplatz
    approved for all audiences Germany

    Experience the energy transition for yourself: get involved, try it out and discuss!

  • 3:00 PM
    8:00 PM
    Exhibition Kaufhaus
    Ancestral Secret VR
    Exhibition Kaufhaus
    Francisca SILVA, María JOSÉ DÍAZ forbidden under 12 Chile

    Ancestral Secret is a VR journey that transits between the physical reality to Qero's sacred dimension, revealing a deep connection with nature.

  • 3:00 PM
    8:00 PM
    Exhibition Science Year Kaufhaus
    Der Energiewende Explorer
    Exhibition Science Year Kaufhaus
    approved for all audiences Germany

    Experience the future of energy for yourself!

  • 3:00 PM
    8:00 PM
    Exhibition Kaufhaus
    Duchampiana
    Exhibition Kaufhaus
    Lilian HESS forbidden under 12 Germany

    “Duchampiana” is an artistic VR installation focused on the theme of body politics. Departing from one of art history’s most notorious paintings - Duchamp’s “Nude Descending A Staircase No 2” - this immersive installation invites its audience to engage in a physical transgression of social constructs.

  • 3:00 PM
    8:00 PM
    Exhibition Science Year Kaufhaus
    ENERGĒIA
    Exhibition Science Year Kaufhaus
    Ugo ARSAC approved for all audiences France

    ENERGĒIA is an immersive documentary experience where you can take a stroll without beginning or end. Freed from gravity, the visitor is invited to explore ghostly buildings, built from 3D scans within French nuclear power plants.

  • 3:00 PM
    8:00 PM
    Exhibition Science Year Kaufhaus
    Flow
    Exhibition Science Year Kaufhaus
    Adriaan LOKMAN approved for all audiences France

    Flow VR invites you to surrender to the whims of the wind on a seemingly ordinary day, concealing within its turbulence a captivating night in the life of a woman, portrayed through the dance of air currents.

  • 3:00 PM
    8:00 PM
    Exhibition Kaufhaus
    Hotspot
    Exhibition Kaufhaus
    Marlot MEYER Netherlands

    Hotspot is a shared ritualistic experience of non-verbal communication and exchange between human bodies, and a responsive environment. 

  • 3:00 PM
    8:00 PM
    Exhibition Kaufhaus
    Future Botanica
    Exhibition Kaufhaus
    POLYMORF, STUDIO BIARRITZ approved for all audiences Netherlands

    Future Botanica is an interactive project that encourages you to think about future nature. Using an app on your phone, you can create new plants, creatures and ecologies based on different future scenarios, together with other people and an AI.

  • 3:00 PM
    8:00 PM
    Exhibition Kaufhaus
    Oto’s Planet
    Exhibition Kaufhaus
    Gwenael FRANÇOIS Luxembourg

    Oto´s Planet follows the peaceful life of Oto, who loves nothing more than lounging in his hammock and enjoying the fruits of the single tree on his tiny planet. His tranquility is shattered when Exo, a hyperactive and cumbersome cosmonaut, crash-lands in a small spacecraft.

  • 3:00 PM
    8:00 PM
    Exhibition Kaufhaus
    Revierdebattenbox
    Exhibition Kaufhaus
    approved for all audiences Germany

    The Revierdebattenbox sparks conversation about the future, science and structural change. With thought-provoking questions and rules that encourage compromise, it facilitates open dialogue on equal terms.

  • 3:00 PM
    8:00 PM
    Exhibition Science Year Kaufhaus
    She's so Centsible!
    Exhibition Science Year Kaufhaus
    Passion ASASU approved for all audiences Germany

    Insert coins. Take control. Her body is labour, light, and exhaustion. She’s So Centsible! is a durational performance powered by the audience—insert coins into the acceptor to match the hourly minimum wage (€12.41), and the performer runs until the money is depleted.

  • 3:00 PM
    8:00 PM
    Exhibition Science Year Kaufhaus
    Solar Protocol
    Exhibition Science Year Kaufhaus
    Tega BRAIN, Alex NATHANSON approved for all audiences Australia

    A naturally intelligent network managed by the sun.

  • 3:00 PM
    8:00 PM
    Exhibition Kaufhaus
    The Garden Says...
    Exhibition Kaufhaus
    Uri KRANOT, Michelle KRANOT approved for all audiences Denmark

    An immersive VR and live performance experience where human, nature, and technology meet in a dreamlike garden of shifting encounters.

  • 3:00 PM
    8:00 PM
    Exhibition Kaufhaus
    Utopikum
    Exhibition Kaufhaus
    approved for all audiences Germany

    Future Technicians wanted! 
    Step into the Utopikum and explore possible and impossible, thinkable and unthinkable futures. In this retro-futuristic lab you become a future technician yourself, tinkering with objects of the past to design visions of tomorrow. 

  • 4:30 PM
    5:10 PM
    Exhibition Science Year Kaufhaus
    She's so Centsible!
    Exhibition Science Year Kaufhaus
    Passion ASASU approved for all audiences Germany Panel discussion with guests
    Live Performance

    Insert coins. Take control. Her body is labour, light, and exhaustion. She’s So Centsible! is a durational performance powered by the audience—insert coins into the acceptor to match the hourly minimum wage (€12.41), and the performer runs until the money is depleted.