Cornelia Hesse-Honegger, Nach Chernobyl, 1996

Cornelia Hesse-Honegger
Nach Chernobyl, 1996

The Hancock Museum, Newcastle upon Tyne
19.07.1996 - 08.09.1996
Life/Live, Musee d'Art Moderne de la ville de Paris, France
05.10.1996 - 05.01.1997
Oxford University Museum of Natural History
23.11.1996 - 10.01.1997
Tullie House, Carlisle
30.11.1996 - 10.01.1997
CCA Glasgow
23.01.1997 - 08.03.1997
Leeds City Art Gallery
14.02.1997 - 05.04.1997 
Middlesbrough Art Gallery
12.04.1997 - 25.10.1997
The Yard Gallery, Woollaton Park, Nottingham
25.10.1997 - 16.11.1997
Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, Canada
06.08.1998 - 20.09.1998
Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada
10.10.1998 - 24.01.1999

In 1986 Hesse-Honegger began to document the effects of the fallout from the Chernobyl disaster in the Ukraine, making studies of insects affected by the radiation plume that spread across Europe. 

This study developed into a long term enquiry investigating and documenting in watercolour insects found on the perimeters of nuclear power stations including Sellafield in Cumbria, Three Mile Island in the USA and the Canton of Aargau in Switzerland.