Sloppy – NEBYULA x EIGEN + ART Lab

January 9th - February 7th 2026

Simona Andrioletti, Rebekka Benzenberg, Iris Helena Hamers, Jonas Höschl, Julius Niemeyer, Philipp Pess, Rosanna Marie Pondorf, Alexander Scharf

Curated by: Alexander Scharf and the Jonas Höschl

In a present in which visual and informational stimuli incessantly pour in on us, processes of perception are increasingly pushed under pressure. Meanings fragment, attention becomes a contested resource. "Sloppy" positions itself precisely within this tension field: between algorithmic image production, mental overload, and the aesthetics of a media-saturated excess.

Slop, a term that emerged around 2022 in digital discourse, refers to the mass-produced content generated by artificial intelligence: visual and textual outputs that are formally sleek yet remain substantively empty. The exhibition does not affirm slop; instead, it renders it legible as a symptom of a boundless media regime that privileges quantity over quality, a regime in which aesthetic production becomes nothing more than a function of computational processes.

The group show "sloppy" refuses the notion of a coherent narrative or linear dramaturgy. Instead, a heterogeneous field of aesthetic gestures emerges, in which artistic works are conceived as vectors: forces that move, overlap, and influence one another. This vectoriality points to a curatorial structure that does not arrange but rather reveals relationships, frictions, resonances, contrasts.

Supported and funded by the Karin and Uwe Hollweg Foundation