Landscapes are never just what we see before us. They reveal who we are, how we relate to our surroundings, and how memories, emotions, and time shape our sense of place. Layers of the Land brings together five contemporary artists – Adam Lucas Himebauch, Benjamin King, Christoph Drexler and Simon Kroug – whose practices explore the ways in which landscapes are continually reshaped through memory, structure, and sensory experience.
The title refers not only to the visible layers of the earth – soil, stone, sediment – but also to the unseen layers of meaning that we project onto the land. Every place holds traces of history, change, and human presence. A landscape can bear witness to the past, serve as a site of transformation, or act as a quiet mirror of our inner world.
Through painting, abstraction, collage, and texture, each artist in this exhibition reveals a different layer of meaning. Their work shows that a landscape is not a fixed image, but a living record of perception – where material and imagination, the visible and the felt, are in constant dialogue. Layers of the Land invites you to move through these depths, to see and feel anew, and to reconsider your own place within the landscape.

Artists: Benjamin King, Simon Kroug, Christoph Drexler, Adam Himebauch