Art Trail Traces of Man

Since May 2002, an art trail has begun opposite the museum and runs almost 2,000 metres along the Düssel. The artist and curator Volker Marten has succeeded in attracting 11 sculptors of international standing to the Neander Valley. Works by Magdalena Abakanowicz, Zadok Ben-David, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Antony Gormley, Volker Friedrich Marten, Nils-Udo, Giuseppe Penone, Jaume Plensa, Anne and Patrick Poirier and Klaus Simon will be shown. With their "alien gaze", they open up completely new perspectives on the significance of the Neander Valley. The art trail "MenschenSpuren" is dedicated to the field of tension between man and nature. With the beginning of humanity, man has tried to gradually step out of nature and find an independent position. Through the works of the eleven artists, this process is made visible in very different ways and can be experienced by visitors. The sculptures challenge self-reflection on human nature and at the same time require a new way of looking at nature.