The early stages of the research were carried out during a commission by the Cumbria Museum Consortium and culminated in solo exhibitions at Abbot Hall, Wordsworth Trust and Tullie House Museum (2015). The research situated itself in response to two aspects of the Lake District represented in the museum’s collections: In the first instance, the region as an epitome of conceptions of the picturesque. Kögelsberger responded by looking for alternative ways of understanding the landscape - literally going beneath the surface of the earth, to reveal its longstanding history of industrial exploitation.

Secondly the research took the impact of climate change in North West England as manifested through the increase in rainfall as the starting point to develop a non-representational understanding of landscape, questioning modes of representation that re-enforce established hierarchies of perceiving the natural world, by introducing elements such as chance, and non-human centric perspectives.