Meat polarises. It is by far the most emotional food we know. Many consider it to be primal and energising, deeply rooted in human history and culture as well as in individual biographies and lifestyles. Pleasure, celebration, status and power form a tightly woven fabric together with meat. And so the desire for meat is growing worldwide, while in Europe it is stagnating at a high level or declining only slightly.
But eating meat is not sensible. In the quantities consumed by the average German, it is not only a climate killer and resource guzzler, but also unhealthy. And the expectation that meat should be affordable for everyone several times a week has led to ever more "efficient", i.e. ethically questionable, methods of animal husbandry.

Our exhibition examines why meat was taken for granted and viewed positively for so long, and how a slow change in values began in this country as the global view opened up. It discusses the conflicts inherent in meat and encourages visitors to adopt their own attitude. In doing so, it plays on two levels of experience: exploring a thematically structured tour and immersing oneself in artistic worlds.
The thematic tour looks at meat in cultural, social, political and ecological contexts, questions our relationship to animals and animal rights and considers whether lab-grown meat can be a solution.
The artistic approach ties in with the chapter topics, but also opens up new windows with sometimes personal, sometimes surprising associations and discussions. The following artists have been invited to contribute*: Ute Bartel, Michael von Brentano, Andrea Jäggi-Staudacher, Dora Kallmus (Madame D'Ora), Hartmut Kiewert, Jochen Lempert, Neozoon, Marije Vogelzang, Henk Wildschut and others.

Curator: Dr Isabel Greschat

*the names are provisional and not yet to be understood as a valid list