Jakob Mattner

In the second volume exploring the impact of and response to an exhibition, the artist Jakob Mattner questions which perspective we might take in light of current world events. In his exhibition Deep Time, shown over five months at St. Matthäus, which is part of the Kulturforum Berlin, he expanded the concept of time into deep time, shifting perspective to a world without us, to a time before humankind existed, and transforming fundamental questions of meaning into expanded fields of perception and spaces for contemplation.
Authors Verena Auffermann, Hannes Langbein, Bernd Scherer, and Rudolf Zwirner explore the artist’s most recent work Deep Time. They reflect upon his artistic dialogue with forms of life and the threats they are facing against the backdrop of a looming existential crisis for our civilization.