Entertainment or calamity, fiction or reality, in the end the bland aftertaste of situations that are not unknown to us, where the boundaries become obscure and the helm runs out of hand, where we no longer understand the rules and are only absorbed, doomed to smile in embarrassment. Bjørn Melhus' more recent installations go beyond the media and intervene in real space. Starting from a 40 m long barrel-vaulted exhibition room in Magdeburg, a large-format media installation will be created. The exhibition space becomes a social space that will integrate the viewer.

Few artists have analysed the psychology of our television and media age as deeply in their work, the idea of constant role transformations as Bjørn Melhus. Few understand how to derive the symptoms of this present from oneself as an actor and person affected in such a subjective and bizarre way as is generally applicable.