Tamiko Thiel Debuts New Works in Munich and New York
We are delighted to share two upcoming exhibitions by Tamiko Thiel, presented this winter in Munich and New York. Known for her pioneering work at the intersection of art, technology, and immersive environments, Thiel debuts ParadoQc/Machines, a newly commissioned AR livestream installation exploring the quantum structures of the strontium atom, at the ERES Stiftung in Munich. Shortly thereafter, she travels to New York for the Tribeca launch of ONX Studio’s new space, where Atmos Sphaerae will be shown for the first time as a three-screen immersive installation.
ParadoQc/Machines AR livestream immersive installation. Installation view at the ERES Foundation, 2025.
ParadoQc/Machines at “Seeing the Unseen”, ERES Stiftung, Munich
ParadoQc/Machines is an AR livestream installation that offers a detailed view into the quantum levels of the atom and the ways in which the quantum properties of superposition and entanglement are now used to build computers from these quantum states. While many types of quantum computers exist, this work focuses on the neutral atom quantum computer, as it allows these quantum properties to be shown clearly through the structures of the atoms and their electron probability clouds.
The work is commissioned by the ERES Foundation for the exhibition "Seeing the Unseen: Quantum physics and art as entangled worlds," which will open on 04 December 2025 and run until 26 September 2026.
Seeing the Unseen explores the mysterious, enigmatic, and counterintuitive. Anyone who ventures into the world of quantum physics often has to take a leap of faith. Particles that are also waves, probabilities instead of certainties, realities that only manifest themselves through observation: the world at the smallest scale defies our imagination, forms the basis for radically new technologies such as quantum computers, and also fascinates artists.
With the exhibition “Seeing the Unseen”, the ERES Foundation invites visitors on an interdisciplinary journey into the quantum world. One hundred years after the pioneering achievements of Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg and others, the latest scientific findings meet contemporary art. In the show, the themes of quantum physics intertwine in Elsa Garmire’s psychedelic laser shows, overlap in Tamiko Thiel’s mixed reality installation, and unfold in the expanding and shrinking spaces of Mehmet & Kazim or in Tan Mu’s painterly homage to the chandelier-like beauty of golden quantum computers.
With the excellence cluster Munich Center of Quantum Science and Technology (MCQST) the ERES Foundation has gained a cooperation partner that provides scientific support for the project. An outstanding lecture programme offers insights into one of the world’s leading epicentres of modern quantum physics – Munich.
Welcome to the parallel world of crazy tiny units. Perhaps you will be floating on “Cloud Q” as well after visiting “Seeing the Unseen”?
Artists: Dara Birnbaum, Herbert W. Franke, Elsa Garmire, Ayoung Kim, Alicja Kwade, Roman Lipski, Jonas Lund, Mehmet & Kazim, Tan Mu, Semiconductor, Thomas Struth, Paul Talman, Tamiko Thiel, Troika, Agustina Woodgate, and others
TEST of Atmos Sphaerae as immersive projection space. Recorded at ONX Studio New York/Onassis Foundation.
Atmos Sphaerae at "Under the Radar" Festival, New York
Atmos Sphaerae combines mythic imagery with the poetic beauty of the „Lewis structures“ scientific notation to make visible the atomic composition of molecules in the atmosphere. It takes the viewer from the pre Big Bang VOID to the mythic cosmic egg, to the disc of proto-planetary gases out of which the Earth formed, to the life-giving water, to the mythic islands of Mother Earth, then to the photosynthesizing cyanobacteria that trigger the Great Oxygenation Event that created the conditions for life as we know it to arise on Earth, and finally ends in a runaway greenhouse triggered by humans‘ voracious appetite for fossil fuels.
Atmos Sphaerae was originally created for the DiMoDA 4.0: Dis/Location VR exhibition, curated by Christiane Paul. It premiered in 2021 at Gazelli Art House, London, as part of their gazell.io digital art program, and shown by them at ART Singapore 2025. Other exhibitions include at the ZKM Karlsruhe, SIGGRAPH Art Gallery 2025 (curated by Francesca Franco) and the 2023 Istanbul Digital Art Festival (IDAF), curated by Julie Walsh.
The work will be presented by Onassis ONX in the exhibition “TECHNE Homecoming at Onassis ONX” as an immersive three-screen installation in the new ONX space at 390 Broadway in Manhattan, as part of the Under the Radar Festival (UTR).