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WAVA is an innovative nonprofit platform for site-specific augmented interventions. Artworks accessible on-site through the free-to-download app ⬇️

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Announcing “Here, where we are” — a WAVA exhibition initiated by Kulturfonds Frankfurt RheinMain with eight new virtual interventions sprawling across the public space of the Main-Taunus district.

On the occasion of the World Design Capital 2026 in Frankfurt am Main and the surrounding region, eight site-specific AR installations by eleven international artists expand public space across several municipalities in the Main-Taunus-Kreis. “Hier, wo wir sind – virtuelle Kunst um’s Eck” examines public space in the hybrid age and explores how virtual interventions can change the ways we interact with and perceive our surroundings by bringing new perspectives, narratives, and historical references to light.

Download the free WAVA app and go find the work on site!

Curated by Ben Livne Weitzman and Dalwin Kryeziu

Participating artists, municipalities, and opening dates 🗓️

Tamara Grčić at the Landratsamt Hofheim
April 29, 2026, 6:30 PM

Alona Rodeh at Ehemalige Phrix Cellulose- und Papierfabrik, Hattersheim am Main
May 8, 2026, 6:00 PM

Thủy Tiên Nguyễn & Wanwen Zhang at the Kurpark Bad Soden
May 10, 2026, 11:00 AM

Lena Müller & Claudia Pense in Kelkheim
May 15, 2026, 6:00 PM

François Pisapia & Pauli Scharlach at the Wasserschloss Hofheim
May 21, 2026, 6:00 PM

Tomás Maglione at the Stadtbahnhof Eppstein
May 30, 2026, 6:00 PM

Mohsen Hazrati at the Hochheimer Markt
June 14, 2026, 4:00 PM

Lucas Larochelle under the Opelbrücke Flörsheim
July 10, 2026, 6:00 PM

“Hier, wo wir sind – virtuelle Kunst um’s Eck” is an exhibition by WAVA, initiated by the Kulturfonds Frankfurt RheinMain as part of the World Design Capital 2026. taken in Main-Taunus-Kreis by @wava__ar

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6 months ago

Uplifting Instruction. Venice. 2026. taken in Venice, Italy by @wava__ar

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5 months ago

𝔸𝕡𝕡𝕒𝕣𝕚𝕥𝕚𝕠𝕟𝕤

WAVA and the 36th Bienal de São Paulo present Apparitions, a first-of-its-kind global augmented exhibition, bringing the Bienal’s artworks to site-specific locations worldwide.

Currently, Apparitions by Maxwell Alexandre, Akinbode Akinbiyi, Michele Ciacciofera, Adama Delphine Fawundu, Ruth Ige, Andrew Roberts, Juliana dos Santos, Ming Smith, Theo Eshetu, Vilanismo, and Cici Wu with Yuan Yuan can be encountered in Auckland, Badagry, Beijing, Brasilia, Kinshasa, Hong Kong, New York City, Giza, Dakar, Rio de Janeiro, Tijuana / San Diego (on the border), and across São Paulo—with more artists and locations to follow in the coming months.

Download the WAVA app for free for iOS and Android and go find these Apparitions around the world!

Film by @joaogabrielhidalgo & team taken in Bienal São Paulo by @wava__ar

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Compromise / B’s Theme
Thủy Tiên Nguyễn and Wanwen Zhang

Alter Kurpark
Bad Soden am Taunus

Thủy Tiên Nguyễn and Wanwen Zhang draw inspiration from the East Asian tales of the Liaozhai Zhiyi – a manuscript of stories in which love transcends social and supernatural boundaries. In the old Kurpark, figures from these mythologies appear: spirits disguised as humans and the scholars who fall in love with them, in the form of two animated sculptures that appear by a fountain and across the pond. The accompanying soundscapes are generated by instruments that utilize water, pressure, and gravity – the waterphone and water gong. The works transform the idyllic setting into a meeting place of collective storytelling, where the park’s underground water sources and healing fountains become symbols of concealed truths and mysterious encounters.

Download the free WAVA app and go find the work on site!

“Hier, wo wir sind – virtuelle Kunst um’s Eck” is an exhibition by WAVA initiated by the Kulturfonds Frankfurt RheinMain as part of the World Design Capital 2026. taken in Kurpark Bad Soden by @wava__ar

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Real-time Fogging (Live Edition)
Alona Rodeh

Former Phrix cellulose and paper factory
Kirschgrabenstraße 9, 65795
Hattersheim am Main

With “Real-time Fogging (Live Edition)” in Hattersheim, Rodeh engages with the history of the former Phrix cellulose and paper factory, once owned by the Jewish Offenheimer family, who were forced into exile in 1938. Her work depicts a black-and-white brick wall that collapses and rebuilds itself over and over again. The moment of destruction itself is pixelated and appears to elude the viewer’s gaze. Referencing military and media tactics of concealment – walls of fog and pixelation obscure what must not be seen – the work functions as a monument reflecting the limitations of remembrance and the representation of violence.

