Things That Were Are Things Again: Präsentation digitale Publikation

What do art museums have to do with climate change? Do they need to radically transform the way they work? The publication Things That Were Are Things Again accompanies the GfZK's collection exhibition of the same name. This is the first time we have attempted to produce a climate-neutral exhibition. The curators and designers of the exhibition reflect on the two-year work process in which they tested resource-saving and climate-friendly strategies and dealt with climate change from different perspectives. 24 artistic positions, mostly from the museum's collection as well as several new productions, examine technological, political, economic and cultural aspects of climate change. How sustainable can plastic be? Have the "tropics" always been the future? Can the principles of permaculture be applied to artistic activity?

With works by Lara Almarcegui, Lars Bergmann, Kent Chan, Céline Condorelli, Katarína Dubovská, Ólafur Elíasson, Till Exit, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Andrea Garcia Vasquez, Elizabeth Gerdeman, Interspecies Society, Christine Hill, Johanna Kandl, Inga Kerber, Imi Knoebel, Hanne Lippard, Muntean/Rosenblum, Olaf Nicolai, Dan Peterman, Maren Roloff, Christoph Schäfer, Sean Snyder, Sarah Sze, Auke de Vries

Katharina Köhler, designer, and Julia Eckert, co-editor, present the digital publication.

Katharina Köhler works at the intersection of type, typography and graphic design. In her collaborative practice, she deals with structural and social conditions as well as ecological challenges. Her voluntary activities include the reorientation of the open book society e.V. Since 2015, she has been teaching at various universities and is part of the Camelot Typefaces collective.

The publication is published by EECLECTIC