Kunst oder KI: Wer ist der Künstler?

In the organizer's words:

Action weekend and exhibition with Lena Reifenhäuser and Sebastian Trella

What makes art? How can AI be used in the field of art? And who is the creator of the work? This question is the focus of a special weekend at the Deutsches Museum Bonn with artist Lena Reifenhäuser and robotics specialist Sebastian Trella.

Artificial intelligence is becoming increasingly important in almost every profession. In creative professions in particular, it is becoming apparent that it is only a matter of time before the use of AI tools becomes unavoidable. Where will the journey take us? Will AI soon make everyone an artist? And what does this mean for our understanding of art?

Artist Lena Reifenhäuser and robotics enthusiast Sebastian Trella will spend a weekend in a joint exhibition project at the Deutsches Museum Bonn showing how AI applications can be used in the field of art and what possibilities there are for this. They will illustrate how AI-generated art is created based on an artist's original work. What steps are necessary for this? And who is actually the artist at the end of the day, the creator of the work who has produced the creative achievement? Is this a new kind of artistic collaboration?

The exhibition raises questions such as these by presenting the artist's works in a surprising way, reinterpreting them using multimedia and thus developing them further at the same time - both with and without AI. Sebastian Trella's expertise in the field of robotics and AI brings drawings and paintings to life as video installations, for example, while an AI freely expands existing works by the artist.
Always present at the center: Lena Reifenhäuser's sculpture MANUEL(L), created especially for the event with a 3D printing pen, stimulates discussion as a manually produced juxtaposition to AI art.

As the highlight of the exhibition, a completely new work created by an AI trained exclusively with artistic works by Lena Reifenhäuser will be unveiled and can be seen for the first time at the Deutsches Museum Bonn this weekend.

Last but not least, museum visitors will be able to express their own creativity at interactive stations: A 3D printing pen station, for example, offers young and old the opportunity to create their own sculptures. A robot in artistic action can also be experienced live on both days.

Price information:

Participation is included in the museum admission fee.