Press Release
In his artistic practice, Dennis Siering deals with possible and actual scenarios of the substantial change of the earth due to the industrial age. To this end, Siering explores landscape scenarios in the age of the Anthropocene and combines natural materials with synthetic ones—often in an aesthetic of industrial production. His works visualize possible future models of landscapes. What at first glance looks like questionable visions of the future has in some respects long since become the inescapable reality of our present: the effects of human activity have long since become part of our environment in the form of anthropogenic pollution.
Dennis Sierin, Unnatural Territories
Kunstverein, Brunswick (Germany)
02.12 - 25.02.2024
While just under 2 million tons of plastic were produced worldwide every year in the 1950s, this figure has risen to around 400 million tons annually today. Due to its enormously long shelf life, it can be assumed that all plastics ever produced are still present on our planet and will eventually be connected to it. On his online platform pyroplastics.org, Siering devotes himself to a relatively little-
As part of his exhibition Unnatural Territories, Dennis Siering presents works from the past five years and numerous new productions. With installations, sculptures and video works, he creates his very own dramaturgy that completely takes over the first floor of the Villa Salve Hospes.
Curator: Jule Hillgärtner
Exhibition 02 December 2023 -
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Dennis Siering, Synthetic Stone No.156, 2023. Courtesy of Dennis Siering. © VG Bild-
