Ausstellung "SOLASTALGIE. Spaziergänge durch veränderte Landschaften"

In the organizer's words:

Between idyll and change: landscape images in a historical and contemporary context

Landscapes are subject to constant change - a process that is particularly visible and often destructive in the age of climate change. Can landscapes be beautiful and endangered at the same time? The exhibition focuses on this ambivalence and questions our divided relationship to the environment. Historical landscape paintings meet contemporary positions that reflect vulnerability, comfort and hope in nature. The concept of solastalgia, coined in 2005 by the Australian philosopher Glenn Albrecht, describes the feeling of grief over a threatened landscape - and at the same time the longing for comfort and connection.

Historical and contemporary perspectives in dialog

The exhibition combines historical landscape paintings from the GIERSCH Collection with contemporary works that deal with current issues of the environment and landscape change: from urban wasteland to environmental pollution and personal encounters with nature. Seven contemporary artists open up new perspectives on the field of tension between aesthetics, change and hope. Solastalgia thus becomes a sensual walk through time, media and perspectives - an experience of landscape as changeable, fragile and connecting.

Visual axes, audio stations and mediation formats combine art with scientific perspectives. The exhibition invites visitors to relate to nature as a simultaneously beautiful and fragile counterpart.

Participating artists and scientists:

Andrea Acosta, Robert Anton, Ei Arakawa-Nash, Ferdinand Brütt, Anton Burger, Phillipp Franck, Ilana Halperin, Nelson Gray Kinsley, Marcus Maeder, Carl Morgenstern, Jakob Nussbaum, Jörg Oehlmann, Alfred Nathaniel Oppenheim, Daniela Ortiz dos Santos, Anton Radl, Asad Raza, Antje Schlottmann, Sascha Staubach, Wilhelm Trübner, Unknown Fields, Tatiana Vdovenko, Fritz Wucherer and many more.

Price information:

Future ticket - discount for sustainable travel Are you traveling by public transport, bicycle or on foot? Then you will receive reduced admission to the MGGU! The Zukunftsticket is an environmentally friendly initiative: the discount can be granted at the ticket office by simply stating how you have traveled.