DHMD - Deutsches Hygiene-Museum

Apr 19, 2019 - Apr 19, 2020 About the often underestimated importance of plants for human culture - a differentiated look at the biological and cultural dimensions of flora. Accompanying volume to the exhibition "Of Plants and People" in the German Hygiene Museum Dresden from April 2019 to April 2020. Plants - they create the air we breathe, form the basis of our food chain, help to relax in green oases of peace and are an essential part of ours Culture. Despite this immense importance, we usually only perceive it as a backdrop for human undertakings. Plants are often underestimated not only because of their ubiquity, but also because of their apparent passivity. Plants are complex, comprehensively networked creatures, the existence of which makes human culture possible in the first place, as the authors of this accompanying volume clearly illustrate. They show their importance at the intersection of biology, cultural studies and everyday life and examine the technical preparation and cultural reshaping of plants as well as conceptions of their vitality and dignity using terms such as plant soul, plant rights, biofact, invasive plants and patenting. The essays are supplemented by excerpts from poetry and literature in which the plant blossoms as a source of motifs and ideas in the arts. THE ARTISTS

John Baldessari, Alberto Baraya, André Bayard, Karl Blossfeldt, Susanne Bürner, Samuel Butler, Karen Cantú, Martin Claßen, Roald Dahl, Arno Drescher, Mat Hennek, Alessandro Holler, Volker Kreidler, Jochen Lempert, Liisa Lounila, Richard Lowenberg, Marcus Maeder , Antje Majewski, Siobhán McDonald, Margaret Mee, Uriel Orlow, Elske Rosenfeld, Michael Sailstorfer, Klaus D. Schmitt, Renée Sintenis, Åsa Sonjasdotter, Stuart A. Staples, George Steinmetz, Alexandra R. Toland, Michael Wang, Andreas Weinand, Susanne M. Winterling