“Save the date for the opening of Verschwindende Vermächtnisse: Die Welt als Wald [Disappearing Legacies: The World as Forest] in the Natural History Collections of Martin Luther University in Halle/Saale, which will be installed throughout the entire building—that is normally not open to the public in this way. The exhibition confronts traditional images of nature in the context of species mass extinction, deforestation, and climate change and was shown in Hamburg and Berlin before.

The project presents contemporary artworks and curatorial assemblages that renounce a romantic notion of untouched nature. Fifteen installations, photographs, sculptures, and moving-image works—including eight newly commissioned projects—draw connections between Alfred Russel Wallace’s nineteenth-century expeditions to Amazonia and Southeast Asia and current urgencies of environmental transformation.”

The entry is free and the exhibition is open from Wednesday to Saturday from 10 am to 6 pm.
For more information, see the exhibition website: http://reassemblingnature.org/ [text above taken from the same website; photo: Hermann von Helmholtz-Zentrum für Kulturtechnik]