Nimmersatt? Gesellschaft ohne Wachstum denken
LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur, Kunsthalle Münster, Westfälischer Kunstverein

Was kommt nach dem Wachstum?

Occupying a privileged economic position, the Global North clings to the idea that there is no viable option other than growth. Yet it is more evident than ever that growth is finite. In many ways, the debates over climate change, rising social inequality, wars, diseases, refugee movements and xenophobia, and, last but not least, the COVID crisis have added urgency to the question of what societies might look like after growth-oriented capitalism.

 The three-part exhibition Nimmersatt? Imagining Society without Growth in Münster harnesses this momentum to think about alternative ways to proceed and presents works of art to ask: Can we start afresh with a different logic, can we systematically change course and reorganize society, and how? The collaborative project’s focus is on works that propose novel perspectives and figures of thought and initiate a discussion on alternative political and social models. The exhibition debates what an era of post-growth might look like, also reflecting on scenarios of how the “art operating system”—the modes and methods of production or the growing complexities of transportation and exhibition installation—might be made more sustainable.

The reader accompanying the exhibition Nimmersatt? Imagining Society without Growth contains contributions by Hortensia Völckers, Kirsten Haß, Merle Radtke, Kristina Scepanski, Marianne Wagner, Irmi Seidl, Angelika Zahrnt, Jonas Staal, Felix Maschewski, Anna-Verena Nosthoff, Tim Rieniets, Fran Illich, and Jenni Henke.