Arts at CERN

🔗Amanda E. Metzger - 𝚫 (delta) 🔗 From April 23 to April 30 2026, @panke.gallery presented the exhibition 𝚫 (delta) by Amanda E. Metzger (@amanda.e.metzger ) developed as part of Connect, Arts at CERN’s residency programme in collaboration with @prohelvetia . Amanda E. Metzger’s practice revolves around network theory, authorship and seemingly unquantifiable data collection. Her work explores how memories are made, measured, and shared, with an interest in the possibility of creating a multi-bodied, decentralised common consciousness relying on information sharing and the reconstruction of memories. During her Connect residency at CERN, Amanda E. Metzger was in close dialogue with scientists working on the algorithmic reconstruction of data from particle events. Conversations on the gap between an event in spacetime and our perception of it were fundamental in the development of this work. She addresses the impossibility of fully reconstructing events and the notion that some information is inevitably unaccounted for, questioning how perception shapes reality even at the level of particles, and which discrepancies can emerge when recording, mediating and distributing memories. The exhibition examined the effects of data as abstraction, asking what the resulting difference (𝚫) between reality and what is displaced or inaccessible in the process of making data, and in the formation of personal memories. 𝚫 (delta) can be accessed on mobile phones through delta.metzger.love. It exists as a web-based soundscape that can be collectively experienced anywhere, unfolding when four or more people are gathered together in a large space, and features a musical composition created in collaboration with Lucien Guy Montandon (@lucien_guy_montandon ). Photo credits 📸: Galya Feierman (@galyafeierman ), @press_pass_photography , Courtesy the artist #artsatcern #cern #prohelvetia #connect

💥 Focus on Emilija Škarnulytė @emilijaskarnulyte – Collide Stockholm international residency award recipient 💥 In autumn 2026, Škarnulytė will be a resident at @cern to develop the project Memory of the Unseen. Her practice is rooted in the exploration of infrastructures that mediate between the visible and the invisible, the human and the post-human, the present and the deep temporal. In dialogue with physicists, engineers, and data scientists at CERN, Škarnulytė will engage with event reconstruction, decay signatures, detector sensitivity, and the temporal behaviour of experimental data, focusing on what she describes as “thresholds”. Blending 3D scans, speculative visual sequences, and atmospheric sound, she will explore “fragile spaces where the invisible becomes briefly perceptible”: environments such as detector caverns, tunnels, magnetic infrastructures, and data-processing systems that enable the detection of particle interactions. At @nobelprizemuseum , she will investigate the institution as a site where narratives of scientific discovery enter the cultural sphere and collective memory by researching archival materials, exhibition strategies, and historical narratives. CERN and the Nobel Prize share a commitment to advancing knowledge and recognising scientific breakthroughs. Building on this common legacy, Collide Stockholm supports the development of an artwork that engages with both contexts. Credits: 1. Still from Rakhne, 2023. Courtesy of the artist. 2. Still from Burial, 2022. Courtesy of the artist. 3. Installation view of Æqualia, 2023 at Canal Projects. Commissioned by Canal Projects and 14th Gwangju Biennale. Courtesy of the artist and Canal Projects. Photo: Izzy Leung 4. Installation view of Echidna, 2023 at La Citadelle. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Andrej Vasilenko 5. & 6. Installation view at Tate St Ives, 2025. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Ansis Starks #artsatcern #cern #nobelprize #nobelprizemuseum #collidestockholm

✨Congratulations to Morehshin Allahyari (@morehshin ) and Wendi Yan (@wendiyan ), Honorary Mentions of Collide Stockholm – Arts at CERN’s international residency award, in partnership with the @nobelprizemuseum . Morehshin Allahyari is an artist and an Assistant Professor of Digital Media Art at Stanford University. She uses 3D simulation, video, code, sculpture, digital fabrication and archival practices to re-figure myth and history, weaving together counternarratives of Western technological colonialism in the context of the Middle East and North Africa. Allahyari’s project, which reconfigures computational machines by drawing on automata from the Islamic Golden Era, revisits histories of technological innovation and mechanical intelligence with imaginative potential and aesthetic vision. Wendi Yan is an artist who uses CGI, game engines, and conceptual sculpture to probe the artifice of knowledge and engage with transcultural narratives in science and technology. Her practice explores the possibilities of worldbuilding and metafictional simulation as poetic tools for speculative epistemologies, imagining alternative historical timelines in the psychogeography of the East and West. Yan’s transdisciplinary proposal bridges scholarly depth with current techno-scientific discourses through emerging digital aesthetics. The two artists were awarded an Honorary Mention by the jury in recognition of the outstanding quality of their proposals. @emilijaskarnulyte is the recipient of the Collide Stockholm residency award. Credits: Morehshin Allahyari: 📸 Chani Bockwinkel Wendi Yan: 📸 Jessica Chou #artsatcern #cern #nobelprize #nobelprizemuseum #collidestockholm

