In All Weathers is the first solo exhibition by the Dutch artist Lennart Lahuis in a German Kunstverein. The exhibition explores processes of transformation, instability and exchange that shape both natural environments and human systems of meaning.
At the core of Lahuis' practice lies the relationship between matter and language. Water, fire, air, and earth appear not as stable categories, but rather forces in constant flux. They carry traces of life, memory and storytelling, forming the basis of myths, histories and systems of knowledge that have no single origin. Like rivers, sediments or weather patterns, these narratives are continuously shaped, rewritten and eroded over time.
Bringing together four bodies of work, In All Weathers follows the movement of information through different states of matter. Texts emerge as traces in worn denim, are drawn onto heated steel through perspiration and oxidation, appear briefly as water vapour in the air, and persist as fragmented inscriptions impressed into clay. Across these works, language is never fixed. It is carried by bodies, weather systems, geological processes and material surfaces that continuously alter its form.
Throughout the exhibition, acts of writing, imprinting and erosion function as recurring gestures. The clay works of the MURMUR series evoke archaeological fragments whose meanings remain incomplete, while HYDROLOGY renders the water cycle visible through words that materialise and dissolve in the atmosphere. The denim works and CALORGRAPHS similarly register forms of contact, translating everyday habits and bodily presence into subtle records of time and transformation.
Rather than offering fixed meanings or definitive narratives, the works foreground processes of emergence and disappearance. Matter acts as a temporary carrier of memory, while meaning remains subject to continuous revision. The works resemble carefully constructed experimental arrangements of thought, which can never fully secure the conditions of their own possibility – and it is precisely in this lack of closure that they take form.
- Susanne Prinz, Kunstverein am Rosa Luxemburg Platz
