For living systems Earth has been the primary environment for eons. Climatic changes or other shifts in the information flow have resulted in the rise and fall of thousands of species over time. Now the human species faces existential threats arising from environmental transformation, overpopulation, climate change, terraforming, diminishing resources, and shortages in the energy, food and water supply. Human systems create and use new technologies as tools of social evolution. We now live in…

Galería Juan Silió is proud to presend the second solo exhibition of berlin based artist Michael Najjar. The focus of his work is on key elements of our modern society driven and controlled by computer and information technologies. Najjar, widely seen as a visual futurist, transmutes science, history and philosophy into visions and utopias of future social structures emerging under the impact of cutting-edge technologies. Michael Najjar's current outer spa…

high altitude Michael Najjar www.michaelnajjar.com The spectacle of elemental forces at play in vast mountain panoramas has been an enduring source of fascination for people, and especially artists, across the ages. In his latest work series "high altitude", the German photographic artist Michael Najjar draws an astonishingly fresh visual comparison between the forces of nature and those of the human economy by fusing the world�…