Welcome: Dr. Roger Diederen
© Kunsthalle München, Photo: Robert Haas

Ned Seidler, Map of the Origin of Flowers on Earth, 1968
© Ned Seidler, courtesy of National Geographic

Marianne North, Furcraea foetida on a Mountain Path, c. 1880
Photo © Board of Trustees, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

Marianne North, Canna indica, c. 1880
Photo © Board of Trustees, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

Marianne North, Banksias from Tasmania, c. 1880
Photo © Board of Trustees, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

Marianne North, Sterculia from Mexico, c. 1880
Photo © Board of Trustees, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

Philipp Franz von Siebold / Joseph Gerhard Zuccharini, Hydrangea belzonii (hydrangea)
Photo © Botanische Staatssammlung München – SNSB

Philipp Franz von Siebold / Joseph Gerhard Zuccharini, Rosa rugosa (hedgerow rose)
Photo © Botanische Staatssammlung München – SNSB

Philipp Franz von Siebold / Joseph Gerhard Zuccharini, Rhododendron metternichii (Rhododendron)
Photo © Botanische Staatssammlung München – SNSB

Philipp Franz von Siebold / Joseph Gerhard Zuccharini, Illicium religiosum (star anise)
Photo © Botanische Staatssammlung München – SNSB

Andreas Gursky, Untitled XIX, 2015
© Andreas Gursky / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2022, courtesy the artist and Sprüth Magers Berlin / London / Los Angeles

George Hitchcock Among the Haarlem Tulips, c. 1895
Photo © bpk / Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden / Elke Estel / Hans Peter Klut

Édouard Théophile Blanchard, Narcissus, n. d.
Photo © bpk / RMN – Grand Palais / Patrice Schmidt

Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Venus Verticordia, 1864–1868
Photograph reproduced with the kind permission of the Russel Art Gallery & Museum, Bournemouth

Hans Jakob II Wild, Monstrance, 1686
Photo © Archiv Wolf-Christian von der Mülbe

Unknown (Egypt), Stela of Nena, c. 1300 B.C.
Photo © Staatliches Museum Ägyptischer Kunst, München, ÄS 51, Photographer: Roy Hessing

Unknown (Achaemenian), Achaemenian Silver Cup, 400–350 B.C.
Photo © Staatliche Antikensammlungen und Glyptothek München, Photographer: Renate Kühling

Unknown (Japan), Amida Buddha (Amitabha), 16th/17th c.
Photo © Museum Fünf Kontinente, München

Fariborz Sahba, Lotus Temple, 1986
© Fariborz Sahba, Photo © Charles Nolley

Girolamo Pini, Botanical Studies, 17th c.
Photo © Les Arts Décoratifs / Jean Tholance

Royal Porcelain Manufactory Berlin / Ernst Sager, Empire Table, 1826
Photo © Wittelsbacher Ausgleichsfonds, München, Inv.-Nr. M III a 564, Fotograf: Anton Brandl

Maria Sibylla Merian, The Caterpillars' Miraculous Transformation and Strange Floral Food, 1679/1683
Photo © Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München, Photographer: Gunnar Gustafsson

Patricia Kaersenhout, Of Palimpsests and Erasure, 2021
© Patricia Kaersenhout

Herman Doomer, Tulip Cabinet, c. 1635-1650
Photo © Tom Haartsen

Jan Brueghel the Younger, Satire on the Tulip Mania, c. 1640
Photo © Tom Haartsen

Abraham Mignon, Vase with Flowers, c. 1665
Photo © Studio Tromp

Manufacture Jules Desfossé / Édouard Müller, The Garden of Armida, 1854
Side panels: Photo © Les Arts Décoratifs / Jean Tholance; Middle panel: Photo © Les Arts Décoratifs / Christophe Dellière

Émile Gallé, Les Lumineuses Vase with Verse by Victor Hugo, c. 1899
Photo © Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, Fotografin: Maria Thrun

Lucien Gaillard, Hairpin, c. 1902–1905
Photo © Bayerisches Nationalmuseum

René Lalique, Hairpin, c. 1902/03
Photo © Bayerisches Nationalmuseum

Lawrence Alma-Tadema, The Roses of Heliogabalus, 1888
Photo © Studio Sébert Photographes

Charlotte de Latour (actually Louise Cortambert), Le langage des fleurs (The Language of Flowers), 1819
Photo © Kunsthalle München

Edward Burne-Jones / William Morris, The Pilgrim in the Garden or The Heart of the Rose, design pre-1896, execution 1901
Photo © Badisches Landesmuseum, Fotograf: Thomas Goldschmidt

Hannah Höch, Holland, 1942
©Hannah Höch / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2022, Photo © Jürgen Seidel

Owanto, Flowers I 2/4, 2018
© Owanto, Photo © Sammlung Vilsmeier – Linhares, München

Jennifer Tee, Tampan Ship of Souls, 2016
© Jennifer Tee, Photo © Rabo Art Collection, Utrecht, The Netherlands, courtesy Gallery Fons Welters

Porcelain Manufactory Meissen, Selection of Three Vases from a Seven-Piece Vase Set, c. 1730-1735
Photo © Bayerisches Nationalmuseum

Unknown (Tibet), Sleeping Rug, mid-19th c.
Photo © Bernd Ratzke

Unknown (Tibet), Sleeping Rug, 2nd half 19th c.
Photo © Bernd Ratzke

Andy Warhol, Flowers (Print from Portfolio of 10 Screen Prints, Ed. 82/250), 1970
© 2022 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. / Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, Photo © Sammlung Klüser, München

Andy Warhol, The Velvet Underground – Screen Test: Falling in Love with the Falling Spikes, 1985
© 2022 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. / Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, Photo © Udo und Anette Brandhorst Sammlung

Andy Warhol, The Velvet Underground – Screen Test: Falling in Love with the Falling Spikes, 1987
© 2022 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. / Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, Photo © Udo und Anette Brandhorst Sammlung

LIL-Moden, Wilhelm Häuser & Co., Düsseldorf, Dress, c. 1967/69
Photo © Münchner Stadtmuseum

Unknown, Jumpsuit, c. 1973/75
Photo © Münchner Stadtmuseum

Sven Simon, Soldiers with Carnations in their Gunbarrels, 1974
© Fotoagentur Sven Simon

Kapwani Kiwanga, The Marias, 2021
© Kapwani Kiwanga / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2022, installation view, An apology, a pill, a ritual, a resistance, Remai Modern, Saskatoon, 2021, Photo © Blaine Campbell; Collection Remai Modern (purchased with the support of theFrank and Ellen Remai Foundation, 2021); Institut d՚Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne; Maja Hoffmann / Luma Foundation, courtesy the artist and Galerie Poggi, Paris / Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, Cape Town, London / Galerie Tanja Wagner, Berlin

Rebecca Louise Law, Calyx, 2023
© Rebecca Louise Law