For anyone who is not quite in the know, the huge sculptures and abstract reliefs by Hans Josephsohn (1920–2012) do not necessarily represent a recumbent figure or persons in a space. Yet the titles of the groups of works clearly point to the human form, and impressions of the artist’s fingers can still be made out in the bronze casts of his works. The human figure has also been inscribed into Katinka Bock’s objects (*1976), for example, through the length of the limbs, the span of the arms. Fabian Marti’s huge photograms, video and objects (*1979) connote a purely aesthetic delight in form, although it is evident that they are all made by hand – what is more, by the artist himself. What is common to all three positions, over generations and irrespective of the medium, are the haptic quality, the earnestness and the human scale. The exhibition title quotes a short story by Wolfgang Hildesheimer, who captures the absurdities of human life in a sober idiom. Yet the main focus is on man with all his limitations, but also with his longing to overcome them.