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title: "Now at the SCHIRN: Plastic World"
date: 2023-06-28
url: "https://www.schirn.de/en/schirnmag/soon-at-the-schirn-plastic-world-plastic-world-2023-context-en/"
description: "The SCHIRN is dedicating a large thematic exhibition to the eventful history of plastic in visual art for the first time. The exhibition makes clear how plastic as a 
successful, multifaceted material has gone in its brief history from being an embodiment of  progress, modernity, a utopian spirit, and a democratization of consumption to being a threat to the environment."
image: "https://www.schirn.de/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Header_Schirn_Presse_Gino_Marotta_Eden_Artificiale.jpg"
language: "en-US"
---

# Now at the SCHIRN: Plastic World