Nicolas Party is showcasing his first institutional solo exhibition in Germany. On view at Museum Frieder Burda in Baden, When Tomorrow Comes encompasses the Swiss artist’s practice across painting, sculpture and massive site-specific installations.
The relationship between humanity and nature, more specifically the climate emergency, continues to play a thematic role within Party’s latest work. Following his latest exhibition at Hauser & Wirth, the New York-based artist invites audiences into an immersive display of burning forests, surreal portraiture and meditations on prehistoric species. “It’s interesting for me to think about the apocalypse and art history,” noted Party, “of Sodom and Gomorrah, and other historical paintings of fires that represent the end of the world.”
Party’s meditation on the end times joins a growing list of artists and activists, including a number of organizations who continue to use art as a stage to galvanize public awareness to the adverse effects of using fossil fuels. “We believe, and we feel, that we are at the end of our human path as global warming brings us to ecological crisis, but this feeling has been almost a constant, from Noah’s Ark and various apocalyptic tales in the Bible to the nuclear bombings of World War II.”
For those in Germany or will be in the near future, the exhibition will be on view until February 18.
Museum Frieder Burda
Lichtentaler Allee 8B,
76530 Baden-Baden, Germany
