Aliens are temporary - a mutating narrative is an invitation to think about plural worlds and multiple states of being. The exhibition project is an attempt to break with the logic of human exceptionalism and to overcome binary paradigms between living beings and objects, and between the "us" and the "other".

What does otherness mean? Who or what is perceived as foreign or different and why? To what extent is the so-called other a changing concept? How can this be reflected in the materiality of an exhibition, in space and time?

The exhibition project brings together contemporary artists* who explore alternative (cosmo)visions and create new bodies, subjects, and ways of living. Their works combine various disciplines and schools of thought from biology to sociology, via posthumanism, New Materialism, science fiction, and environmental studies, and take speculative, vitalist, and queer-feminist perspectives as they constitute and construct bodies, societies, and realities beyond the discursive.

Over time, Aliens are temporary - a mutating narrative will undergo four mutations (three at Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien and one at Kunstbrücke am Wildenbruch) and thereby become a living and mutating organism itself. Starting from an initially sparsely and minimally used exhibition space, the audience experiences new artworks, installations, and arrangements with each successive mutation. Each of these mutations is complemented by a speculative literary text that associatively interweaves the artworks. The becomings ' accompanying program of lectures, a reading circle, a screening, a listening session, and a walk in public space further expands and enlivens the four mutations.