After Landscape is a series of paintings on protective glass that reconstruct climate actions against famous landscape motifs. We understand these actions as part of an ongoing cultural re-negotiation of the relationship between humans and nature.

Historically, landscape painting precedes the concept of landscape itself. The word ‘landscape’ was imported from Dutch landscape painting, and it took several decades before the meaning also referred to landscape views outside of art. Unlike the iconoclasms of previous centuries, recent attacks on landscape motifs have not reached the paintings themselves but have stopped at the protective glass, also known as the ‘climate frame’. As such, they attack the very frame of what we see when we look at landscape.

The work of reconstructing these climate frames is carried out by painting conservator Fernando Caceres and based on the different museums’ own documentation of each attack. In the case of organic materials—such as pea soup, tomato soup, and mashed potatoes—preservatives have been added to guarantee longterm conservation. Four works have been realized in this series to date: After the Artist’s Garden in Giverny (2024), After Sower at Sunset (2025), After Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers (2025), and After Granistacks (2025).

The After Landscape series was developed as part of a residency at The Anthropocene Laboratory at The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 2024. The works were first exhibited in Flare-Up at Accelerator in 2025.

Review:

Stahre, Ulrika. ”Klimatprotestens mos gör mig på gott humör”, Aftonbladet, March 13, 2025.