Blooming Panic! 

What happens when Maria Sibylla Merian meets a caterpillar that’s simply had enough of human nonsense? No more dissecting, separating, isolating – back to what makes us animals and living beings in a wonderful natural world… diversity, complexity, multiplicity, packs, fucking, eating, licking, pissing and shitting.

The Very Hungry Caterpillar has left her sheltered upbringing behind and won’t put up with any more nonsense! At the Kunsthaus Graz, it finally speaks her mind and turns out to be an uncompromising creature. Those who are well-behaved – and those who aren’t – get a present!

Artists Denise Palmieri, Larissa Kopp and Florian Aschka respond to Helen Chadwick’s exhibition with humour and gusto, tackling big themes with big caterpillars and plenty of humour on artist Liesl Raff’s stage sculpture.