Friederike Goebbels uses fire blankets as image carriers: she uses screen printing to capture the gradual changes in our climate over decades – a quiet but haunting archive of change. In Lisa Kaschubat's work ‘Burn Out’, physical sculpture and digital expansion merge into a double experience of excessive demands. Her Plexiglas works are characterised by fire - virtually supplemented by AR elements that refer to personal and global exhaustion. Elisa Jule Braun's 3D-animated video installation allows future creatures to explore alternative habitats. The evolutionary questions she raises on the basis of the domesticated horse strike at the heart of a debate about control, adaptation and coexistence. Adam Bialek explores humanity's connection to the sun as a source of life, energy, and culture. The light sculpture, made from biopolymer materials, raises the question of whether such artifacts reconnect us with the primal energies of life or further alienate us, calling for a synthesis of environment and innovation. Finally, Kaya Leonie Pilsner creates delicate mushroom sculptures from porcelain and polylactide fibres – inspired by tinder fungus. Her work thematises decomposition and transformation under the influence of technological influences and ecological instability.

The exhibition ‘aus der Asche’ is an invitation to engage with the global effects of global warming and the traces left behind by human activity. The artistic positions shed light on ecological destruction, resource consumption and adaptation strategies in a changing world – partly documentary, partly symbolic, partly speculative. Many works show the tension between apparent normality and a latent state of crisis, between control and loss of control, between personal concern and a global dimension. The question always arises: What happens when the old burns – and how do we deal with what remains?