Artworks from the Middle Ages to the present illustrate the complex connection between human beings and their environment. From loving care to exploitation, from menace to fascination, the relationship between people and nature is an ever-present topic—and was of existential importance long before the life-threatening consequences of global warming and pollution we are faced with today.

Artwork by Karl Aigen, Alessandro Araldi, Betty Beier, Joseph Beuys and Nicolás García Uriburu, Joseph Beuys and Jonas Hafner, Albert Bierstadt, P. Dominik Bilimek OCist, Catrin Bolt, Günter Brus and Arnulf Rainer, Maria Bussmann, Carolina Caycedo and Jonathan Luna, Olivia Coeln, Regula Dettwiler, Mark Dion, Caspar David Friedrich, Nilbar Güres, Maria Hahnenkamp, Christine and Irene Hohenbüchler, John Hilliard, Jenny Kendler, Mathias Kessler, Estefanía Peñafiel Loaiza, Alessandro Magnasco, Julie Monaco, Muntean & Rosenblum, Michèle Pagel, Bonaventura Peeters, Oliver Ressler, Dieter Roth, Marzellin Stoppel, Antoni Tàpies, Shonah Trescott, Timm Ulrichs, Lois Weinberger, Sharon Ya’ari, and historic artists whose names have not been handed down.

Curator: Johanna Schwanberg

Co-Curator: Klaus Speidel