Here at the Dresden Residenzschloss (Royal Palace) lie the roots of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden. Over the past 500 years and starting from the Münzsammlung, the Rüstkammer, and the Kunstkammer, one of the world’s most important museum complexes has grown. Since the end of 2023, this important repository of knowledge and art has been supplemented by the "Kunstkammer Gegenwart", which changes every year. It is an archive of the present, an energy center of contemporary art, featuring works from the Schenkung Sammlung Hoffmann, but also from the Albertinum, the Kunstfonds, and the Kupferstich-Kabinett.

Every fall, the "Kunstkammer Contemporary" is completely reconfigured, using a keyword as the throughline that determines the selection of works from the prodigious holdings of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden. For the current presentation – the second "Kunstkammer Contemporary" – the keyword is "human," an adjective with multiple meanings. Here, attention to what is "human" also invites the question of how the "inhuman" may be defined, not only in the sense of the monstrous, but also, for example, in the sense of the divine or the artificial.