How much influence and freedom do humans have in a world that is increasingly shaped by autonomous technological forces?
EARTH MATTERS invites you on an interdisciplinary journey through the natural sciences and highlights 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 our senses in a variety of ways. They address central questions of our time: the consequences of industrialization, the human quest for optimization, and the unpredictable consequences of technological developments. The focus is on ecological systems, technical artifacts, and hidden biological life forms of unimagined beauty—and their potential to bring about positive change and exert global influence, independently of humans or in collaboration with them.