INTERACTIONS 2024 (group)

BUNDESKUNSTHALLE, BONN, GERMANY

1 MAY – 27 OCTOBER 2024

Interactions 2024 once again transforms the indoor and outdoor spaces of the Bundeskunsthalle into a playful and thought-provoking art parcours. Alongside permanent installations like Jeppe Hein’s Circular Appearing Rooms and Carsten Höller’s Bonn Slide, new works invite visitors to interact, reflect, and connect across boundaries through a shared visual language.

Esra Gülmen’s Controversy Teeter-Totter explores balance through seesaws that juxtapose opposing statements, encouraging playful yet critical engagement with dualities in our everyday communication.

Other participating artists include Temitayo Ogunbiyi, Finnegan Shannon, LIGNA, Olaf Nicolai, FAMED, Jonas Lund, and Tomas Kleiner. Together, their works foster openness, challenge conventions, and offer accessible points of connection between art and audience.

CONTROVERSY TEETER-TOTTER (SERIES)

Controversy Teeter-Totter is a series of interactive sculptures that take the form of seesaws — each functioning independently — to explore the paradoxes and emotional complexities inherent in everyday life. Drawing from personal introspection as well as universal experiences, the work reflects on the contradictory thoughts and feelings that shape human nature.

Originally inspired by an ongoing book project titled Contradictionary, which collected opposing concepts with a humorous tone, the sculptures evolved as a physical extension of that exploration. Rather than presenting binary oppositions as conflicting truths, the teeter-totters suggest a dialectical relationship between extremes — emphasizing the importance of balance, connection, and the inevitability of life’s emotional ups and downs.

By inviting visitors to engage with the sculptures physically, the series transforms abstract inner tensions into a shared, embodied experience.