What if the familiar streets of Lüneburg were suddenly flooded, the town hall floated through the air on colorful balloons, computers handed down court rulings, Lüneburg had a spaceport, and robots sat comfortably in cafés drinking coffee and eating cake?
Birgit Horns and Walter Pfefferle's works create images of the future that seem both absurd and frighteningly close; between humor and thoughtfulness, they show a world in which the boundaries between humans and machines, reality and fiction, past and future begin to blur—quite literally.
Rubber ducks float past historic facades, air taxis park in front of the registration office, a salt pig wades through the city’s new element in rubber boots—Lüneburg now lies by the sea, and the world is full of possibilities.
But beneath the ironic lightness of these scenes lies a serious question:
What will our city, our world, look like if progress continues to accelerate, if nature and technology, history and the future become inextricably intertwined?
Here’s a little preview:
The two artists lead viewers deeper into this in-between space—where humans and machines merge, where water, as a symbol of change, washes over everything—where our certainties dissolve and we enter completely uncharted territory.
An invitation to ask, with a smile and a thoughtful look:
What if the future had already begun?
