What do we understand today by landscape? Still the aesthetic ideal inherited from Romanticism of a variedly designed natural, agricultural, and settlement space? Modern landscapes are often "non-places." They bear traces of economic interventions, changing borders, and are shaped by displacement, war, or urban sprawl and mining. Often, only a kind of residual nature remains, where a few ruins testify to historical events. Desolate landscapes that speak of past violence have been reduced to mere teaching material. At the same time, memories of war are visibly embodied in architectural monuments from the 20th century.

24 artists and artist groups bring the topic of landscape to life in this exhibition and in numerous contributions to the extensive book. They work on landscape images that lie between fiction, symbolism, and documentation, appealing to our ability to read and decipher these images – and of course, they address our imagination and our capacity for empathy.

Artists: Anca Benera and Arnold Estefán, Nico Bleutge, Bogdan Bordeianu, Lucian Bran, Helwig Brunner, Marianna Christofides, Luc Delahaye, Chloe Dewe Mathews, Lukas Einsele, Daniel Falb, Cyprien Gaillard, Dani Gherca, Anne Heinlein and Göran Gnaudschun, Nico Ilfoveanu, Markus Karstiess, Thomas Kellner, Jan Kempenaers, Anselm Kiefer, Aglaia Konrad, Susanne Kriemann, Armin Linke in collaboration with Aristide Antonas and Estelle Blaschke, Richard Mosse, Andreas Mühe, Multiplicity, Cyprian Muresan, Paul Nash, Alexandra Navratil, Cristian Rusu, Larisa Sitar, Milica Tomic & Sans Souci Collective, Unknown Fields, Danny Veys, Paul Virilio, Kristof Vrancken.

Exhibitions: Museum of Contemporary Art Siegen, June 10 - September 30, 2018; MNAC National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, November 16, 2018 - March 17, 2019; Sint-Lukasgalerie & De Markten, Brussels, April 24 - June 8, 2019.