Dwindling glaciers and polar ice caps, rising sea levels and entire land areas reduced to steppes: the repercussions of the climate crisis have long become visible. The publication for the exhibition Nach uns die Sintflut has chosen to use the resources of art to highlight the urgency of the issue. Through photography and video, twenty international artists illustrate the ecological consequences of our growth-orientated economic system. Their works from the past ten years were often created as a result of in-depth research and close collaboration with scientists. They lend a visual form to the abstract processes and complex correlations of the climate crisis and move us at an emotional level. The essays examine in detail the global climate crisis and the role of art as well as the history of ecological thinking and Karl Marx’s philosophy of nature.