In connection with the exhibition Unheimliche Verschiebungen (Uncanny Shifts), the Künstler*innenhaus Dortmund is presenting Tingling Earth – Schauer unter der Haut der Erde🔥 (Tingling Earth. Shivers Under the Earth’s Skin). This group show that brings together young artists from the region, Europe and the Ukrainian diaspora can be regarded as an exhibition within the larger exhibition. Tingling Earth – Schauer unter der Haut der Erde🔥 focuses especially on the artistic engagement with land as fertile soil, as an ecosystem and as the (under)ground on which community, but also division, can grow. 

A teaspoon of healthy soil contains more microorganisms than there are people on Earth, and a healthy soil microbiome has been increasingly linked to healthy human intestinal flora. The soil is not just underneath us; it’s also within us.  

Land as part of a multitude of interconnected soil situations especially becomes central during global crises – in conflicts over resources, as territory, or as the provider of raw materials. At the same time, its ecological dimension is revealed when raw materials run out, leaving devastated and contaminated areas.