A transformer station is a facility for converting electrical energy from one voltage level to another. It is an important component of an area's power supply.
Artists also perform a transformation with their work. They perceive social trends and translate them. This is an important part of the discourse supply of society.
The exhibition TRAFO presents a snapshot of artistic positions that come together for a few days to form a community. The compilation of works, each of which represents a transformation of information, energy and meaning, is a temporary transformer station in an exhibition setting. The works enter into tension with one another.
As our society moves towards a paradigm shift that will fundamentally change our social, economic, ecological and psychological situation in the long term, this exhibition can be read as a reflection of the mood surrounding this change.

Offside Signal is a test tone ringing out in the periphery. During a one-night performance event and a one-day exhibition viewers get to manipulate flowing, microscopic elements of an art installation, experience performances, painting and video.

Offside Signal gives the chance to experience a place truly on the offside. Some of the performances will work with the possibilities and confines of the vast halls of the Sugar Factory, and a few open studios showcase ongoing artistic processes.

Since last year I have been collaborating with my dear brother Thomas Westphal. In July 2025 we were invited to join Imagining Godzilla, a platform for short term, semi-residential art-research projects onboard the sailing catamaran Godzilla, on its way along the Baltic Coast. We brought with us an experimental plankton net we called the Mazu, after the famous sea deity whom we encountered in Taiwan last year. The Mazu is composed of a series of daisy chained chambers made of gaze of decreasing mesh sizes. Debris, particles and microorganisms larger than the specific mesh of a chamber are filtered into a sample jar, the remaining water flows into the next chamber and so on. The shape and anatomy of the Mazu is reminiscent of a translucent filter feeding deep sea worm that is able to digest and process sea water. We collected samples in the swampy harbor area of Peenemünde, Germany, by towing the Mazu with a rowing dinghy. You can see some documentation here, with footage of the individual samples coming in the near future.