Future exhibition
ERWIN WURM – LIFE BEAT SOFT MELT – Digital Twin Edition
19.12.2025 – 31.12.2026
ERWIN WURM – LIFE BEAT SOFT MELT – Digital Twin Edition
Opens December 19th 2025!
The First Exhibition to Digitize Visitor Interactions as Sculptural Acts
What happens when a physical exhibition refuses to close? Erwin Wurm’s Life Beat Soft Melt, originally presented at Ludwig Museum Koblenz from September 5 to November 23, 2025, continues as a fully walkable digital twin – a real-time, multi-user 3D environment accessible 24/7 from anywhere in the world.
Curated by Beate Reifenscheid and Jérôme Sans, the exhibition transformed the museum into what Sans describes as a “physical metaverse”: Wurm’s monumental Flat Sculptures turned walls and ceilings into immersive painted architecture, where distorted words – LIFE, BEAT, SOFT, MELT – resolve only through bodily movement. When the physical show closed, Sans and Reifenscheid proposed a question: why let this experiment end? In collaboration with Walter’s Cube, the exhibition now migrates into digital space – not as documentation, but as a new chapter where sculpture, interaction, and architecture converge online.
Beyond 360° Panoramas: A Living Exhibition Space
This is not the virtual tour that you think of. Developed using advanced 3D scanning technologies, the digital twin preserves both floors of the museum as a walkable environment where visitors can move freely, encounter works from multiple perspectives, and experience the exhibition’s core phenomenology: how meaning emerges through orientation, time, distance, and shifting viewpoints. Available on mobile and desktop, the space functions as a continuously accessible public sphere – hosting visitors from different time zones simultaneously in real time.
Meta Sculptures: The First Digitized Performance Archive
The project’s defining innovation lies in how it treats Wurm’s iconic One Minute Sculptures – participatory works that redefined sculpture as instruction and social encounter. During the physical exhibition, visitors who activated these works were captured using motion-scanning technology. Their interactions now exist within the digital twin as avatar-based “meta sculptures”: moving bodies you can walk around, observe from multiple angles, and experience as spatial events rather than fixed video documentation. For the first time in art history, an exhibition has digitized not just objects, but the acts of participation that activate them.
Meet Walter: Your AI Art Mediator
Embedded in the digital twin is Walter, an AI Art Mediator developed by Walter’s Cube and launched with Life Beat Soft Melt. Trained on thousands of exhibitions, Walter understands spatial relationships, physics, and artistic contexts – offering personalized tours, multilingual explanations, and real-time conversation as you walk in the show.
Every ticket includes your own Walter. Ask questions. Request thematic tours. Discuss Wurm’s practice. Walter adapts to your curiosity.
Crucially, Walter is available to museums, curators, and galleries worldwide. Without any tech skills, art professionals can train Walter by providing texts, catalogues, or curatorial materials – instantly transforming their shows into accessible, interactive digital experiences. Walter’s Cube offers this as a scalable solution for museums, galleries, universities, and biennials seeking to expand their reach and make contemporary art more understandable globally.
Opening Events:
Online Press Conference
18. Dezember 2025, 18:00 Uhr Paris / 12:00 Uhr New York / 9:00 Uhr Los Angeles
Join Erwin Wurm, Beate Reifenscheid, Jérôme Sans, and Walter inside the digital twin for a live conversation about the exhibition and the future of digitized art experiences.
Press registration: walter@walterscube.com or via https://press.ludwig.onlineviewingroom.com/
VIP Public Opening:
December 19, 2025, 4:00 PM Paris / 10:00 AM New York / 7:00 AM Los Angeles
Early bird VIP tickets available now at https://wurm.ludwig.onlineviewingroom.com/. Every visitor receives one month of access and personalized guidance from Walter.
Tickets:
Standard: 7 € | Student: 1 €
One month unlimited access included.
Visit the exhibition:
https://wurm.ludwig.onlineviewingroom.com/
Eine Kooperation/ KI-Mediation mit Walter’s Cube: walter@walterscube.com
Exhibition credits
Erwin Wurm: Life Beat Soft Melt
Ludwig Museum Koblenz
Kuratiert von Prof. Dr. Beate Reifenscheid und Jérôme Sans
Digital Twin Edition und AI Art Mediation: Walter’s Cube
Erwin Wurm: Life Beat Soft Melt (Flat Sculpture), Ansicht der Installation im Erdgeschoss des Museums, 2025 © Erwin Wurm, Bild-Kunst Bonn 2025. Foto: Thomas Frey