The works of Lanz are multimedia, bringing together things, humans, and machines. The focus is on materiality, direct contact with the world, material processes, and spaces that increasingly recede into the background through the use of technology. A desire arises to intervene in the flow of images and things, the visitors are playfully involved, experiencing transformations while realizing that they are also dealing with artifice: Through the seductive parallel world of fleeting images, they are referred back to everyday life.

Eric Lanz was born in 1962 in Biel/Bienne (Switzerland), studied at the Ecole Supérieure d’Arts Visuels in Geneva and at the Art Academy in Düsseldorf. He served as a lecturer in the field of media art at the University of Design in Karlsruhe and in the field of new media at the Academy of Fine Arts in Mainz. Since 2010, Eric Lanz has been a professor of video and artistic photography at HBKsaar, living and working in Düsseldorf and Saarbrücken. His areas of work and teaching include time-based, linear and non-linear video works as well as complex, interactive installations and photographic works.

The exhibition is accompanied by the publication "Eric Lanz. Works and Materials", supported by the Kunstfonds Foundation, published by Vexer Verlag, providing an overview of Eric Lanz's work, with a foreword by Fritz Emslander, a dialogue between the artist and Matthias Winzen, and essays by Katja Pilisi and Laurent Adert.