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.