The exhibition which originated in the "2. Bienal del Fin del Mundo" in Argentina, travelled in different versions to Rio de Janeiro, New York, Berlin, Toulouse and Cape Town in South Africa. It will be opening in Hong Kong on October 26 this year and is scheduled for Sanaa (Yemen) next year, having covered no less than 5 continents. The Goethe-Institut Hongkong will present its Asian Premiere. All we need to know about climate change, in terms of science, has been said. However, the issue raises not only political, economic and social questions, but also cultural ones. Our exhibition aims to "culturalize" climatic phenomena by measuring the "esthetic temperature" of the conditio humana. The exhibition raises the question of how human beings are dealing with the imponderables of the climate and the environment, how they have adapted, and which survival strategies they have developed.

Curator: Alfons Hug, born 1950. From 1994-98 he was head of the visual arts department at the House of World Cultures, Berlin. In 2002 and 2004 he was curator of the Bienal de Sao Paulo and in 2003 and 2005 of the Brazilian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. In 2011 Hug will be curator of the Latin American Pavilion at the Venice Biennale.

Artists involved (subject to change):
Guido van der Werve (Holland), Alexander Nikolaev (Usbekistan), Simon Faithfull (England), Reynold Reynolds (USA), Eugenio Ampudia (Spanien), Michael Sailstorfer/Jürgen Heinert (Deutschland), George Osodi (Nigeria), Laura Glusman (Argentinien), Thomas Mulcaire (Südafrika), Agnes Meyer-Brandis (Deutschland), Neville D’ Almeida (Brasil), Gianfranco Foschino (Chile).