HELEN PYNOR ‘Silver Egg: The Eros of Media Art’ at ZKM | Centre for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany

July 17, 2026

Helen Pynor will be featured in the major exhibition ‘Silver Egg: The Eros of Media Art’ at ZKM | Centre for Art and Media in Karlsruhe, Germany, from 4.07.26 – 21.02.27. The exhibition brings together leading international artists working across media art, installation, robotics, film, sound, and emerging technologies.

Curated around the concept of Eros as a creative and transformative force, ‘Silver Egg’ will explore how media art can engage contemporary desires, vulnerabilities, and possibilities. Drawing on ancient mythologies in which Eros emerges from a silver cosmic egg as a force of creation and renewal, the exhibition invites audiences into immersive environments of sound, light, scent, movement, and touch.

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Image caption: ‘93% Human’, Helen Pynor, 2023. Single channel video projection, 8-channel sound, single channel video on screen, scientific glassware objects. Lead Collaborators: Amanda Cole, Composer; Associate Professor Jimmy Breen, Bioinformatician and Geneticist, Chief Data Scientist, Black Ochre Data Labs at Telethon Kids and The Australian National University. Photo: Helen Pynor. Image courtesy of the artist.