Nature Strikes Back

This comprehensive exhibition on the occasion of the UN Copenhagen Climate Change Conference portrays the relationship between man and nature in all the art forms (sculpture, painting, graphic art, etc.) from Antiquity to the present day.

The wide-ranging but carefully staged selection of works presents a very topical narration of man’s view of nature over the ages. This stretches from the poetical and symbolic concept of the relationship which was established both artistically and intellectually long ago in Antiquity to the attempts of the present day to drive nature out and marginalize it.

The exhibition also looks at what happens to the notion of being able to control nature, when it suddenly strikes back and seizes our attention. The exhibition offers a wonderful journey through many centuries of art, from Antiquity and the apocalyptic religious rhetoric of the Middle Ages to the staging of nature in the Baroque period up to the necessary attempts of the present to create new ways of relating to nature so that we may perhaps ensure the survival of both man and nature. A large, fully-illustrated book accompanies the exhibition.

Nature Strikes Back

Künstler: Paul Cézanne, Lucas Cranach, Albrecht Dürer, Per Kirkeby, Christian Schmidt-Rasmussen ...