Water Messages

February 25 to October 31, 2023

From melting glaciers and sea-level rise to storm surges, drought,
and pollution: water affects us all. Although the consequences
of the climate crisis are increasingly felt in Germany, too, the
most drastic impacts are unevenly distributed across the colonial
divide. The exhibition explores ecological knowledges and
water stories documented in the MARKK’s historical collections.
Examples from contemporary art and design relate them to
water protection and climate justice movements of the Global
South. The exhibition invites us to listen to these water messages
to rethink our relationships beyond human exceptionalism.

The experimental exhibition was developed in collaboration with an international Water Think Tank and designed by the London RESOLVE collective.

Dr. Johanna Wild and Katharina Nowak
johanna.wild@markk-hamburg.de

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