Borrowing its title from an Athenian neighborhood, NEOΣ KOΣMOΣ ("New World") explores the fragile, often absurd nature of how we construct and perceive the world.

Wendelin Pressl presents poetic machines, failed world models, and playful pseudo-scientific experiments—objects that blur the line between art and science. Ten participatory sculptures serve as chapters in a surreal journey through imagined systems, fake planets, optical illusions, and philosophical detours. Alongside these works, a fictional-scientific correspondence between the artist and physicist Leonhard Horstmeyer opens up new dimensions of thought. A book about seeing, doubting, inventing—and getting lost in the beautiful uncertainty of a world always in the making.