A heartfelt thank you to the 908 artists and collectives from 89 countries who applied for #CollideStockholm, Arts at CERN’s international residency award, in partnership with the Nobel Prize Museum @nobelprizemuseum ! The response to our open call was nothing short of impressive ✨We received outstanding submissions in both breadth and quality, showcasing bold approaches to science and technology and their cultural and societal impact. Stay tuned: the recipient of the Collide Stockholm award and Honorary Mentions will be announced on Tuesday, April 28! In the meantime, meet the jury: Clara Åhlvik (@claraahlvik ), Director of Exhibition, Nobel Prize Museum Giulia Bini (@giulia__bini ), Head of Arts at CERN Daniel Birnbaum (@daniel.birnbaum ), Curator and Professor of Philosophy at the Städelschule, Frankfurt Ulf Danielsson, Professor of Theoretical Physics and Secretary of Nobel Committee for Physics Helga Timko, Accelerator physicist at CERN and member of CERN Cultural Board #artsatcern #cern #nobelprize #nobelprizemuseum

Rohini Devasher presents her new film ‘From the Dust of this Planet: A Theory Apparatus for the Observer’, commissioned by Diriyah Biennale Foundation (biennale_sa), at ‘In Interludes and Transitions’, the third Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale (@contemporaryartbiennale_sa ) (January 30 – May 2 2026). Developed following her 2023 Connect India residency at @icts_tifr and @cern , the work draws on philosopher Eugene Thacker’s book In the Dust of This Planet, which frames the planet as a site of horror, an “unthinkable world” which is ultimately uknowable. Blending science fiction, ancient non-western cosmological texts, post humanist philosophy, quantum physics, cosmology, and lived astronomical observation, the work destabilises the observer’s presumed neutrality. Music plays an essential role in revealing a deeply embodied, entangled dialogue between object and observer. For Devasher, the limits of observation and representation function as openings into alternative modes of perception and understanding. “Evoking wonder and horror by turns, the planet emerges not as a mute, inert object adrift in space, but as a generative, relational, and even sentient body—capable of producing phenomena that resist complete empirical observation or quantification. Shape-shifting between object and compound lens, it is both a physical entity and an instrument of perception, suggesting that representation is always partial, always haunted.” Photo credits: Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale 2026, Courtesy of the Diriyah Biennale Foundation @rohinidevasher #cern #artsatcern #ConnectIndia

Soft Robots is soon coming to an end – but it wouldn’t have been the same without our Collide Copenhagen International Residency Award, created in collaboration with @artsatcern A huge thank you to Arts at CERN – and to the incredible artists who have shared their work with us and with you. Joan Heemskerk, entangled binary network (Hello, World!) & NO MATTER, 2024 @alicebucknell Small Void, 2025 @tyna_marc AI Hyperrealism, 2024 Photo: @david_stjernholm

➡️ Meet Juan Sorrentino: one of our Connect Argentina residents Based in Buenos Aires, Juan Sorrentino is a sound artist and researcher whose practice merges natural forces, architecture, and vibration. His work centres on relationships between matter and the sonic memory of materials, exploring sound as a physical phenomenon. Conceptually informed by the Cherenkov Tank, Juan is developing a project that will create a perceptual environment by transforming cosmic data into sonic and visual forms, rendering otherwise imperceptible phenomena experientially perceptible. During his Connect Argentina residency, Juan collaborated with experts in astrophysics, particle physics and theoretical physics to explore new sound materializations. By recording low-frequency signals released by pulsars, neutrinos and subatomic collision using geophones, infrasound microphones, and hydrophones in water tanks, he expanded his investigations of inaudible frequencies beyond conventional architectural and sculptural spaces and into subatomic and astronomical domains. Juan completed a dual residency at @observatoriopierreauger and @cern with fellow resident @celine.manz , furthering their practice by engaging with fundamental research and the scientific communities in Argentina and Geneva. Connect Argentina is part of Connect, the collaboration framework between Arts at CERN and @prohelvetia , organised in partnership with @prohelvetia_southamerica , @presente_continuo_org by @fundacionbungeyborn and Fundación Williams. @juansorrentino Artist portrait 📸: Marina Cavazza #cern #artsatcern #connectargentina #prohelvetia

