Julius von Bismarck’s This is not the storm at ACCA

German installation artist Julius von Bismarck's first Australian exhibition, This is not the storm, investigates the mysterious mechanisms that shape our constructed worlds.

In his first Australian solo exhibition, This is not the storm, at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA), von Bismarck exposes the ruinous force of nature and the mysterious mechanisms that shape our constructed world. Impressively curated by Dr Shelley McSpedden, the show presents a compelling exchange between the celestial, with harmonic soundscapes alongside a large-scale kinetic orbiting sculpture and a foreboding eruption. Some works function as psychic registers of control, with gestures of authority, theatricality and the absurd, while others probe the demarcation between humanity and the natural world; revealing a self-governing system inside an automated artifice.