Meat polarizes. What is a city festival, a barbecue or a visit to a restaurant without steak or sausage? Since industrialization, meat has not only meant pleasure and status, it has also become cheap and commonplace. But in the quantities we consume, it is unhealthy and also dramatically harmful to our planet.

The first chapter of the exhibition explores the question of why and since when meat has been so closely linked to our cooking and eating habits.
The second asks about animals as “products”. Is it okay that we see living creatures as “products”? In any case, public criticism is growing.
The third part deals with the central question of price. Should everyone be able to afford meat? How fair are our prices? And what else does eating meat cost?
Finally, the last chapter is dedicated to in vitro meat. For a few years now, there has been hope that we could grow meat cells in the laboratory in the future, without animal suffering and environmental pollution. Is this the liberating solution?

The - partly interactive - exhibition shows pictures and objects on these questions. Visitors will also encounter video statements from scientists and everyday experts. These include Karen Duve, who reports on her year-long self-experiment to 'eat properly', and Stefan Michel, who argues that certain meats are good for the climate.

Numerous works of art are also integrated. Henk Wildschut, for example, tries to photograph factory farming in a way that does justice to animals and animal owners. As a vegetarian, Pascal Dreier deals with his omnivorous girlfriend and develops a “cross-species mourning”. After all, eating meat is a “rendezvous with death” - the title of a work by Dieter Roth. Marije Vogelzang therefore proposes vegan alternatives made from invented animals, while Hartmut Kiewert creates visual worlds in which animals and humans picnic peacefully and happily together.

With artworks by: Ute Bartel, Michael von Brentano, Pieter Brueghel, Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries, Pascal Dreier, Paul Gong, Robert Häusser, Hörner/ Antlfinger, Andrea Jäggi-Staudacher, Madame d'Ora, Hartmut Kiewert, Jochen Lempert, Max Liebermann, Peter Menzel, Neozoon, Dieter Roth, Chloé Rutzerveld, Kyoko Takemura, Marije Vogelzang, Silvia Wald, Henk Wildschut, Wu.
As well as statements by: Karen Duve, Dr. Arianna Ferrari, Dr. Olayinka Kareem, Dr. Amelie Michalke, Stefan Michel, Dr. Friederike Schmitz, Dr. Marcel Sebastian, Philipp Sontag.
Curator: Dr. Isabel Greschat