miniature – zero horizon – david weber-krebs

In September 2025, two months before the public opening of Kanal–Centre Pompidou in Brussels, Alexander Schellow and David Weber‑Krebs will present Zero Horizon, a new iteration of their long‑term project Miniature.

The work takes place at a moment when the building has already physically transformed as a museum space, but has not yet entered its public life as such. Corridors, halls, and infrastructures are present, yet the narratives, exhibitions, and routines that will define the museum are yet in process to be realized. The doors are still closed.

Zero Horizon approaches this condition not as a preliminary stage but as a precious temporal situation. Conceived for a single spectator at a time, it proposes a minimal sequence of perceptual situations—walks, sounds, fragments of narration. While the spectator oscillates between observation, imagination, and participation the architecture becomes at once uncertain and discernable.

Within such ambiguity the building of Kanal is read as a kind of “ruin in reverse”. Rather than the remains of a past structure, it exposes the outline of a (past) future one. Robert Smithson described such places as landscapes where construction already resembles archaeological sites.

Zero Horizon (working title) approaches the museum as a projected memory: an institution briefly encountered in an architectural state suspended between ruin and realization, at an horizon between future past and past future.

Further details will be announced soon.

miniature – zero horizon

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kanal/centre pompidou