The title SHELLS – that can literally be understood as protective, enclosing, or form-giving casings – refers here to both physical and metaphorical spaces: they can be empty or filled, permeable or armor-like, protective spaces or resonating chambers, projection surfaces or membrane-like connections to other spheres. With an interdisciplinary approach, the artists of the exhibition examine how shells function both as boundaries and as mediators: What is enclosed, what escapes? What remains hidden, what is revealed? Here, the concept of SHELLS becomes an open space for thought, one that refers not only to physical surfaces but also to metaphorical, digital, or sonic enclosures.