For a project-based exhibition Johannes Langkamp created one kinetic experiment per day. Using small wind-up mechanisms, that he custom-modified for this project, he explored playful studies in movement, perception and space on site — with the exhibition space functioning as an open studio for two weeks.

Fourteen small sculptures gradually evolved across the wall, each a fragment of Langkamp’s ongoing search for wonder. Some pieces take shape through simple patterns in materials like paper, while others reuse found objects — café-toothpicks turned into a spiky ‘bitterbal’, a sponge rotating on a plank, or a paint roller spinning in place.

“This series is an attempt to thematize the act of searching — searching for the unknown,” Langkamp says. The work is part of his broader practice, in which the process itself becomes the artwork. By putting ‘making’ — with all its failures and chance discoveries — center stage, he invites viewers to follow along as the works takes shape.

This project originated at KEVN (Kelderman en Van Noort) in Eindhoven, supported by CBK Rotterdam and the Mondriaan Fund.