The brainchild of curator Dieter Roelstraete, an exhibition which explores the meanings of weather in visual art, using atmospheric conditions as a springboard for a more extensive examination of the ongoing climate emergency. More than fifty contemporary pieces and an additional selection of historical pieces that reveal the constant interest of artists in “talking about the weather”. Passing from allegorical and en plein air paintings to recent multimedia installations and transnational activism, the exhibition enucleates and highlights through art the various ways in which climate and weather have shaped our cultural identities, foregrounding the various forms through which humanity has over time managed to deal with daily exposure to meteorological events.
