Soil Studies – New Danish Photography of Nature is an exhibition about ‘soil’ as concrete, physical material, and as the basis of belonging and identity. The exhibition brings together the works of five Danish art photographers and reaches beyond Danish soil into the Greenlandic and Icelandic landscapes: rock, sea, botany and the human body meet in very experimental and spatial works.  The selection of works places emphasis on the paradoxical relationship between humans and nature, in which we simultaneously turn to nature to feel small and to feel connected to a system much larger than ourselves – and all the while, we are increasingly becoming aware that we as a species excerpt immense control over this same global ecosystem. How do we connect intellectually, emotionally and pragmatically to nature at this point in time? To what extent is our conception of nature a construction?

The artists of the exhibition each had their own approach to working with the theme but they share an interest in using the image-creating process itself as a source of knowledge and to express personal experience, and they testify to both cultural, scientific and emotional meanings of the earth beneath our
feet.

Artists: Ditte Knus Tønnesen, Lotte Fløe Christensen, Veronika Geiger, Inuuteq Storch, Kirstine Autzen.

Curated by Beate Cegielska and Kirstine Autzen.