The new series by the Italian photographer Paolo Pellegrin (*1964) presents to us the stunning natural beauty of the antarctic ice shield, which is simultaneously a site of human-made crisis. The large-scale works on display portray a seemingly intact environment, but at closer observation reveal the eminent danger of being lost to global warming. Pellegrin photographed the antarctic ice fields and glaciers from within a surveying airplane, that is NASA's annual IceBridge aerial expediti…

Bildhalle turns five! At the occasion of the summer party, the gallery introduces its new artists: Renato D'Agostin: a Venetian from New York Carolle Bénitah: a Moroccan from Marseille Sissi Farassat: an Iranian from Vienna Daniel Schwartz: a cosmopolitan from Switzerland Paolo Pellegrin: an Italian from Geneva and Flor Garduño from Mexico.