Every second year the Stadthaus Ulm invites young people to take part in the photo competition Kindling Democracy focusing on changing democratic values.
Kathrin Linkersdorff's fascinating large-format photographs are located somewhere between art and science. In her experiments, which are at the interface with botany and microbiology, she analyses the nature and structure of plants. She purposely sets off disintegration processes that reveal the inner structure of blossoms in order to capture them in photographic stagings.
Plants are communicating with each other, they are exchanging information, they are capable to learn and they even follow mobility strategies. Scientists like e.g. the behavioural biologist Monica Gagliano or the plant neurobiologist Stefano Mancuso are convinced that plants do possess subtle skills in actively influencing their environment. Plants live in a cosmos of interconnection, relations, dependences and mutual support.
Emil Kräß worked at the Minster's stonemasons' lodge in Ulm for 38 years.
In November 2024 the Minster's longest-serving stonemason put down his mallet and retired. Admittedly, this does not keep him from continuing to use hammer and chisel. Besides his job the stonemason from Holzschwang developed his very own artistic way of working with sandstone and limestone.
Herlinde Koelbl took twenty-three portraits of Angela Merkel. The setting was always the same: a white wall, a chair, and no instructions from the photographer. The photos document Angela Merkel's ascent from "Kohl's girl" to the world's most powerful female head of government.
Angelika Platen's art of taking portraits demonstrates her ability to depict the essence of an artist in connection with their body of work in one single picture.
The world is undergoing a process of transformation, resulting in an increasing number of crises. Due to globalisation, climate change, technological developments, wars and their far-reaching consequences familiar structures vanish without being replaced by new orders.
The group exhibition HOME AGAIN features 14 contemporary photography and video works exploring the adaptability of a rapidly changing society.
Featured artists: M L Casteel, Hannah Darabi, Göran Gnaudschun, Andy Heller, Ulrike Kolb, Oliver Krebs, Eva Leitolf, Wiebke Loeper, Ute Mahler and Werner Mahler, Jana Sophia Nolle, Ingmar Björn Nolting, Peter Piller, Minna Rainio and Mark Roberts, Elena Subach. Guest curators: Andy Heller, Oliver Krebs.
When the glaciers retreated at the end of the last ice age 12,000 years ago, a landscape veined with numerous bodies of water formed in Mecklenburg-West Pomerania, in the Northeast of Germany. The topography is characterised by rivers and streams with a total length of almost 26,000 km and more than 2,200 lakes.
The consequences of human civilisation - intensive farming, agricultural industrialisation, and global warming due to the climate change - pose a major threat to the survival of these biotopes.
