Moritz Jekat visual artist

Orchestrating Empathy

Kang Contemporary, Berlin – November 23, 2024 to February 21, 2025

Amid the sensory overload of today’s world—where overloaded information, sleeplessness, and emotional numbness dominate—the group exhibition Orchestrating Empathy invites a radical recalibration of inner sensitivity. Artists Annette Cords, Vemo Hang, and Moritz Jekat each bring their own creative strategies for coping with this ambiguity, crafting spaces that foster empathy and emotional attunement.

Within this context, Moritz Jekat contributes Theory of Constructed Emotions, a sculptural and conceptual meditation on how emotions aren’t preset or hardwired—but constructed. Drawing on psychological and affective-science theories, the work considers how emotions are shaped by experience, culture, social background, and the digital milieu that now envelops everyday life

Jekat’s pieces reflect on how digital technologies aren’t just tools—they’re sensory and emotional milieus, molding how people today feel and perceive the world in ways fundamentally different from previous generations. The installation prompts viewers to recognize that our emotional landscapes are reconfigured by digital connectivity, cultural conditioning, and the environments we inhabit.