When the British naturalist John Hogg proposed a fourth kingdom of nature in 1860, alongside animals, plants and minerals, he created a place for the unclassifiable: for those infusoria, animalcula and zoophytes that eluded the taxonomy of his time. He called it Regnum Primigenium, the primordial kingdom of the first living beings. Aljoscha turns once again to the Protoctista, this time not as a retrospective gaze at the primordial soup of Earth's history, but as a hypothesis of synthetic evolution.
At the heart of the exhibition is an expansive, suspended installation composed of countless individually shaped and pigmented sculptures made of lightweight acrylic glass. The work has been conceived and assembled specifically for the space. Aljoscha envisions the Suppan gallery as a cradle of light, a historical Petri dish in which his biofacts proliferate. Translucent and vibrantly coloured, they spread like a superorganism of the ether, like a galaxy in statu nascendi. Their clarity and transparency generate reflections, a gentle mirroring that draws both the space and the viewer into the composition.