The impulse-giving artwork 2021 “Nuqta- the beginning” was developed by the Japanese installation artist Chiharu Shiota, one of the most important and internationally renowned installation artists of the present, the musician Jeremias Schwarzer and the concert designer Folkert Uhde as a hybrid space of perception between art exhibition and concert. “Nuqta” in Arabic calligraphy refers to the starting point where the pen is placed on the paper and thus where every character begins and all creativity takes its start. The installation will feature works by Birke Bertelsmeier, Karlheinz Essl, Raquel Garcia Tomás, Annelies van Parys, Liza Lim, Michelle Anne Magalhaes, Salvatore Sciarrino, Samir Odeh-Tamimi, Enno Poppe and others, as well as a specially developed electronic composition by Vincent Stange.