We warmly congratulate Andreas Greiner, Takafumi Tsukamoto, and Diogo D. C. Vale on the realization of ‘Neopteryx – A Monument to the Anthropocene‘  (2025), a monumental Kunst am Bau commission for the Friedrich-Loeffler-Institute in Mecklenhorst, Lower Saxony, Germany developed over four years with remarkable precision and urgency.

Drawing from the iconic Archaeopteryx fossil, ‘Neopteryx‘ confronts us with a disturbing contemporary counterpart: the Ross 308 chicken—an organism engineered by human demand, optimized for consumption, and pushed beyond the limits of its own biology. What appears at first as a relic of deep time reveals itself as a mirror of the present: accelerated, distorted, and unsustainable.

Standing as a monument to a “newest bird species,” the work powerfully embodies the paradoxes of the Anthropocene—where human ambition reshapes life itself, and progress leaves visible traces on bodies, ecologies, and geological time.

We congratulate the artists on this uncompromising and timely work, and on bringing such complex scientific, ethical, and aesthetic questions into public space with clarity and force.

Andreas Greiner with Takafumi Tsukamoto, and Diogo D. C. Vale
Neopteryx – A Monument to the Anthropocene
2025
CNC milled jurassic limestone blocks
360 x 280 x 50 cm
Unique

Photos: Roland Bolz, 2025