How to balance the relationship between technology and society,civilization and nature in the quest for sustainable development, when theprogress of human society is inextricably linked to technological innovationand the exploitation of nature? This is a profound and wide-ranging propositionthat concerns the fate of every species on the planet. Austrian artist KarinPliem reflects this theme through her creations.

The exhibition title “Biocultural Community” combines the still youngscientific term ‘biocultural diversity’ with the traditional word ‘community’.Biocultural diversity encompasses the diversity of life in all itsmanifestations – biological, cultural and linguistic.