Gathering is pleased to announce AD, a solo exhibition by Seffa Klein opening on 6 Jun in Cologne. Marking the artist’s German debut, the exhibition will present a new body of work created this past spring during Klein’s stay in Ibiza.

Klein’s multifaceted practice is centred within ontology, and investigates how our personal and social structures of meaning, power, value and perception are built and sustained. Interested in weaving concepts from the molecular to astronomical, the artist uses elemental metals and alchemic processes to highlight hidden structures and opportunities for transformation towards more symbiotic relationships with the self, the planet and each other.

Crude, ready-made wood planks, the immaterial touch of fire and the cosmic nature of bismuth metal definitively comprise the three central elements of this exhibition. Yet AD, the title of the exhibition invites many possible interpretations: Anno Domini (the Western calendar’s sacred zero, opening up a chrono-political discourse on the colonisation of time), ad (Latin for “toward”) and even advertisement - reflecting Klein’s interest in codifying systems of meaning for new ways of being. Conceived as a transmuted building site, AD focuses on utilising standard building materials as a metaphor for the implicit structures that make up our reality.

Through fire, the planks are transformed into charcoal, which Klein then uses to draw circular echoes across the walls of the space. Part diagram, part recording, these works bring the structures typically hidden inside walls directly onto their surface. The installation, Wave (Lumber for Sale) (2025), is made up of multiple planks stacked in formation, inlaid with bismuth, creating a luminous line which is produced with a controlled oxidation process. Each plank is a singular unit - burned, routed, embedded with elemental metal - yet collectively they read as a frozen wave: a rhythm of potential in suspended motion.