Multispezies Members Club
From 28 March to 6 September 2026, the Museum Giersch at Goethe University in Frankfurt will be hosting the exhibition ‘Multispecies Members Club. New Alliances between Living and Artificial Systems’. As part of World Design Capital Frankfurt Rhine-Main 2026, the museum will become an experimental space where humans, animals, plants, bacteria and technical systems are conceived as equal actors. The exhibition is curated by Andreas Greiner, Ina Neddermeyer and Susanne Wartenberg.
The show examines how technologies such as artificial intelligence, blockchain and algorithmic systems could enable communication between different species. At the same time, the artistic works also address the challenges of technology: digital infrastructures consume resources and can reinforce existing power relations.
New Alliances Between Nature, Technology and Society
One of the central pieces is the installation ‘Garden Protocol’ by artist and curator Andreas Greiner, in which a machine learning system controls the watering of plants and reveals ecological dependencies. Technological systems are also the focus of the sound installation ‘Conspiracy Theory’: here, three AI models engage in an ongoing trialogue about social and political models. In the museum garden, the work ‘What do birds tweet about?’ by Baltic Raw Org translates bird calls into short text fragments, making a non-human voice tangible.
Other projects deal with hybrid life forms, digital ecosystems and new forms of participation. Xenia Snow, a graduate of the HfG Offenbach, has created ‘Cyber Chimeras’, a visual archive of futuristic hybrid beings made up of biological and technological elements, while Tree and Rocket involve visitors in the analysis and evaluation of online content with interactive arcade machines. Works such as ‘Autonomous Forest’ by terra0 and ‘Convivial Commons Congress’ by Matthias Einhoff also explore models of ecological participation in which non-human actors are symbolically involved in decision-making processes.
The exhibition is accompanied by an extensive educational programme with guided tours, workshops, film and lecture series, and events such as Museum Night on 25 April and Digital Day on 26 June, where art and science will discuss humanity, technology and society.
