11.06.2026 – 31.10.2026
Nature is often cited as the antithesis of culture: as something primal and untouched. Yet this distinction has long since become inadequate: today, nature is observed, measured, exploited, protected and threatened. And staged. It no longer appears as an immediate reality, but rather exists in a state of constant mediation.
This is where the exhibition ‘Constructed Nature’ comes in. The depictions of animals by Dana Meyer, Nelly Schmücking and Matthias Garff present the animal not merely as a motif, but as a counterpart. It becomes a mirror of our perception and our responsibility towards living beings.
The exhibition venue, Bad Ischl, reinforces this line of inquiry. The idyllic Salzkammergut landscape is both a natural and cultural space, historically shaped by exploitation, aestheticisation and appropriation, as seen, for example, in the Imperial Villa with its hunting trophies. Here, nature always appears as a constructed and interpreted reality.
Constructed Nature
11.06.2026 – 31.10.2026
Marmorschlössl Bad Ischl
Jainzen 1, 4820 Bad Ischl
Zugang über Götz-Straße
www.ooekultur.at
