The exhibition Inside Ecologies brings together artistic positions that explore the relationship between humans and the environment in natural and digital ecosystems. Untouched landscapes, appropriated areas and digital worlds become places of interaction between humans, nature and technology. How do we move within natural and digital ecosystems? What is our relationship to the environment and its non-human actors? What can cross-species collaborations between humans, animals or machines look like? How do we encounter digital actors who make their own decisions? How can we integrate ourselves into sustainable cycles in the face of dwindling resources and habitats? How is our image of nature and the environment changing in increasingly digital ecosystems? What are their conditions and what power relations lie behind them?

“Everything is interconnected: such is the principle of principles of ecology.” Based on this fundamental ecological principle of Frédéric Neyrat, ecology explores the reciprocal interactions of living beings with each other and with their inanimate environment. As early as the 1970s, art movements such as Land Art, Environmental Art and Conceptual Art addressed the interplay between humans and the environment beyond the white cube. Landscapes and entire ecosystems become part of the artwork in the most diverse forms of expression - as temporary markings, permanent settings or critical interventions. Even if the actions of humans sometimes have far-reaching consequences, they are not the sole creators of the environment. Plants and animals, machines and robots as well as local resources, climatic conditions, technical developments and cultural artifacts all shape our shared living environment. A sensitization to the logics, conditions and needs of their respective inhabitants seems unavoidable. The artists in the exhibition question interacting environments in the form of conceptual references, sculptural objects, digital imagery, cross-species collaborations, performative virtual reality installations and ecological experimental spaces. What cycles, networks of relationships and dependencies exist between them? Which new ones will emerge and which are in danger of disappearing? The exhibition will be accompanied by an extensive supporting program consisting of workshops, guided tours, film screenings, concerts and performances.