From October 10, 2019 to February 16, 2020, the Frankfurter Kunstverein in cooperation with the Senckenberg Naturmuseum Frankfurt is presenting the exhibition “Trees of Life – Stories for a Damaged Planet” – an interdisciplinary exhibition project that takes a look at a historically grown, anthropocentric world view towards a systemic understanding of man as part of the evolutionary process.
For the exhibition, contemporary artists produce works and spatial installations and place them in a content-related dialogue with scientific exhibits from the collections of the Senckenberg Research Institute and Nature Museum. The exhibition project is accompanied by panel discussions, in which writers, scientists, philosophers, economists, and others discuss, explain and explore the thematic spectrum.
The exhibition will cover the entire area of the Frankfurter Kunstverein. The artists Sonja Bäumel (Austria, lives and works in Amsterdam), Edgar Honetschläger (Austria, lives and works in Vienna, Rome and Tokyo), Dominique Koch (Switzerland, lives and works in Basel and Paris) and the artist collective Studio Drift were invited (Netherlands, live and work in Amsterdam). A separate room is dedicated to each participant.