Planet Ocean
Planet Ocean presents the fascinating beauty of the world's oceans and their diverse life forms. The innovative show will take visitors to the largely unknown depths of this complex ecosystem.
Photo: Blauhai, Tobias Friedrich
Photo: Großer Fetzenfisch und Australischer Seelöwe, Scott Portelli
Photo: „Net loss“, Audun Rikardsen
Photo: Spitzohren-Enope-Tintenfisch, Simone Matucci
From the Coasts to the Deep Sea
Throughout various sections of exhibition, the Gasometer will show our planet’s oceans with the help of large-format photographs and films, some never publicly seen before. There is direct eye contact with a blue shark, a harlequin octopus dancing merrily through Mayotte’s lagoon or a cute sea lion observing an artfully camouflaged leafy seadragon. In contrast, Audun Rikardsen's picture "Net loss" of a torn fishing net losing its catch and flooding the water with dead fish documents the consequences of human use of the world's oceans as a source of energy, transportation route or food source.
Consequently, "Planet Ocean" also deals with the important areas of marine protection and research. For this purpose, the new show is supported by the German Oceanographic Museum, an experienced partner whose scientific expertise forms the foundation of the content. Thanks to state-of-the-art technologies, it is now possible to record the constant changes in our oceans in detail. The Gasometer Oberhausen conveys these data volumes with the "Ocean Twin": the twin of the world's oceans developed by the Environmental Systems Research Institute (Esri for short) is an interactive globe that visualises the latest findings as a geographical information network.
Underwater World Immersion
"Notes from the seafloor", a feature specially developed for the new exhibition and located in the middle of the ground floor, will immerse visitors in unique worlds of sound. Here the popping, crackling, crunching and rapping sounds of thousands of tiny crustaceans, living coral reefs or a shoal of cod can be heard. The sensual sound journey through the oceans begins in the North Sea and was orchestrated by natural sound recording specialist Chris Watson, sound artist Tony Myatt, as well as lighting artist Theresa Baumgartner.
The dramatic highlight of the new show Planet Ocean is the immersive production "The Wave" developed by the creative minds behind the art and technology festival Ars Electronica in Linz, Austria. Oversized 40 metre high and 18 metre L-shaped screens installed in the Gasometer’s impressively high gallery serve as projection surfaces for a photo-realistic animated ocean world. Without diving suits and oxygen masks, visitors can experience life-sized whales, fish and even jellyfish.
Planet Ocean will be on show in the Oberhausen Gasometer from 15’th March to 30’th November 2025.
Tickets for the exhibition are available at the entrance or via the Online-Ticket-Shop.
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