Andreas Greiner. What can art tell us about life that science cannot?
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For this eighth episode, we welcome Berlin based artist Andreas Greiner. His art draws on biology, biotechnology, and questions the impact of humans on other living forms. After studying medicine, anatomy and sculpture he focuses on time-based and sculptural art works.The content of his work focuses on the anthropogenic influence on nature’s evolution and form. He is part of the artist collectives A / A and Das Numen.
Monument for the 308, installation view, Berlinische Galerie, 2016, photo by Theo BitzerMonument for the 308, installation view, Berlinische Galerie, 2016, photo by Theo BitzerHeinrich - craniocervical, 2015, portrait of Heinrich and contract with the petting zooHeinrich, 2015, Heinrich at the petting zoo eating with other chickenMonument For The 308, 2016, The original chicken is x-rayed for the 3D rendering of its skeletonMars on Earth, A graph in this work compares the energy equivalent of the lignite mined in 2010 in Germany with the energy consumed by NASA’s thirteen-year Apollo program, deduced from its monetary cost, photo by Jens Ziehe, courtesy of Dittrich and SchlechtriemJungle Memory 0001, image created with an AI trained on many thousands of forest images, photo by Jens Ziehe, courtesy of Dittrich and Schlechtriem880, In 2017 an average German person produced 11.3 tons of carbon dioxide. This quantity could be offset and transformed into biomass by 880 average beech trees living for one year, photo by Jens Ziehe, courtesy of Dittrich and Schlechtriem
