RESTLESS
“RESTLESS” is a solo exhibition bringing together a series of video and installation works developed between 2024 and 2026. Across the exhibition, machines, roots, electrical fragments, repetitive gestures, and broken objects begin to shift between stillness and animation, appearing as unstable forms suspended between object and living body.
Through movement, rhythm, repetition, and transformation, the works explore the restless potential of matter and the emotional charge carried by fragments, ruins, and mechanical remains. Bulldozers emerge from the sea, roots move like fragile bodies, and assembled creatures form themselves from damaged technological parts and discarded materials. Across the space, movement becomes both a force of construction and collapse.
The exhibition brings together the works “Ruinborn,” “Bulldozer,” “M’ata – The Plucker,” and “Dance of the Dying Roots,” presented through video, installation, and sculptural environments. Together, the works create a shifting landscape where material memory, destruction, displacement, and transformation continuously interact.
Exhibited at the Barn of Akademie Schloss Solitude, 2026
Imprints
»RESTLESS«
Hiba G. Isleem
Exhibition: April 28 – May 3, 2026
Location: Barn/Scheune, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart
Works:
Ruinborn
M’ata (The Plucker)
Bulldozer
Dance of the Dying Roots
Exhibition Structure: Helmut Dietz
Technical Support: Eva Dörr, Ivan Syrov
All works by Hiba G. Isleem
Press / Media
ARD Kultur Aktuell, Germany, 2026
Radio feature discussing RESTLESS and its exploration of movement, destruction, and material transformation.







