On the Road

On the Road gradually unfolds new perspectives on urban mobility, drawing attention to its performative dimension: How do bodies move through the city? How are they seen, heard, read – or silenced and displaced? And how can artistic gestures open up new ways of perceiving and engaging with public space, offering alternative forms of use and appropriation? At the core of this project lies a queer-feminist perspective on mobility, space, and representation.

Cars – often the focus of social critique – simultaneously carry deep symbolic weight: they serve as vehicles of desire, freedom, and identification. Their everyday presence is saturated with emotional, often irrational attachments that go beyond reason or practicality. The contributions for On the Road embrace these ambivalences, disrupt the normatively masculine reading of cars, and reframe them as spaces of possibility: as zones of retreat, movement, protection, cruising – and utopia.

On the Road is at once an artistic project, a discursive platform, and a practice in motion. New contributions by artists regularly explore questions around the body, mobility, visibility, and spatial dynamics. On the Road is currently en route to Stuttgart – towards Driving, Dreaming, Drifting.