Landschaft?!

In the organizer's words:

Albrecht/Wilke (Tim Albrecht born 1992 in Berlin / Hannes Wilke born 1991 in Stade, live and work in Berlin), José Gomes (born 1968 in Cariacica, Brazil, lives and works in Cologne), Daniel Müller Jansen (born 1978 in Düren, lives and works in Cologne), Catherine Seher (born 1958 in Paris, lives and works in Paris), Hideaki Yamanobe (born 1964 in Tokyo, lives and works in Cologne, Düsseldorf and Tokyo)

Landscapes: abstract, ironic, classical, critical, political, black and white, deserted, populated...

The perception of landscape is a complex issue that is influenced by individual, cultural and social factors.

How do we perceive landscape - as genuine, untouched nature? Or rather as a truly composed reality or perhaps even as a dream world? What can and should landscape do for us today? And what ideas do we have about its future?

The exhibition Landscape?! brings romantic wishes and feelings into dialogue with the demands of a modern, globalized world and its rules. Landscape has always undergone great change, shaped by social, ideological and technical developments.

As an artistic representation, landscape has also always been a reflection of the respective discussions about nature and its significance for mankind. With the rapid virtualization of our world, our relationship to the environment has changed. Since it has become digitally navigable, calculable and manipulable in every conceivable way, designed and built landscapes act like a catalog full of interpretations of nature, society, economy and culture.

The six artists in the exhibition have developed different approaches to deal with this complex topic.