Artists Yuko Mohri and Ei Arakawa-Nash are collaborating for the first time for How We Meet, inspired by works from the museum’s collection. Both artists are influenced by experimental art movements such as Fluxus. Using simple means and crossing genres, the Fluxus movement redefined art production in the 1960s, choosing not museums but homes and public spaces as venues for their exhibitions, concerts, performances and happenings. It was not the individual genius but the idea that came to the fore.
Mohri and Arakawa-Nash pick up on this for How We Meet, creating an idiosyncratic exhibition as a large walk-in installation with works from the museum’s Fluxus collection as well as newly created artworks that move between performance, sound and sculpture. As a response to and continuation of the major exhibition How We Met, which presented the new Fluxus string in the art museum’s collection for the first time in 2025, Mohri and Arakawa-Nash refer in How We Meet to the present and in particular to works by Fluxus artists Alison Knowles, Geoffrey Hendricks, George Brecht and Mauricio Kagel.
As the title suggests, How We Meet is about encounters of various kinds: between the audience and art, between material and space, and between the two artists and the collection.
Among other things, Yuko Mohri is showing her installation Moré Moré (Leaky Tokyo) in a version specially adapted for the Kunstmuseum Bochum. Mohri creates kinetic sound sculptures by causing water leaks and attempting to plug them. The work is complete when she succeeds in controlling the leak and returning the water to the cycle.
For this exhibition, Ei Arakawa-Nash explores the works in the Fluxus collection, including the CO2 emissions they generate and how these can be represented.
Participation is included in the museum admission fee. The meeting point is at the museum ticket desk.