Kunstraum Memphis presents a solo exhibition by Geneva-based artist Hunter Longe, whose sculptural works and in-situ installations explore the perception and compression of various temporal scales, as well as the notion of offerings—whether destined for or originating from the past or the dead. Several of the artworks incorporate stone fragments from the prehistoric immolation site of Goldbichl, Austria, where centuries of sacrificial burning caused animal remains to fuse with rock, forming new mineral species. Alongside these curiously charged stones is a series of heavily eroded gypsum sculptures that the artist describes as “dissolving relics of an evaporated sea.” Carefully modulated light and undulating sound bathe these bodies of work, creating an ambient atmosphere that lends itself to a potential slippage in time.
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The exhibition features a text by artist, translator, and writer Luzie Meyer and a performance by fellow Geneva-based artist Basile Dinbergs that will take place during the opening. In both the text and the performance, objects in the exhibition function as clues and indices pointing toward alternate narratives that question consensus reality.

Hunter Longe is originally from California (b. 1985). Recent solo and group exhibitions have been at Salts, Basel (2025); MACRO Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome (2025); Lateral, Rome (2025); Centre d’art de Neuchâtel (2024); Soft Opening, London (2024); 427, Riga (2024); Kunsthaus Langenthal (2023); Last Tango, Zurich (2023); Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève (2021); Et al. Gallery, San Francisco (2018); LambdaLambdaLambda, Pristina (2017); Hordaland Kunstsenter, Bergen (2017).

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The exhibition was realised with the kind support of Pro Helvetia, Swiss Arts Council.
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‍Hunter Longe
Luzie Meyer
Basile Dinbergs