OPENING Poetics of Nature

In the organizer's words:

The group exhibition Poetics of Nature focuses on various work cycles by Stephan Balkenhol, Leiko Ikemura, Maximilian Rödel, Thomas Ruff, Thomas Struth and Thu-Van Tran. Through diverse media and art historical traditions, the selected works converge in their sensory approach to nature. They illuminate nature's transformative potential to reflect its inherent cyclicality as fundamental principle in our experienced world, re- and deconstructing nature's character facets as an archetypal place of longing and refuge. Yet in an efficiency- and speed-driven, technoid society, nature is also increasingly exposed to interference and processes of change through the Anthropocene and the view of nature as an exploitable resource; a complex ambivalence that is also subtly made visible in the exhibition.