NO TALKING FOR SEVEN DAYS

In the twentieth century, the idea of landscape has become more tense. We know that we can no longer ignore the reality of climate change, - the earth, and our relation to it, seems to be ever changing before our eyes.

Under the title „No talking for seven days“ (Hamish Fulton) the exhibition revolves around the question, how contemporary painting, how contemporary art is up to the challenge those changes are imposing on us?

What is our relationship with nature today? How are nature and culture intertwined? Strange paradox there are contemporary works pervaded by a melancholically Romantic yearning for a lost sense of "Romantic yearning". Is there still something that can be called „realism“ that guarantees a resemblance to s.th. depicted?

Image credits:
Luisa Baldhuber
Archaeology I, 2025
Glass, digital print on paper, metal staples
24 cm x 23cm

Robert Elfgen

Gabbiano, 2025
Metallic spray paint, wood stain, ink on wood, artist's frame
96.5 x 107.5 x 4 cm | 38 x 42 1/4 x 1 5/8 inches (framed)

© Robert Elfgen
Courtesy the artist and Sprüth Magers
Photo: Mareike Tocha