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Give Nature a Break
Edgar Honetschläger

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  • Edgar Honetschläger, Give Nature a Break. Film Performance for the NGO gobugsgo.org, 2022
  • Edgar Honetschläger, NON-HUMAN ZONE in Linz, 2025
  • Edgar Honetschläger, from the series Sensing Soil, 1989
  • Edgar Honetschläger, Plakat for GoBugsGo, 2018
  • Edgar Honetschläger/Willi Mahringer, Chicken Erni in Chickenssuit®, Hairy model, 2005

The Nordico is dedicating a comprehensive solo exhibition to the visual artist, filmmaker and environmental activist Edgar Honetschläger. His artistic œuvre has already received recognition through numerous art and culture awards in Austria, Japan and Italy, and has been presented at documenta X and the Berlinale. His work embraces a wide spectrum from drawing, painting and photography to performance, installation, short films and feature films.


Born in Linz, Honetschläger has been using multimedia to explore the dichotomy between man and nature since the 1980s. Subtly critical, while at the same time displaying a poetic and humorous quality, he uses surprising perspectives to question conventional perceptions. For Honetschläger, it simply is not enough for art to address the ongoing environmental crisis in terms of mere aesthetics. As an artist, he sees himself duty bound to take concrete action.


In 2018, as a response to the catastrophic impact of the Anthropocene, Honetschläger founded GoBugsGo – Set Nature Free, a non-profit organisation (NGO), thereby developing a groundbreaking, all-encompassing approach that combines art with environmental activism. This international project initiates collective renaturalisation measures designed to help insects regain their habitats. As a utopian artistic vision, zones are created from which humankind is excluded. In addition to a hundred works, including large-format film backdrops, a Non-Human Zone” – a living sculpture of the 21st century” – is also a central element of the exhibition in Linz.


Curator: Sabine Fellner

Date Title Time
Sun 15.06Public guided tours through the current exhibitions of the Nordico

Duration 60 minutes, max. 25 people, guided tour ticket € 4 (plus admission) No registration required (“first-come-first-served”)

2:30 pm–3:30 pm
Sun 22.06Public guided tours through the current exhibitions of the Nordico

Duration 60 minutes, max. 25 people, guided tour ticket € 4 (plus admission) No registration required (“first-come-first-served”)

2:30 pm–3:30 pm
Sun 29.06Public guided tours through the current exhibitions of the Nordico

Duration 60 minutes, max. 25 people, guided tour ticket € 4 (plus admission) No registration required (“first-come-first-served”)

2:30 pm–3:30 pm
Thu 03.07Summer party

We celebrate summer on the blossoming forecourt of the Nordico with music, food and drink.

7:00 pm–10:00 pm
Sun 06.07Public guided tours through the current exhibitions of the Nordico

Duration 60 minutes, max. 25 people, guided tour ticket € 4 (plus admission) No registration required (“first-come-first-served”)

2:30 pm–3:30 pm
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The artist’s book Give Nature a Break” is published by Anton Pustet, Salzburg. Graphic: Willi Schmid. Edited by Edgar Honetschläger with contributions by Andrea Bina, Eduardo Cicelyn, Sabine Fellner, Edgar Honetschläger, Patrick Holzapfel, Christl Lieben and Dominique Zimmermann. 


240 pages, german

€34Visit shop

Interview with Edgar Honetschläger at the Exhibition Opening

Cooperation Crossing Europe

The Crossing Europe Film Festival (29.4. – 4.5.) is dedicating a special to Edgar Honetschläger as a local artist, which thematically ties in with the Personale at the Nordico. 

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