A cargo bike used as a mobile mediator for an exhibition? This idea sounds crazy at first, but the art and urban nature exhibition Kiel (re)connecting.earth Beyond Water in Kiel has shown how well this can work.
In summer 2024, the exhibition “WAND”, conceived by Olaf Holzapfel in collaboration with the German Federal Environment Agency (UBA), will open its doors in Dessau. This multifaceted project combines contemporary art with traditional craft techniques. Through an artistic installation…
Innovation and creativity come together in the fight against climate change through the Creative Climate Leadership (CCL) Switzerland program, which will take place from March 3rd to 8th in Morschach.
A look back at a participatory concept developed to raise awareness of urban nature. The Biennial of Art and Urban Nature (re)connecting.earth (02) - Beyond Water and the works that provoke reconnection with nature in the city.
How often do you eat animal-based products? What is your favorite kind of trash to recycle? According to your personal preference, what is the optimal temperature for a museum during winter?
During the second edition of the Biennale de l'Art et la Nature Urbaine, volunteers from different backgrounds and training were motivated by art-werk's missions and values, which focus on artistic and ecological issues. From assemblage to micro-mediation, from documentation to disassembling,…
The (re)connecting.earth (02) - Beyond Water Biennial, held in Geneva in September, came to a close with an event that summarized several of the challenges related to culture, science, urban nature, and reconnecting with the natural world that the Biennial aimed to address.
At the Biennial of Art and Urban Nature (re)connecting.earth in Geneva, artist Alexandre Joly invites us to enjoy an immersive experience, where listening becomes a veritable sensory symphony.
"What kind of weird advert is this?" wondered passers-by on the streets of Kreuzberg when they spotted the graphically expressive posters of the exhibition (re)connecting.earth 01. Urban Gardening Berlin..
We encounter the city's life on every corner, while shopping, on the street or on the train. Even when we are supposedly alone at night, we never are. There is always a light burning in some house. Sometimes we can see a shadow behind a curtain. A person sitting on the sofa or preparing…
The Chinese artist Zheng Bo is connected to Taoist thinking not only in his life but also in his works. His commissioned work "Drawing Weeds Practice" was exhibited in Berlin at the project space Kurt-Kurt and in the allotment gardens of Habsburg-Gaußstraße as part of the exhibition…
Leviathan: A Capitalocene Beastiarium is a research-based exhibition project, which unpacks “human nature” and “law of nature”, inspired by Thomas Hobbes book Leviathan (1651)1 and Capitalocene, a concept coined by Jason W. Moore and Donna Haraway.
Zheng Bo’s biography and artistic practice give insight on his experience between the U.S., mainland China, and Hong Kong. Experiencing different political environments, he developed a practice oriented towards social engaged art and nearly a decade ago added a main focus on botany…
From Dada to more recent socially engaged artwork, the twentieth century has seen a radical transformation in the role of the viewer. No longer just the passive spectator of an exhibition, the visitor has become a co-producer of the work, and sometimes even the medium itself.
Is entering an art exhibition or watching a performance sometimes similar to stepping into a church?
Als Teil einer neuen Generation von ökologischen Künstlern zeigt Greiner, dass Kunst Information verdichten und neue Arten von Darstellungen finden kann, die die Betrachter prägen. Anders gesagt, Andreas Greiners Ausstellung ist eine Möglichkeit die durch die Informationsflut ausgelöste…
Social and economic issues are not directly the subject matter, but they form the physical boundaries within which I can be creative - Hunter Longe in interview
How efficient is art as a tool for the production of alternative forms of knowledge?
Interview "Soft Rains / Futurs Incertains"
We can’t really credit science for fixing something it ruined, unless... - Thomas Moor in Interview
In her work "This Is Not Water", the artist Carolina Caycedo addresses the local effects of large-scale hydropower projects in South America. But how is this renewable energy source treated in times of the "Anthropocene"?
Will There Come Soft Rains? - with Carolina Caycedo