Albin Werle’s Rules for Participation

Albin Werle’s practice is shaped by participation, where images are not fixed objects but tools for exchange. His works unfold through use, inviting the viewer into situations where meaning is formed through action and shared experience.

In Werle’s work, the visual and the conceptual are tightly woven together, and the works are often accompanied by sets of rules that invite the viewer to become a participant, experiencing the work not only through the senses but through action and interaction.

In these interactive works, which function somewhere between games and fortune-telling, each piece changes through participation. Those who engage with the works encounter them both sensorially and socially, shaped by their own actions and by their exchanges with others. Werle’s visual language draws on traditions of practical magic, folklore, play, theatre, and divination, and relates to ideas of a post-video game world, where meaning is formed through interaction rather than representation alone.

For aaaa nordhavn’s presentation at Market Art Fair 2026, Albin Werle presents a series of works rooted in mystical Christian traditions and folkloric games and rituals. The presentation includes paintings and a sculpture accompanied by instructions, allowing the works to function in ways similar to Ouija boards or tarot cards. These image systems use chance and play to generate unexpected conversations and lines of thought.