Bärbel Hische | Kartoffelacker | 2014 | Farbfotografie auf Alu-Dibond

Prepared original plants are on an equal footing with drawings. Photographs, maps, and sketches merge into complex collages. The artists Bärbel Hische and Johanna Helbling-Felix venture an unconventional, multimedia approach to the theme of “landscape”. Experimentally, like in an artistic laboratory, the presentation and observation of nature, unexpected perspectives from the air, and mindful forays through field and forest combine to form a modern and startling look at an age-old subject: Nature.

The surprising details of her works reveal the beauty but also the otherness of nature in invariably new ways. Familiar landscapes are being redrafted with incorruptible precision. At the same time, man’s violent intrusion, despite the destruction caused by it, produces new aesthetic aspects.