EARTH MATTERS at Bergson: guided tour with Olaf Otto Becker and the curators
Photographer Olaf Otto Becker and curator Alexander Timtschenko cordially invite you to a guided tour of the current group exhibition EARTH MATTERS. The focus of this tour is particularly on Becker's photographic works, which document the beauty of untouched nature.
Timchenko and Becker will allow you to experience the artworks on display from two fundamentally different perspectives: on the one hand, through the photographer's personal view of the material and creative process, and on the other, through the curatorial view of the exhibition narrative, tradition and contemporary art practice. The result is a multi-layered dialog that makes the impressive works accessible to you in all their depth.
After the tour, the curator looks forward to welcoming you to the Zeitlang bar or restaurant together with Olaf Otto Becker for further discussion and exchange. In good weather, an area on the restaurant terrace is reserved. In bad weather, we will meet in the atrium.
About the exhibition
EARTH MATTERS invites you on an interdisciplinary journey through the natural sciences and sheds light on the fragile interplay between humans, nature and technology. Using artistic means - sometimes analytical, sometimes poetic - it calls for a conscious approach to the earth as a living being.
On display are works by five artists whose approaches appeal to and activate our senses in a variety of ways. They are dedicated to central questions of our time: the consequences of industrialization, the human striving for optimization and the unforeseeable consequences of technological developments. The focus is on ecological systems, technical artifacts and hidden biological life forms of unimagined beauty - and their potential to create positive change and have a global impact, either independently of humans or together with them.
Using images, sculptures, photographic works, videos and spatial installations, EARTH MATTERS uses immersive and impressive works to examine and reflect on what both nature and our civilization have created on Earth.
In dialog with visitors, the exhibition aims to address the following questions, among others: Where are we today - and where do we want to develop? How can we treat our planet responsibly? And finally: How much influence and freedom do humans have in a world that is increasingly shaped by autonomous technological forces?
Admission and tickets
Meeting point and start: 6:45 pm
End: 7:45 pm
Conclusion in the Zeitlang bar or restaurant with photographer Olaf Otto Becker and curator Alexander Timtschenko
Admission is free of charge.