Most of the works Elina Brotherus appropriates are relatively simple and contain an ironic element right from the outset. For example, the Danish composer and Fluxus artist Henning Christiansen’s idea of painting one of his ears green (as well as those of all customers at a selected hair salon) in order to ‘listen to nature’ is a teasingly banal way of depicting a green awareness of nature and the environment, but also a strong call for us all to direct our attention along new channels, listening to the world as music. When Brotherus repeats this gesture in the work Das grüne Ohr 2 (2017), this is simultaneously an homage to the work and a shift in its meaning.