Laure Provost's Latest Show is a Leap Into the Quantum Realm
‘WE FELT A STAR DYING’ is now on view at Kraftwerk Berlin until May 4.
In the century since the invention of quantum physics, the field has made an indelible mark on the way we view the world. From the exponential progression of Schrödinger’s cat in 1935 to Microsoft’s newly discovered state of matter in 2025 alone, it’s safe to say that the forward path toward uncharted quantum territory leaves a plume of questions regarding the future of humanity.
At Kraftwerk Berlin, Turner Prize-winning artist Laure Prouvost explores the complexity of quantum phenomena in a new exhibition, WE FELT A STAR DYING, housed within 37,600 square feet of the former power station. Born out of two years of research with a quantum computer, Prouvost translates cosmic questions, theories and frameworks into a multi-sensory audiovisual environment, completed with scents and sculptural elements tuned to quantum cues.
Working alongside philosopher Tobias Rees and scientist Hartmut Neven, the French artist merges a playful perspective with the counterintuitive logic of quantum physics to approach a new line of inquiry: “How could we sense reality from a quantum perspective?” In other words, what does it mean to exist in an entanglement of space and states?
“If things were either natural or technical; either alive or non-living; either human or machine; either being or thing, the beauty of quantum processes is that they are discontinuous with these binaries,” Rees wrote. “Quantum releases us from how we understood the world. To me, the significance of Laure Prouvost’s work is that it identifies and embraces the poetic power of this release – and makes it experiential.”
Commissioned by the LAS Art Foundation, the show marks the launch of Sensing Quantum, a program that encourages collaboration between artists, scientists and thinkers to respond to the emerging field of quantum computing as a cosmic force.
WE FELT A STAR DYING is now on view in Berlin through May 4, 2025.
Kraftwerk Berlin
Köpenicker Str. 70,
10179 Berlin,
Germany
