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Messengers from Above

Meteorites - mysterious messengers from outer space

05.12.2024 - 11.05.2025 ,
Eres-Stiftung (Eres Foundation)

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Today only open by appointment
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Römerstr. 15
80801 München

Will the sky fall on our heads one day? Meteorites have a magical attraction, but at the same time they fuel age-old fears. Whereas in the Middle Ages they were seen as divine signs, today people fear a natural disaster: a meteorite impact that could wipe out our civilisation. Do we need to prepare to leave the earth? For the time being, there is no reason to worry, as planetary defence programmes from NASA or ESA have potentially dangerous large calibres from space firmly in their sights.

Countless pieces of extraterrestrial rock enter the Earth's atmosphere every day. Because they are often only the size of a grain of dust, they usually burn up unnoticed. However, some debris makes it to Earth and harbours exciting secrets: It is highly probable that meteorites were involved in the origin of life. Only recently has it been proven that some of them contain organic substances such as water and amino acids. A groundbreaking discovery.

In the new ERES Foundation exhibition, the primordial matter of the solar system becomes a "time capsule", a valuable information carrier for art and science. While researchers are hoping to draw conclusions about the origin and future of life, artists are reading the extraterrestrial data storage units in a multifaceted wealth of contemporary positions: Works that amaze, utopian-dystopian visions and works full of humour and poetry penetrate the atmosphere of the exhibition spaces, asking about chance and probability, about new dimensions. And again and again about the position of us humans in the great cosmic structure. Will we need an interplanetary Noah's Ark?

Works by the following artists are on display: Yael Bartana, Julius von Bismarck, Albrecht Dürer, Bogomir Ecker, Rodney Graham, Wolfgang Kaiser, Lukas Kindermann, Sonia Leimer, Olaf Nicolai, Regine Petersen, James Rosenquist, Charles Stankievech.

Last edited on 23.11.2024

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Museum / Exhibition Centre: Eres-Stiftung (Eres Foundation)

The ERES-Stiftung (Eres Foundation) sees itself as a platform for the dialogue between natural science and visual arts. In changing exhibitions, positions of contemporary artists who deal with...

Location: München