Yuko Mohri & Ei Arakawa-Nash – How We Meet: Tour at Kunstmuseum Bochum
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A walkable art experience between Fluxus, sound and movement
The tour of Yuko Mohri & Ei Arakawa-Nash – How We Meet at the Kunstmuseum Bochum opens a precise view of an exhibition that understands art as a living process. On May 20, 2026 at 5:00 PM, the tour will explore a multifaceted structure of installation, sculpture, performance, and sound art. The focus is on two artists whose works critically re-examine the Fluxus tradition and make it productive for the present.
Fluxus as a space of thought in the present
The starting point of the exhibition is the significant Fluxus collection of the Kunstmuseum Bochum. Yuko Mohri and Ei Arakawa-Nash respond to works by Alison Knowles, Daniel Spoerri, Mauricio Kagel, and Geoffrey Hendricks with a playful yet highly reflective exhibition language. The curation connects historical avant-garde with contemporary art production and makes visible how radically the ideas of the 1960s continue to resonate today.
Yuko Mohri: Sound, Readymade and poetic systems
Mohri develops site-specific installations in which everyday objects become sensitive image and sound machines. Umbrellas, light bulbs, rolls of paper, hoses, or fans form a finely balanced web of movement, randomness, and rhythm. Light, humidity, temperature, and the presence of the audience intervene in the artwork's observation and transform the exhibition space into an aesthetic experiment.
Ei Arakawa-Nash: Performance as a social event
Arakawa-Nash works performatively and understands people, things, and images as equal actors. His works open the view to systems such as currency, art market, CO2 footprint, and labor value. The tour makes clear how much his practice is influenced by the Fluxus movement and the Gutai tradition without ever becoming historically stagnant. Instead, an open path emerges, where music, poetry, and collective action shape the exhibition atmosphere.
Water, Money, Salad: a parcours full of associations
Under the concept Water Money Salad, an exhibition unfolds that alternates between metaphorical condensation and material presence. The play with seemingly foreign terms refers to the openness of contemporary art and the power of connection. Visitors experience an art education that not only explains but invites to aesthetic experience.
Conclusion
Anyone who visits this tour will not experience a conventional exhibition explanation but a sophisticated approach to one of the most exciting presentations of contemporary art in Bochum. How We Meet connects art history, contemporary art, and sensual experience to an intense museum visit. Definitely experience it live and let the exhibition resonate in space.
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