This art exhibition is something special – in more ways than one. Foreword by Klaus-Dieter Lehmann, President of the Goethe-Institut       More ...

Escape or place of damnation: the tropics have inspired modern artists to venture their own interpretations of this myth for more than a hundred years. Our current Tropics exhibition renews the attempt to detect the streams of energy and fine interferences between the hemispheres, and to venture a non-hierarchical look at the world.       More ...

An exhibition concept
The exhibition confronts contemporary artistic comings to grip with the myth of the “tropics” with archaic objects of art from the geographically defined tropical zone. Time levels are whirled together and questions about what is old and what new, what antiquated and what modern, what central and what peripheral, are answered anew.       More ...

From Honey to Ashes
In its choice of thematic categories the exhibition is associatively and loosely guided by Claude Lévi-Strauss’s Mythologica, in particular by the works Du miel aux cendres (From Honey to Ashes) and Le cru et le cuit (The Raw and the Cooked), which are distinguished by their high literary quality and thus underpin the exhibition’s poetic aspirations.       More ...