➡️ Meet Céline Manz: one of our Connect Argentina residents Céline Manz is a research-based multidisciplinary artist from Basel, working across theory, archives, and experimental methodologies. For her Connect Argentina residency, she brings together scientific research with a critical historiography of knowledge politics in physics, focusing on the contributions of physicists Marietta Blau (1894 – 1970) and Bibha Chowdhuri (1913 – 1991) to cosmic ray and particle physics. At @cern she collaborated with scientists of the Nuclear Emulsion and NA61/SHINE teams (@shine.experiment ) among others, recording particle motion and beams and collecting ultrasonic, infrasonic and electromagnetic signals. Céline is developing a project that interweaves field recordings, archival material, early photographic records, and data sonification, translating historical and contemporary scientific inquiry into a sonic, somatic and affective experience. Céline completed a dual residency at @observatoriopierreauger and @cern with fellow resident @juansorrentino , furthering their practice by engaging with fundamental research and the scientific communities in Mendoza and Geneva. Connect Argentina is part of Connect, the collaboration framework between Arts at CERN and @prohelvetia organised in partnership with @prohelvetia_southamerica , @presente_continuo_org by @fundacionbungeyborn and Fundación Williams. @celine.manz Artist portrait 📸: Marina Cavazza #cern #artsatcern #connectargentina #prohelvetia

After spending three weeks at the @observatoriopierreauger in Argentina in November, Swiss artist Céline Manz and Argentinian artist Juan Sorrentino continued the second part of their Connect Argentina residency at @cern . @celine.manz is a research-based multidisciplinary artist who works across theory, archives, and experimental methodologies. During her residency, she focused on connecting scientific research on the fields of cosmic rays and particle physics through a critical historiography of knowledge politics in physics. Her research centered on the contributions of physicists Marietta Blau (1984 – 1970) and Bibha Chowdhuri (1913 – 1991) in these fields. @juansorrentino is a sound artist and experimental musician whose practice spans sonic sculptures and immersive installations. In dialogue with physicists and astrophysicists, he explored new materialisations of sound to translate cosmic and subatomic phenomena into perceptual environments. Connect Argentina is a collaboration between Arts at CERN and @prohelvetia , organised in partnership with @presente_continuo_org , the Arts & Science Program by @fundacionbungeyborn and Fundación Williams. Artists’ portrait 📸: Marina Cavazza #cern #artsatcern #connectargentina #prohelvetia #prohelvetiasouthamerica

Polish artist and researcher @tyna_marc works at the intersection of image, technology, and storytelling. In AI Hyperrealism, she turns to the viral image of Pope Francis in a white Balenciaga coat, coffee in hand – a picture that felt almost too real to question. With careful attention, Marciniak traces how this fabricated photograph surfaced, circulated, and convinced. By following the life of a single image, she opens up a broader reflection on how easily realities can be constructed – and how ready we are to believe them. The work lingers in the fragile space between fiction and fact, asking what truth might mean in an age shaped by AI.

Arts at CERN a le plaisir d’annoncer que Monika Emmanuelle Kazi a été sélectionnée pour la deuxième édition de la résidence Résonance ! Artiste franco-congolaise basée à Genève, @monikaemmanuelle développera ‘Crystalline Memories‘, un projet explorant les perceptions du futur à travers la futurologie, les études prospectives, les cosmogonies et la cosmologie. En s’appuyant sur les recherches menées au CERN – notamment les expériences CLOUD et CAST – le projet reliera recherche scientifique et mémoire diasporique, interrogeant la construction du savoir et notre manière d’imaginer le futur. Félicitations ! La résidence Résonance est un partenariat entre le CERN, la République et Canton de Genève et la Ville de Genève, avec le soutien de la Fondation CERN & Société. –– Arts at CERN is delighted to announce that Monika Emmanuelle Kazi has been selected for the second edition of Resonance! A French-Congolese artist based in Geneva, @monikaemmanuelle will develop ‘Crystalline Memories‘, a project exploring perceptions of the future through futurology, foresight studies, cosmogonies and cosmology. Drawing on research conducted at CERN – particularly the CLOUD and CAST experiments – the project will connect scientific research with diasporic memory, examining how knowledge is constructed and how we imagine the future. Congratulations! Resonance is a partnership framework between @cern , @ge_culture , and @ville_de_geneve , with support from the CERN & Society Foundation. –– #cern #artsatcern #artresidency #artandscience #geneva

#CERNScienceGateway, @cern ’s center for science, outreach, and culture is housed in the iconic building designed by the world-renowned Renzo Piano. Inside one of its two tubular galleries, ‘Exploring the Unknown’ manifests as a fertile ground where art and science co-exist and dialogue. The exhibition features commissioned works by former Arts at CERN residents @juliusvonbismarck , @chloe____delarue , @_ryoji_ikeda_ , and Yunchul Kim @studio_locus_solus . The Science Gateway is open from Tuesday to Sunday, from 9:00 to 17:00. Plan your visit at visit.cern. © Images: Installation views ‘Exploring the Unknown’, CERN Science Gateway. Photos: Marina Cavazza/CERN. 1. Julius von Bismarck & Benjamin Maus, ‘Round About Four Dimensions’, 2023. 2. Ryoji Ikeda, ‘data.gram [n °4]’, 2023 (video still). 3. Yunchul Kim, ‘Chroma VII’, 2023. 4. Chloé Delarue, ‘TAFAA – TINA UNFOLLOW ALICE’, 2023. #cern #artsatcern