Kirsten Klein (born 1945) is one of Denmark's most celebrated contemporary art photographers. For more than thirty years she has been photographing nature, usually finding her motifs on the west coast of Jutland and the Island of Mors in Limfjord. Other landscape images stem from the artist's extended travels in northern Europe, Ireland and America. When choosing her motifs, Klein avoids urban centres and instead sets out in search of the remains of wild, untouched nature. Light and shadow phenomena in the sky, cloud formations, migrating birds, the vast expanses of the sea and coastal landscapes, turbulent eddies and thundering waves are ...

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Amsterdam-based photographer and video artist Fiona Tan (born 1966) has been a central figure on the contemporary art scene since the 1990s. In her video News from the Near Future (2003) a collage of historic film and audio material tells of man's ambivalent relationship with water as a force of nature. Drawing on the archives of the Amsterdam Film Museum, Tan composed a narrative crescendo starting off with idyllic impressions of the watery world and building to increasingly menacing scenarios of an unleashed nature. Images of floods and churning seas, of wild winds and storms, parade before our eyes the destructive force of water. Traged...

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