Vicky Anna Lardschneider
Ubahn Galerie, Bezirksausschuss Maxvorstadt, Munich, 2021
 

In 2021, Vicky Anna Lardschneider presented the exhibition Spuren und Narben in the U-Bahn Gallery of the District Committee Maxvorstadt at Universität Munich.
The exhibition examined the visible and invisible traces of human intervention in nature, focusing on landscapes marked by industrial exploitation and environmental violence.

Through large-scale abstract works rendered from a bird’s-eye perspective, Lardschneider depicted sites of deforestation, mining, agricultural chemicals, and resource extraction.
Inspired by aerial imagery, the works reveal a disturbing paradox: scenes of ecological devastation appear visually seductive, their aesthetic beauty drawing viewers closer before confronting them with their underlying reality.

Color functions as both attraction and disruption, inviting reflection on the mechanisms of perception and denial.
The exhibition deliberately used beauty as a strategy to address destruction, questioning how and why harmful realities are so often overlooked.

Spuren und Narben positioned abstraction as a tool for ecological awareness, bridging emotional response and critical reflection, and framed the urban exhibition space as a site of public discourse.
The exhibition received significant media attention, including coverage by Süddeutsche Zeitung, underscoring its relevance within contemporary environmental and cultural debate.