Download the free WAVA app and go find the work on site!

“Hier, wo wir sind – virtuelle Kunst um’s Eck” is an exhibition by the WAVA initiated by the Kulturfonds Frankfurt RheinMain as part of the World Design Capital 2026. taken in Hattersheim am Main by @wava__ar

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5 days ago

Migratory Birds
Tamara Grčić

Landratsamt
Am Kreishaus 1 - 5 65719
Hofheim

Migratory Birds disrupt the bureaucratic structures within the imposing architecture of the Kreishaus, the district building in Hofheim: cranes appear in the courtyard, unfolding across the space in a shared soar. In the background, William Shakespeare’s The Stranger’s Case is performed, where Thomas More calms a mob rioting against immigrants in 1517 London by asking them to imagine being refugees themselves, banished and treated with the same cruelty they show to the “strangers”. The cranes’ movements redefine the space — and the movements of visitors, their upward glances, become part of a shared choreography of gathering.

Text: The Stranger’s Case, from Sir Thomas More (1591-3), by William Shakespeare
Read by Wolfram Koch

3D design and motion: Remko Van der Auwera.

Download the free WAVA app and go find the work on site! Link in bio.

“Hier, wo wir sind – virtuelle Kunst um’s Eck” is an exhibition by the WAVA initiated by the Kulturfonds Frankfurt RheinMain as part of the World Design Capital 2026. taken in Kreishaus by @wava__ar

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8 days ago

This is one of those if you know where to look moments :)

I’m already out of Berlin, so I didn’t get to spend as much time at this year’s Art Week as I would have liked. But because I’m always interested in innovative ways of experiencing art, I had to make a few quick rounds with @wava__ar and @bienalsaopaulo around the city of Berlin.

Through Apparitions, works from the 36th São Paulo Biennial appear as digital extensions in selected locations around the world, inviting you to encounter art through your phone and the spaces around you. I love how they’ve quietly taken over Art Week, with works by artists including Adama Delphine Fawundu, Akinbode Akinbiyi, Ming Smith, Andrew Roberts and more appearing in unexpected places.

Something different, forward thinking, away from the usual at #berlinartweek. Experiencing art across borders, while also challenging the status quo of how and where we encounter it.

Maybe we do a walk soon? Would be cool, @benlw. Learn more on prazzlearts.com by @wava__ar

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Apparitions is coming to Berlin.

With Akinbode Akinbiyi, Maxwell Alexandre, Michele Ciacciofera, Cevdet Erek, Theo Eshetu, Ruth Ige, Hamedine Kane, Lidia Lisbôa, Adjani Okpu‑Egbe, Andrew Roberts, Juliana dos Santos, Ming Smith, Camille Turner, Vilanismo, and Cici Wu with Yuan Yuan.

Opening next week Friday (11.9), around the HKW and across the city.

Not All Travellers Walk Roads—Of Humanity as Practice

The 36 Bienal de São Paulo x WAVA taken in Haus der Kulturen der Welt by @wava__ar

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»Uplifting Instruction« (2026) by William Forsythe

Das neue Werk »Uplifting Instruction« von @william_forsythe_ am @zkmkarlsruhe lädt dazu ein, eine Botschaft in der virtuellen Welt zu finden.

Die appbasierte Augmented Reality (AR)-Installation, die während der Eröffnung der Biennale in Venedig im April 2026 vorgestellt wurde, zeigt vier Flugzeuge am Himmel über dem ZKM, die jeweils ein schwarzes Banner hinter sich herziehen. Gemeinsam bilden die Banner eine Handlungsanweisung. Um diese vollständig lesen zu können, muss man sich bewegen und den Flugzeugen mit dem Bildschirm des Smartphones folgen.

The new work ‘»Uplifting Instruction« by @william_forsythe_ at @zkmkarlsruhe invites you to discover a message in the virtual world.

The app-based augmented reality (AR) installation, premiered during the opening of the Venice Biennale in April 2026, features four airplanes flying across the sky above the ZKM, each towing a black banner. Together, the banners form an instruction for action. To read the message in its entirety, viewers must move and follow the airplanes with their smartphone screens.

© William Forsythe, »Uplifting Instruction«, 2026, Appbasierte AR-Installation,  Courtesy WAVA @wava__ar
Graphic design @designsmile.de
Studio Director Forsythe Production Julian Gabriel Richter
Curator Margit Rosen @zkm_collections & Philipp Ziegler, Curatorial project management Jelena Matičić taken in ZKM - Zentrum für Kunst und Medien Karlsruhe by @wava__ar

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Adjani Okpu-Egbe / Premonition of Ngarbuh

Wilhelmstraße 92, Berlin
Site of the Berlin Conference 1884-5

Premonition of Ngarbuh (2020-2024), produced in response to the 2020 Ngarbuh massacre in Cameroon, confronts the horrors of state-sanctioned violence,in which women and children bear the brunt while the “international community” remains silent.

