Daniela Köppl

In contrast to natural landscapes, cultural landscapes represent environments shaped by humans, formed through centuries-old practices such as farming, mowing, grazing, and long-term forestry. In her collection 'KUPPEN', Daniela Köppl presents current excerpts of Upper Austrian cultural landscapes. The photographer documents the characteristics of seasonal agricultural uses and hints at the immense decline in biodiversity in cultural landscapes due to the industrialization of agriculture. Through the consistent repetition of compositional rules, she focuses on the themes of clearing, impoverishment, and reduction. This provokes a confrontation with the use of land as the basis of human nourishment. At the same time, it invites the viewer to think curiously and openly about what might lie beyond the hill.