Biomorphic worlds: Where art and science merge

The exhibition shows a variety of sculptures and small sculptures as well as drawings, etchings, linocuts and woodcuts. They reflect the artistic approaches to seven selected objects. Over a period of more than four years, Henning Bock regularly visited the Museum Koenig Bonn, Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change (LIB), to make sketches and detailed drawings in front of the objects in the collection.

While studying fine art in Bielefeld, Henning Bock already explored the shapes, colours and structures of found objects from nature and worked on artistic transformations: "In the creative process, the two- and three-dimensional means of image design influence and interpenetrate each other and open up new pictorial spaces between objective conditions and subjective interpretation and variation of organic structures."

The scientific collections at Museum Koenig Bonn, which comprise over five million objects, document the diversity and - often man-made - changes in nature. They reflect the change of species and biotic communities in time and space and provide researchers with the basis for understanding interrelationships in nature and thus provide data for conservation measures. The collections form the reference database for the description of new species or also provide evidence that a species has become extinct.