22/03/2026 – 28/06/2026,

something that flees the hands

, Museum Kurhaus Kleve

something, that flees the hands is a group exhibition at the Museum Kurhaus Kleve (MKK) featuring nine artists and selected works from the MKK collection.

something, that flees the hands revolves around the tension between capture and withdrawal – institutional processes that seek clarity, permanence, and legibility, and artistic strategies that assert opacity, movement, or fugue. Contrary to the practice of fixing artworks within established systems of interpretation, something, that flees the hands foregrounds volatility and transformation as central forces.

By revealing the infrastructural, archival, and administrative systems that shape visibility – classification tools, spatial restrictions, conservation protocols – the works of the invited artists question the stabilising mechanisms with which institutions define, categorise, and represent meaning. Through installations, sound and moving-image pieces, and performances, something, that flees the hands illustrates how objects, bodies, and narratives can resist institutional appropriation and challenge the museum's authority as a producer of stable meaning(s).

something, that flees the hands is curated by Anneliese Ostertag und Antoine Simeão Schalk.