Pulse:
Earthly Fabulations

Der Greif launched today the online exhibition “Earthly Fabulations”, running from 22 April, 2026. The "Earth Day 2026" open call we launched, invited lens-based artists to deconstruct the traditional and colonial history of landscape photography by engaging with the intersectional and systemic realities of our planet.

This online exhibition stems from ecocritical literature practices, examining the parallel histories of environmental exploitation while rooting artistic practice in a commitment to understanding and living in harmony with the specificities of local geographic regions and beyond. “Earthly Fabulations” moves on to speculative and critical fabulations. To fabulate is to bridge the gap between the archive and the imagination, surfacing voices and histories that have been historically erased by a human-centric, extractive (Western) gaze imposing itself on the other, particularly the non-human.

The twelve single images gathered in “Earthly Fabulations” act as a digital circuit of narratives pulsing with the necessity of ecological kinship. Read more about the featured positions here and explore the full series in our Artist Features. If you resonate with this topic, apply by June 20, 2026 to our current open call for Der Greif issue 19, guest edited by Zanele Muholi with the support of Alexander Tutsek-Stiftung!