LUFT Eine für alle / The Air We Share

Invitation to hold your breath and take a deep breath

Air is omnipresent and yet elusive. It is always in motion and connects living beings - across ecosystems and geological eras. We humans also live in and through the air: we breathe it in and out around 20,000 times a day. And yet we behave as if we are not dependent on it. Through our actions, we change the air and thus increasingly also our living conditions.

The exhibition takes these changes as an opportunity to examine not only the physical properties of air but also its social impact - both locally and globally. Follow the movements of air through different ecosystems and geological eras and across national borders.

At the beginning of the exhibition tour, an air archive brings together personal air and perceptions of air. Fog catchers, which are used to filter water out of the air in places with low precipitation, capture air movements and air phenomena for visitors in the exhibition. A giant air conditioning pipe tells of the attempts to bring the air under control.

Numerous works of art and interactive stations are integrated into the exhibition, inviting visitors to discuss global environmental issues related to the state of the air. With an “emissions memory”, for example, the often abstract dimensions of CO2 emissions can be revealed.

Curators: Neli Wagner and Nele-Hendrikje Lehmann

The Atmospheric Data Collective (ADC), Frank Bloem, Anna and Bernhard Blume, Zlatko Cosic, Vibha Galhotra, Sonja Hornung and Daniele Tognozzi, Emily Parsons-Lord, Werner Reiterer, Karolina Sobecka and Chris Woebken, Koki Tanaka, Rikuo Ueda, Nils Völker

For more information please visit Deutsches Hygiene-Museum.