Norbert Pümpel began creating his entropic drawings in the mid 1970s. As a keen researcher in the fundamentals of art and science, he deals with complex scientific issues. Pümpel‘s works are an expression of the artist’s views on current sociopolitical developments – his ‘Scientific Disaster works, in particular, address the question of the ethical responsibility of scientific research. With his large-format work ‘Die Moderne taugt nicht zwingend zur Verbesserung der Welt’ (Modernity is not necessarily good at making the world a better place), the artist delivers a clear statement against a naive belief in progress and scientific fantasies of omnipotence.

The latest photographic works are staged snapshots and subtle interpretations of his sculptures – momentary representations of spatio-temporal scenes.