Opening Saturday 19.09, 19h, at NAK Neuer Aachener Kunstverein (DE)
The exhibition’s title, Somnium (Latin for ‘dream’), is taken from the book of the same name by astronomer Johannes Kepler, written in 1609 and published posthumously in 1634. Somnium is considered one of the most influential and earliest works of scientific fiction, which continues to inspire scientific, literary, and visual motifs to this day: Kepler incorporated radical astronomical discoveries—particularly the Copernican worldview—into a fictional framework to make them conceivable, discussable, and socially acceptable.
