Artists

Thomas Struth, Leiko Ikemura, Stephan Balkenhol, Thomas Ruff, Maximilian Rödel, Thu-Van Tran

Press release

This theme-based exhibition focuses on various work cycles by Stephan Balkenhol, Leiko Ikemura, Maximilian Rödel, Thomas Ruff, Thomas Struth and Thu-Van Tran. The selected works from different media and art-historical traditions are united by a sensual approach to nature that is capable of illuminating its transformative potential, reflecting its inherent cyclicality as a fundamental principle of our tangible world or illuminating/deconstructing facets of its characterization as an archetypal place of longing and refuge. In an efficiency- and speed-optimized, technoid society, however, nature is also increasingly exposed to interference and processes of change through the Anthropocene and the perception of nature as an exploitable resource; a complex ambivalence that is also subtly revealed in the exhibition.