Press Dossier

After Nature: Inaugural Exhibition in the Humboldt Lab

The Humboldt-Universität makes climate crisis the starting point of its first exhibition in the Humboldt Forum

Climate change and the loss of biological diversity pose an existential threat to humankind. Solutions are only conceivable if the ecological, economic, social and political dimensions are considered in conjunction with each other. In this context the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin is opening the Humboldt Lab with an exhibition entitled “After Nature”. It focuses with a multitude of voices from scientific research on the violent effects of man-made global changes to the environment. What solution approaches are scientists working on and which futures are they designing? The exhibition on the first floor of the Humboldt Forum covers an area including a 150m2 foyer and a 600m2 main hall. Admission to the Humboldt Lab is free.

Download
The Research Wall
View of the research wall in the exhibition "After Nature" in the Humboldt Laboratory
© Humboldt Universität zu Berlin / schnellebuntebilder / Inside Outside | Petra Blaisse / Foto: Philipp Plum
The Janheinz Jahn Archive
Hahne-Niehoff Archive, Sound Archive and Janheinz Jahn Archive in the exhibition "After Nature" in the Humboldt Laboratory
© Humboldt‐Universität zu Berlin, Institut für Europäische Ethnologie – Hahne‐Niehoff‐Archiv / Hermann von Helmholtz‐Zentrum für Kulturtechnik – Lautarchiv / Universitätsbibliothek, Institut für Asien‐Afrika‐Wissenschaften – Janheinz Jahn‐Archiv / Inside Outside | Petra Blaisse / Ausstellungsgrafik: Julia Neller / Foto: Philipp Plum
“Everything is Interaction”
Models of the Goldau landslide in 1806 in the "After Nature" exhibition in the Humboldt Laboratory
© Humboldt‐Universität zu Berlin, Geomorphologisch‐Geologische Sammlung / Inside Outside | Petra Blaisse / Foto: Philipp Plum

Press Photos

Interactive projection of a shoal of fish and presentations by Berlin’s Clusters of Excellence in the foyer of the Humboldt Laboratory
© Humboldt Universität zu Berlin / schnellebuntebilder / Foto: Philipp Plum
View of the research wall in the exhibition "After Nature" in the Humboldt Laboratory
© Humboldt Universität zu Berlin / schnellebuntebilder / Inside Outside | Petra Blaisse / Foto: Philipp Plum
Models of the Goldau landslide in 1806 in the "After Nature" exhibition in the Humboldt Laboratory
© Humboldt‐Universität zu Berlin, Geomorphologisch‐Geologische Sammlung / Inside Outside | Petra Blaisse / Foto: Philipp Plum
View of the exhibition "After Nature" at the Humboldt Forum
© Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin / Brain Simulation Section, Charité – Universitätsmedizin and Berlin Institute of Health / Exzellenzcluster NeuroCure / Inside Outside | Petra Blaisse / Foto: Philipp Plum
Hahne-Niehoff Archive, Sound Archive and Janheinz Jahn Archive in the exhibition "After Nature" in the Humboldt Laboratory
© Humboldt‐Universität zu Berlin, Institut für Europäische Ethnologie – Hahne‐Niehoff‐Archiv / Hermann von Helmholtz‐Zentrum für Kulturtechnik – Lautarchiv / Universitätsbibliothek, Institut für Asien‐Afrika‐Wissenschaften – Janheinz Jahn‐Archiv / Inside Outside | Petra Blaisse / Ausstellungsgrafik: Julia Neller / Foto: Philipp Plum
Dry specimen of a pangolin (Manis temminckii)
© Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Zoologische Lehrsammlung / Foto: Mathias Heyde
Hand of an ape (probably chimpanzee), 28.12.15.0-40 (back view)
© Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Zoologische Lehrsammlung / Stiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss, Foto: Philipp Jester | Jens Blank
Lecture notebook to Prof. Friedrich Paulsen’s lectures about Psychology & Anthropology, Hdschr. Koll. 290 (Detail Commentary)
© Universitätsbibliothek der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Historische Sammlungen Signatur: Hdschr. Koll. 290 / Stiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss, Foto: Philipp Jester | Jens Blank