Desertification 2024

A Group exhibition Art Association Neuhausen

Opening on September 28, 2024, until November 17, 2024.

»Desertification« is an ecological term that describes the process of desert formation. Desertification, or land degradation, is sometimes caused by natural factors but is usually man-made – resulting from climate change, deforestation, overgrazing, poverty, political instability, war, unsustainable irrigation methods, or a combination of these factors. Along with rising sea levels, heat waves, and the increasing frequency of floods and storms, it represents one of the most significant changes on our planet. These changes are often accompanied by a global sociopolitical coarsening. However, these drastic impacts also offer an opportunity for collective rethinking and the emergence of something new. Deserts around the world, though diverse in nature, share several remarkable social characteristics: they are wastelands, habitats, and serve as site-specific foundations for simulating future planetary settlements. They are places of crisis, artistic subversion, and utopian societal projects. Thus, deserts are culturally vibrant places that know neither beginning nor end.
The exhibition project is based on the principle of dialogue and examines the phenomenon of »desertification« by incorporating ecological, economic, and social-psychological aspects.

With Jan Nicola Angermann, Maan Barua, Lukas Bauer, Beate Baumgärtner, Stella Covi, Kosmas Phan Dinh, Jan Forray, Moe Thet Han, Leila Hekmatnia, Barbara Karsch-Chaïeb, Andreas Mayer-Brennenstuhl, Sadya Mizan, Ahmed Rasel, Benjamin Stäbler, Georg Winter, Tatyana Zambrano.

Photo Credits: Barbara Karsch-Chaïeb, Jan Nicola Angermann (No.4, No.6).

Works of Barbara Karsch-Chaïeb:
Shelter, 2024, Sculpture of bamboo and hempstring from inside to outside, size variable. Together with a work of Andreas Mayer-Brennenstuhl.
To go with the flow, Installation, drawing on Japanese paper, 2019, size variable.
Bodam, 2024, drawings with earth, stone, ink, 15 x 21 cm each. On the wall of Folke Köbberling, 2022, Kunstverein Neuhausen.

Image rights VG Bild-Kunst Bonn, Barbara Karsch-Chaïeb