Water contamination, air pollution, and resource scarcity--considerable environmental problems have come to threaten all large industrial nations around the world.Based on the concrete example of the South Indian city of Chennai, the exhibition project DAMned Art: Embrace Our Rivers questions the possible social, political and ecological significance and function of art.The public art project in Chennai, curated by the Indian eco-activist and artist Ravi Agarwal and the German exhibition organiser Florian Matzner, is a cooperation between European and Indian artists and brings together more than a dozen future-oriented projects relating to the topic of 'art and ecology'.This accompanying publication presents these fascinating art projects by a group of artists, collectives and architects from Europe and India.Published after the exhibition, DAMned Art: Embrace Our Rivers at Lalit Kala Akademie, Chennai, India (2 February - 4 March 2018).