SUPERFLEX: Rainbows, Sponges, Flies, and Spoons

The MAK Center for Art and Architecture is pleased to present _Rainbows, Sponges, Flies, and Spoons_, an exhibition by the Danish artist collective SUPERFLEX. The exhibition brings together a focused presentation of works spanning more than three decades of the collective’s practice at the MAK Center at the Schindler House. Designed by Austrian-American architect R.M. Schindler in 1922 as a multi-family dwelling, an experiment in communal living, the Schindler House was designed to accommodate collective daily life as well as personalized areas for individual activity. Playing off this history, _Rainbows, Sponges, Flies, and Spoons_ presents four works, each occupying its own space, completely separate yet strangely connected. _The Spoons_ (1994), an early photographic lightbox depicting a circular arrangement of spoons; _Hunga Tonga Rainbow_ (2016), presenting two photographs in which a rainbow is mirrored, creating a sense of artificial symmetry, a false whole; _Proposal for the World’s Second-Tallest Building_, a sculptural installation composed of ceramic sponge as a proposal for a new form of architecture; and _Two Flies Staring at Each Other (on a Glass of Water)_ (2025), a meticulously fabricated sculptural vignette arranged in a perfect formation that would be nearly impossible to find in nature. Through subtle manipulations of familiar objects and images, the works produce moments of humor and estrangement while exploring questions of infrastructure, ecological interdependence, and collective perception. Organized by Beth Stryker, MAK Center Director + Curator with Susan Sherrick, and support from Caroline Ellen Liou, MAK Center Residency Manager + Associate Curator.