• Einstein Rosen Brücke

    Installation with Michael Schmitt, at Kunstraum Anakoluth, Köln

    Video also available in german, featuring the audio guide from the exhibiton, which then was provided by a phone number.

    A model train disappears into a tunnel in the left-hand window of a closed gallery. Instantly—without delay—it emerges from a second tunnel in the window to the right, gliding into view as if the distance between them had collapsed completely. Between the two windows lies a transparent glass door, revealing that no physical connection exists. And yet, the train seems to jump.

    Einstein Rosen Bridge is a quietly delightful intervention into both everyday space and the physics of illusion. Named after the theoretical “bridge” or wormhole that connects two points in spacetime (first described by Einstein and physicist Nathan Rosen in 1935), the piece evokes a familiar trope from science fiction: the impossible portal that makes the fantastic plausible. A phone number posted near the work offered callers a brief explanation of the Einstein-Rosen bridge, but offered no clues about the mechanics of the train itself.

    Technically, the trick is achieved through a carefully timed choreography between two identical Märklin H0 model trains, sensors, and a custom microcontroller hidden from view. But the artists deliberately leave the technology in the background. What matters is the feeling—a moment of magic in the middle of a quiet street, where something as ordinary as a model train becomes a vehicle for surprise, wonder, and maybe a little bit of sci-fi awe.

    Born from a playful back-and-forth between two longtime collaborators, the piece also touches—gently—on ideas of childhood nostalgia, the suspension of disbelief, and the serious possibilities of “adult toys.” Installed during the gallery’s summer closure, Einstein Rosen Bridge turned the shopfront itself into a kind of time-space experiment: a speculative fiction you could stumble upon while walking by.

  • Einstein Rosen Brücke

    Einstein Rosen Brücke, with M. Schmitt
    shown at kitev, Oberhausen

    Based on found footage video from a outdoor model train track in Arizona, a connection between the location and time of the recording, and the exhibiton space, is created. When the train inside the video goes into a tunnel, the screen goes black, and a train suddenly appears in the exhibition space.

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    Einstein-Rosen-Bridge at “Brink Ereignis – Zwischen Wissenschaft und Kunst” (Brink Magazine Event – Between Science and Art), Wuppertal 22nd of June 2012. With Michael Schmitt

  • Einstein Rosen Brücke

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    In an empty shop window, two different realities are combined: One taking place in the TV, showing a youtube-clip of the longest outdoor model train ride. The other is seen in the back of the shop, real model train tracks. When the train in the TV dissapears in a tunnel, the screen goes blank and a train is taking one round in the shop, with the video continuing after the real train is gone again. A collaboration with Michael Schmitt. And here is some video documentation: