Messengers From Above

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 hope to draw conclusions about the origins and future of life, artists are reading the extraterrestrial data repositories 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?

Last edited on 17.04.2025