Life Beat Soft Melt/Digital Twin Edition
Ludwig Museum Koblenz x Walter's Cube
Erwin Wurm: Life Beat Soft Melt/Digital Twin Edition opens December 19. The first exhibition to digitize visitor interactions as sculptural acts.
What happens when a physical exhibition refuses to close? Erwin Wurm's Life Beat Soft Melt, originally presented at Ludwig Museum Koblenz from September 5 to November 23, 2025, continues as a fully walkable digital twin—a real-time, multi-user 3D environment accessible 24/7 from anywhere in the world.
Curated by Beate Reifenscheid and Jérôme Sans, the exhibition transformed the museum into what Sans describes as a “physical metaverse”: Wurm's monumental Flat Sculptures turned walls and ceilings into immersive painted architecture, where distorted words—life, beat, soft, melt—resolve only through bodily movement. When the physical show closed, the curators proposed a question: why let this experiment end? In collaboration with Walter's Cube, the exhibition now migrates into digital space—not as documentation, but as a new chapter where sculpture, interaction, and architecture converge online.
Beyond 360 degree panoramas: a living exhibition space
This is not the virtual tour that you think of. Developed using advanced 3D scanning technologies, the digital twin preserves both floors of the museum as a walkable environment where visitors can move freely, encounter works from multiple perspectives, and experience the exhibition's core phenomenology: how meaning emerges through orientation, time, distance, and shifting viewpoints. Available on mobile and desktop, the space functions as a continuously accessible public sphere—hosting visitors from different time zones simultaneously in real time.
Meta sculptures: the first digitized performance archive
The project’s defining innovation lies in how it treats Wurm’s iconic One Minute Sculptures—participatory works that redefined sculpture as instruction and social encounter. During the physical exhibition, visitors who activated these works were captured using motion-scanning technology. Their interactions now exist within the digital twin as avatar-based “meta sculptures”: moving bodies you can walk around, observe from multiple angles, and experience as spatial events rather than fixed video documentation. For the first time in art history, an exhibition has digitized not just objects, but the acts of participation that activate them.
Meet Walter: your AI art mediator
Embedded in the digital twin is Walter, an AI Art Mediator developed by Walter's Cube and launched with Life Beat Soft Melt. Trained on thousands of exhibitions, Walter understands spatial relationships, physics, and artistic contexts—offering personalized tours, multilingual explanations, and real-time conversation as you walk in the show.
Every ticket includes your own Walter. Ask questions. Request thematic tours. Discuss Wurm’s practice. Walter adapts to your curiosity.
Crucially, Walter is available to museums, curators, and galleries worldwide. Without any tech skills, art professionals can train Walter by providing texts, catalogues, or curatorial materials—instantly transforming their shows into accessible, interactive digital experiences. Walter's Cube offers this as a scalable solution for museums, galleries, universities, and biennials seeking to expand their reach and make contemporary art more understandable globally.
Opening events
Online press conference: December 18, 2025
6pm Paris / 12pmNew York / 9am Los Angeles / 10:30pm Mumbai. Join Erwin Wurm, Prof. Dr. Beate Reifenscheid, Jérôme Sans, and Walter inside the digital twin for a live conversation about the exhibition and the future of digitized art experiences. Press registration: walter@walterscube.com or here.
VIP public opening: December 19, 2025
4pm Paris / 10am New York / 7am Los Angeles / 8:30pm Mumbai. Early bird VIP tickets available now here. Every visitor receives one month of access and personalized guidance from Walter.
Tickets
Standard: 7 EUR / Student: 1 EUR. One month unlimited access included. Complimentary tickets available for museum directors and nonprofit leaders upon request.
Visit the exhibition here. For institutions interested in Walter's Cube’s digitization services and AI mediation: walter@walterscube.com.
Exhibition credits
Erwin Wurm: Life Beat Soft Melt, Ludwig Museum Koblenz, curated by Prof. Dr. Beate Reifenscheid and Jérôme Sans. Digital Twin Edition and AI Art Mediation: Walter’s Cube.
