KUNST MIT KUCHEN Yuko Mohri & Ei Arakawa-Nash - How we meet

In the organizer's words:

The new Art with Cake format is aimed at senior citizens who would like to get to know the museum and the exhibitions in a relaxed atmosphere. On the last Wednesday of every month, we offer this special art experience for which no prior knowledge is required. After a joint tour, there is time to enjoy a piece of cake together in our beautiful museum café and get into conversation.

Cost: 10 euros per person. Participation, a free drink and a piece of cake are included in the price. If you are interested, please register in advance by e-mail to kunstvermittlung@bochum.de or by telephone on 0234 910 42 30.

Group registration is not possible! Groups can book individual appointments for a guided tour with or without a workshop.

The starting point for this exhibition is the major Fluxus show How We Met (November 2025-February 2026), which presented the donation of Fluxus artworks by the late gallery owner Inge Baecker to the Kunstmuseum for the first time. The invited artists Yuko Mohri (*1980) and Ei Arakawa-Nash (*1977) were inspired by artworks from this collection. Both artists are influenced by experimental art movements such as Fluxus (Latin for "flowing"). From the 1960s onwards, Fluxus artists radically redefined art production across genres and with simple means. The focus was on ideas rather than individual genius.

For the exhibition How We Meet, Mohri and Arakawa-Nash have now created encounters of all kinds: between water and space, apple and electricity and their own ideas and those of the Fluxus artists they meet in the collection (such as Alison Knowles, Daniel Spoerri, Mauricio Kagel and Geoffrey Hendricks).

Yuko Mohri combines sound and readymades, arranging everyday objects such as umbrellas, paper rolls, light bulbs, food and other organic materials or fans into site-specific installations. Temperature, humidity, light or the movements of the audience in the room influence the choreography of her sculptures. Light bulbs go on and off, bells ring, hoses pump, forks swing rhythmically and randomly.

Ei Arakawa-Nash works performatively and incorporates everyday objects, works of art and people as equal actors in his art. Sound and poetry play a central role for Mohri and Arakawa-Nash. On display are existing and new productions by the artist, which focus on seemingly dry and sober systems such as currencies and the art market, one's own^{CO2 footprint} or the value of work.

At the 60th Venice Biennale (2024), Yuko Mohri represented the Japanese pavilion and showed her exhibition "Compose".Ei Arakawa-Nash is occupying the Japanese pavilion there this year.

Yuko Mohri and Ei Arakawa-Nash are meeting for the first time for How We Meet and have staged an exhibition in the form of a playful course in many conversations and along the lines of their concept Water Money Salad . The themes of water, money and salad sometimes metaphorically, sometimes literally connect the artworks of both artists with the artworks from the Fluxus collection.