Opening Let the "Buntes Garten Ciao" begin!

Techno-aesthetic tarot cards by Suzanne Treister, read by Sarah Martinus within Ancestral Ritual with Holden Madagame, and karaoke

When:
Thu, April 23, 2026, 6pm–10pm

Free admission

Meeting point:
Lenbachhaus Garden (in the foyer in case of bad weather)

When:
Thu, April 23, 2026, 6pm–10pm

Free admission

Meeting point:
Lenbachhaus Garden (in the foyer in case of bad weather)

With “Buntes Garten Ciao”, the Lenbachhaus takes the art into the garden, onto the forecourt, and into the surrounding area, creating encounters through art. The opening of this summer project takes place with a vision for the future: During a collective card-reading session using the Tarot Hexen 5.0 by Suzanne Treister, read by Sarah Martinus, within Ancestral Ritual accompanied by Holden Madagame, we will discuss topics such as cyberfeminism, science fiction, ecosystems, the climate crisis, and terrestrial and interplanetary technologies. While the artistic tarot suggests various solutions, we’ll discuss how we’d like to live together in the future.

Supporting Spiritual Abolitionist Ceremony created by Sarah Martinus and Holden Magadame through electroacoustic sound, ritual, poetics and action. 

Welcome Karaoke:
Afterward, we’ll sing to celebrate the opening—with you! We’ll provide some drinks, chilled or warm depending on the weather, and warm up our vocal cords. 

FAQ and Rules

Karaoke is fun, even for those who usually avoid it
There is a media screen, two speakers, and two microphones
The “first-to-sing” rule applies: those who haven’t sung yet get priority. This also applies to songs 

With contributions by 

Opening remarks: Julia Schönfeld-Knor, Member of the Munich City Council representing the Lord Mayor
Presentation of the program series: Samira Yildirim, Curator of the event series
Art-historical insights on tarot cards: Sarah Sigmund, Researcher at the Research Center for Technoaesthetics at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich
Ritual and Tarot Card Session: Sarah Martinus, artist and spiritualist with Holden Madagame

Part of the series: Academy meets Lenbachhaus, in cooperation with the Center for Technoaesthetics at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich

Biography:

Sārāh Mārtinus (she/they) is a research-informed artist and ancestral lineage healer, visioning in re-member-ship of relational kinship practice, mediating modern system-machine, xenoscene, and transpersonal realm. Her interdisciplinary ritual practice operates through processual, decentralised meaning-making, stretching towards inclusive bodies of pluriversality, viscerality, and the sensuous. Sarah holds a participatory collective reading with Suzanne Treister’s Hexen 5.0, as generative future(s) template for liberation-based, post-digital ritual. Sarah came into being on unceded lands of the Wurundjeri People of Woiwurrung language group, in Kulin Nation; the Traditional Custodians of Naarm/Melbourne, Australia, as descendant of Sri Lankan diaspora and Irish settlers.

Holden Madagame (ma-DA-ga-mii) (he/they) is a proud Odawa indigenous, queer, trans, research based performer, classically trained vocalist and ancestral practitioner. Holden’s recent research work in residencies at Hogfish Maine (2024), Uferstudios Berlin (2025) has focused on anger, ancestral trauma, indigeneity and somatic experience of embodied voice. With Hexen 5.0, Holden is invited in, accompanied through water wisdoms of Nishinaabekwe Elders (Edna Manitowabi), to support energetic transmutation of cybernetic tricksters; sensual technologies.

Sarah Sigmund is an art historian and curator. She works as a research assistant at the Research Center for Technoaesthetics at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. In 2025, she completed her dissertation on the topic “Hybridizations. Transformations of the Human in Art from the 1920s to the Present" at the University of Hamburg and is currently working on its publication (to be released in 2026, edition metzel). As a curator, she most recently organized the exhibition Gegenwarten I Presences. Kunst Stadt Chemnitz and is the author and co-editor of the publication of the same name (2020, Verlag für moderne Kunst).