Harrowing and emotionally unflinching, the depiction of ghost-like figures flanked by a scorched landscape – with children playing a jump rope game surrounded by strange animals – evokes a haunting sense of insecurity. The shelved objects speak to loss, spiritual desecration, and resilience. In documenting this tragic failure of decolonial processes and the forgotten armed conflict that has engulfed the English-speaking regions of Cameroon since 2016, Okpu-Egbe echoes Picasso’s Guernica (1937) and makes an urgent contribution to art history – a gesture that answers the call for public intellectualism.

Displayed alongside is An Allegorical Conglomeration of Origins and Inevitabilities (2024), rooted in envisioning Black futures. Its dense layering – a tapestry of autobiographical content foundational to the artist’s storytelling – includes symbols such as vine-bearing lemons, braids, clocks, and lanterns. These elements meditate on inevitabilities intended to shape what the artist describes as “Black Consciousness in Black Futures” (BCBF).

Text by Billy Fowo in collaboration with the artist.

Download the WAVA app and go find the work on site! Link in bio.

Part of Apparitions, the 36th Bienal de São Paulo with WAVA. taken in Wilhelmstraße, Berlin by @wava__ar

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3 months ago

Räume erzählen: Virtuelle Kunst in der #Villa102

Am 15. Juli, 13:00 Uhr laden wir zu einer Führung durch die Welt der virtuellen Kunst.

In Zusammenarbeit mit der digitalen Plattform @wava__ar erkunden wir das Potential von Kunst im Zeitalter der Digitalität.

Drei Positionen werden virtuell gezeigt:

• Heavy on the Scale 121g (2025) – @salwaleryani
• The Evidence (2023) – @elianurvista
• Untitled (2011) – @khvaysamnang

🍦Als kleine Aufmerksamkeit gibt es Eis für alle Besucher*innen

📅 15. Juli, 13:00 Uhr
📍 VILLA 102, Bockenheimer Landstr. 102, Frankfurt am Main
ca. 60 min
🔗 Anmeldung & Infos: Link in Bio

Führung: @danielaleykam , Programmleitung Kunst & Kultur, KfW Stiftung

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Spaces Tell Stories: Virtual Art at #villa102

On July 15 at 1:00 p.m., we invite you to join us for a guided tour through the world of virtual art.

In collaboration with the digital platform @wava__ar, we’ll explore the potential of art in the digital age.

Three works will be presented virtually:

• Heavy on the Scale 121g (2025) – @salwaleryani
• The Evidence (2023) – @elianurvista
• Untitled (2011) – @khvaysamnang

🍦As a small treat, there will be ice cream for all visitors

📅 July 15, 1:00 p.m.
📍 VILLA 102, Bockenheimer Landstr. 102, Frankfurt am Main
approx. 60 min.
🔗 Registration & info: Link in bio

Guided tour by @danielaleykam, Programme Management Arts and Culture

Video: @pola.sell

#VirtualArt #Event #Frankfurt #KfWStiftung by @wava__ar

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3 months ago

The Opel Bridge was built over the River Main to facilitate the quicker transport of workers from Flörsheim to the Opel automobile factory in Rüsselsheim. The bridge and factory stand as infrastructural examples of Germany’s industrialization and the role of the automobile in the reorganization of the economy and modern life. Lucas LaRochelle’s Riding High Above Ground responds to this history by drawing a parallel between industrialization and the growing impact of artificial intelligence on labour, infrastructure and social life. The installation extracts the cars that appear in Sometimes I Forget What Feeling Felt Like Because I Was Never There When It Happened, a film created using QT.bot, a machine learning model trained on submissions to Queering the Map and their corresponding Street View imagery, and places them beneath the bridge

Lucas LaRochelle is a designer and researcher whose work is concerned with queer and trans digital cultures, community-based archiving, and artificial intelligence. They are the founder of Queering The Map, a community generated counter-mapping platform for digitally archiving LGBTQ2IA+ experience in relation to physical space.

Join us for the final opening of “Hier, wo wir sind – Digitale Kunst um’s Eck” this Friday in Flörsheim am Main.

Lucas LaRochelle in Flörsheim am Main
July 10, 2026, 6:00 PM
Opelbrücke
Liebigstraße 1
65439 Flörsheim am Main

Download the free WAVA app and discover the work on site!

“Hier, wo wir sind – virtuelle Kunst um’s Eck” is an exhibition by WAVA, initiated by Kulturfonds Frankfurt RheinMain as part of the World Design Capital 2026. taken in Opelbrücke by @wava__ar

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