Hamburg/Berlin/Halle 2017-2018

The three shows “Disappearing Legacies: The World as Forest” hosted thirteen artworks, including eight new commissions; a three-part project by Anna-Sophie Springer and Etienne Turpin. The travelling exhibition was realized by Centrum für Naturkunde at the Universität Hamburg, where it was on in the fall of 2017. In 2018, adapted iterations were presented from April 27 until August 26, 2018 at the project partner, Tieranatomisches Theater at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and from October 19 until December 14, 2018 at the Zentralmagazin Naturwissenschaftlicher Sammlungen of the Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg in Halle/Saale. The exhibition cycle is a cooperation with the Schering Stiftung and the Goethe Institut. The project is funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation. The exhibitions displayed contemporary artworks as well as zoological and botanical objects to investigate the changes in the tropical regions that Wallace once traveled to and to shed light on the ecological issues faced by today’s fauna and flora of Amazon, Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore.

Video Artists:
Maria Thereza Alves, Ari Bayuaji, Bik Van der Pol, Radjawali Irendra/Akademi Drone Indonesia, Armin Linke with Giulia Bruno and Giuseppe Ielasi, Barbara Marcel, PetaBencana.id, SHIMURAbros, autonoma/Paulo Tavares

Project Manager: Margarita Kudrina

Project homepage: www.reassemblingnature.org

Photos: Michael Pfisterer