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 Weltmuseum, 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 this spring in Vienna, 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.
Nobody Told Me Rivers Dream (2025), first shown at London’s Design Museum, imagines an alternative path: one where technology fosters ecological awakening. Speculative handmade sensor-objects observe birdsong, tides, and skies. Combining these observations with an AI trained on weather lore, folklore, and Indigenous wisdom, they invite us to deepen our attention and let the river become our teacher. Here, Superflux brings Craftocene values into the present, challenging AI’s extractive logic and proposing a shift toward craft, ingenuity, ecological attunement, and reciprocity.
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.
