Exhibition
The Aesthetics of Wonder
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Venue: Collegium Helveticum, outdoor area.
This exhibition was installed as part of the two workshops A Case for Space Environmentalism and Environmental Law in the Space Age.
Admission is free. Located in a public outdoor area, the exhibition is accessible 24 hours a day from April 13 to April 30, 2026.
Images from Earth observation and astronomy captivate with overwhelming aesthetics. They often evoke a sense of beauty in observers, even though the foundations for such an effect are not always obvious in the context of scientific images. However, upon closer look, the constitutive elements of these pictures can be interpreted in terms of fundamental categories used in art and media history to describe and understand images – such as harmony, line, color, or materiality.
This exhibition in the courtyard of the Semper Observatory, now home to the Collegium, sheds light on the historical, cultural, and aesthetic mechanisms that allow for a comparison of these scientific images with abstract works of art.
Text by Jelena Rakin, UZH.
Curators I Ralph Rosenbauer (Switzerland Innovation Park Zürich), Jelena Rakin (UZH), Claudia Röösli (UZH), Jochem Braakhekke (UZH), Ravit Helled (UZH)
Text and images I Claudia Röösli (UZH), Jochem Braakhekke (UZH), Jelena Rakin (UZH), Ravit Helled (UZH), Ella Schubiger (UZH), Devin Routh (UZH), Robert Feldmann (UZH), Joachim Stadel (UZH)
Exhibition production I Miguel Lauper (Bureau Lauper GmbH)
Panels printing I Angela Boog und Marcel Kuna (Attilio AG)
Supported I Switzerland Innovation Park ZĂĽrich and UZH Space Hub
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