HYBRID BOX – Modular Gallery for Digital Arts

Moritz Frei | I don’t believe in dinosaurs. (2017/2021) | 19.11.2021 – 13.02.2022

Since March 2021, the light artwork “I don’t believe in dinosaurs. has been shining from the roof of the Galerie der Gegenwart of the Hamburger Kunsthalle, appealing directly to the viewers in the museum’s outdoor area: “I don’t believe in dinosaurs. It is the statement of a child after seeing the dinosaur skeletons in the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin and doubting their authenticity. The work of Moritz Frei (*1978) poses questions about individual attitudes – about how we inform ourselves, how we tell about things and seek exchange with others. 

HYBRID is now bringing Moritz Frei’s work to Dresden, but is deliberately presenting it in the HYBRID BOX container, which is not accessible but can be viewed at the same time. The artwork as well as the child’s statement thus take on a documentary character, are set as a historical statement. On the other hand, the HYBRID BOX demands and enables an active and curious appropriation and open discussion until the last day of the presentation, 13 February, which is not only memorable for Dresden.

In his materiality, Berlin-based artist Moritz Frei draws on the work of US conceptual artists who discovered the neon tube as a means of artistic expression in the 1960s. After Frei was a guest at the Dresden Contemporary Music Days in 2019 with “Antitussivum”, with this work he focuses above all on the expression of a personal doubt, on the questioning of truths and certainties.