Remembering Landscape

What do we mean by landscape today?

Is it still the aesthetic ideal of a varied natural, agricultural and residential area inherited from the Romantic period? Today, modern landscapes are often "non-places". They bear traces of economic interventions, changing boundaries, are characterised by displacement, war or by urban sprawl and mining. Often all that remains is a kind of residual nature in which a few ruins bear witness to historical events. Barren landscapes that speak of past violence are degraded to (visual) material. At the same time, (war) memories are visibly embodied in architectural monuments from the 20th century. In this exhibition and in numerous contributions to the extensive book, 24 artists and artist groups make the topos of landscape speak for itself. They work on landscape images between fiction, symbolism and documentation, and they appeal to our ability to read and decipher these images - and of course they appeal to our imagination and our ability to feel empathy.

Artists:
Anca Benera and Arnold Estefán, Nico Bleutge, Bogdan Bordeianu, Lucian Bran, Helwig Brunner, Marianna Christofides, Luc Delahaye, Chloe Dewe Mathews, Lukas Einsele, Daniel Falb, Cyprien Gaillard, Dani Gherca, Anne Heinlein and Göran Gnaudschun, Nico Ilfoveanu, Markus Karstieß, Thomas Kellner, Jan Kempenaers, Anselm Kiefer, Aglaia Konrad, Susanne Kriemann, Armin Linke in collaboration with Aristide Antonas and Estelle Blaschke, Richard Mosse, Andreas Mühe, multiplicity, Cyprian Muresan, Paul Nash, Alexandra Navratil, Cristian Rusu, Larisa Sitar, Milica Tomic & Sans Souci Collective, Unknown Fields, Danny Veys, Paul Virilio, Kristof Vrancken

Exhibitions:
Museum of Contemporary Art Siegen, 10/6 - 30/9/2018
MNAC Muzeul National de Arta Contemporana, Bucharest, 16/11/2018 - 17/3/2019
Sint-Lukasgalerie & De Markten, Brussels, 24/4 - 8/6/2019