Superflux present their first major solo show at the Weltmuseum in Vienna.

Superflux is excited to announce the opening of a new solo exhibition at Weltmuseum Vienna. Entitled “The Craftocene,” the show unfolds across three rooms, bringing together three major works for the first time: the multispecies banquet Refuge for Resurgence (2021), ongoing explorations into river intelligence Nobody Told Me Rivers Dream (2025), and a new commission for the Weltmuseum, titled Relics of Abundance (2026).

Displayed alongside artefacts from the museum’s collection, these works reflect five years of studio research into the complex, interconnected challenges of our time, positioning ecological reconciliation as a condition for societal transformation, and the irreducible intelligence of the living world as a source of hope. The work is also part of the prestigious Klima Biennale, opening on April 9 2026.

The first room, Refuge for Resurgence (2021), imagines a time shaped by a reckoning with a hubristic past and the precarious climate it has produced. This takes the form of a multispecies banquet, where humans, animals, and plants gather to find new ways of living. First exhibited at the Venice Biennale of Architecture in 2021, the installation invites reflection on how we might learn to live with and within the natural world.

Leading from this central room, each adjoining space offers a different possibility. Relics of Abundance (2026), newly created for Weltmuseum Vienna, envisions our descendants sifting through the remains of our civilisation. Objects of consumer culture, from the omnipresent sneaker and smartphone to the aspirational Corbusier chair, are misremembered as devotional relics that uncover the mythological dimensions of our current age of abundance. Playful in execution yet serious about the repercussions of runaway consumption, the installation takes the form of a ceremonial space, highlighting our beliefs and the sacrifices they demand.

“The Craftocene is our chance to imagine different ways of being, the writing of a collective myth that we shape together. As we attempt to plot a path beyond the waste of the Anthropocene, this kind of endeavour has never been more urgent.”

– Anab Jain and Jon Ardern, co-founders of Superflux

Alongside these installations, Superflux is curating a selection of objects from Weltmuseum’s collection: a river deity from the Ganges, a woven replica of a kerosene stove, sandals made from rubber tyres. Displayed throughout the exhibition, these artefacts interweave and reflect universal themes of spirituality, ecological intelligence, and societal fragmentation. Through juxtaposition with the studio’s speculative works, visitors are invited to reassess these objects’ stories and the lives of those who crafted them. Time, culture, and geography collapse, creating space for new, object-based spiritual practices and renewed relationships with the more-than-human world.

“Superflux, with their unique artistic approach, offer a way of thinking and creating that aligns remarkably well with the complexities of an ethnological museum. Their capacity to reactivate and reframe cultural materials through imaginative, critical, and multisensory narratives makes their work a compelling fit for the Weltmuseum Wien. For this reason, I invited Superflux to develop this exhibition, enabling a fresh and thought-provoking encounter with our collections and the stories they hold.”

– Claudia Banz, Director of Weltmuseum Vienna

Credits

Director General 
Jonathan Fine

Director Weltmuseum Wien 
Claudia Banz

Superflux Team
Jon Ardern
Anab Jain
Tracky Crombie
Ed Lewis
Matthew Edgson
Mon Cano
Jaxon Stickler
Lara Ferris
Carmen Pop-Tiron
Hanna Sarsa
Soham Chandrachud

Superflux Collaborators
James Bulley
Caroline Chouler-Tissier
Inés Miño Izquierdo
Bettina Zironi
Syed Mash

Exhibition management
Julia Neudorfer

Exhibition design
Superflux

Graphic Design
Polytechnic

Special thanks to
Assemble
Can of Gas
Makerversity
Lisa Aoyama
Leo Mühlfeld
Shaz Duncan

Lenders
The Barbican Centre, London

Images