In his artistic work, Adriano Amaral explores materialities, time, and spaces, creating complex, immersive, and transformative landscapes that become sensually tangible. This transformation is not only physical but also symbolic in nature and questions the permanence of meaning in content and form. His practice is based on an intuitive and pluralistic approach. Numerous dichotomies – natural/artificial, abstract/figurative, material/immaterial, ecology/technology – play a role. Particularly interesting is that new hybrid forms and contents continually emerge, allowing for new perspectives in their juxtaposition.

His installations push viewers into the boundary between the absurd and the familiar. The exhibition questions to what extent it is possible for us today to break out of rigid thought patterns and attempt to understand the environment that surrounds us in its transformation.

With its annual program "Versumpfung" (2024–2025), the Arnsberg Art Association investigates how changing ecosystems manifest in artistic practice. In addition to a selection of new and existing works by established and emerging visual artists, artists from various disciplines as well as ecologists and activists are invited to create an artistic sensitivity and imagination for an ecological past, present, and future. With this project, the art association aims to bring the principle of bogs and marshes as an ecological strategy into public consciousness.