A selection of ten films and videos by curator Marie-Nour Hechaime around notions of legality and judicial fictions.
Future Ecologies compilation, showing plants (Tumamoc Globeberry, Natal Ginger, Aframomum sulcatum, Northern Hawk’s beard) and artworks by Uriel Orlow, Louis Henderson, Charlotte Prodger and Ben Rivers at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh.
The biennial starts from the postulate proposed by Latour and Guinard that “people around the world no longer agree on what it means to live ‘on’ Earth”. Curated by Bruno Latour and Martin Guinard.
A contemporary art exhibition examining the connections between humankind and the environment through the works of five artists and one group all active in Japan and internationally. Curated by Oko Goto.
The artists in this exhibition illustrate principles of nature, give voices to plants from a wide range of different perspectives and testify to the extraordinary qualities of these creatures inextricably linked with our survival. Curated by Christiane Meyer-Stoll with Annett Höland, co-curator of the project space.
A lecture-performance Grey, Green, Gold (and Red) that develops the themes and concerns of the project Theatrum Botanicum (2015-2018), considering plants and gardens as active agents of history and politics.
WE ARE HERE is a series of five artists’ film programmes of compilations and installations curated by Tendai John Mutambu for the British Council and LUX, an international arts agency that supports and promotes artists’ moving image practices. Each programme is curated around a theme: national identity, marginality, intimacy, the future, and the archive. WE ARE HERE interrogates how outstanding emerging and established British or UK-based contemporary artists are influenced by these themes and how they explore them through biography, documentary, poetry and fiction.
The works by Charlotte Prodger, Louis Henderson, Ben Rivers and Uriel Orlow, composing the programme “Future Ecologies”, explore topics including traditional medicine in post-colonial contexts, the e-recycling of electrical appliances in Ghana to highlight, among other things, that minerals underpin technology, LGBTQI+ narratives, and future environments through a fictional monologue of a scientist living by herself in an artificial biosphere.
Research project and group exhibition about the notion of the exotic in Switzerland and elsewhere. Curated by Etienne Wismer and Noémie Etienne.
Interdisciplinary artistic event, which revolves each time around issues of great relevance for our time, hold in the Jugendstil architectural spaces of this old chocolate factory. The main objective of this cultural festival, artistically directed by Elio Schenini, is to bring together artists who represent the most diverse artistic disciplines in the somewhat secluded but close contact with the nature of this disused industrial building, in this way offering the public the occasion to reflect on the important themes that concern mankind and its relationship with the world.
Shipwrecks and visions
The heart of the festival that gives the title to this year’s edition, is an exhibition featuring the works of a series of contemporary artists, including some prominent figures on the international scene. Among the artists on display: Julius von Bismarck, Oppy De Bernardo, Gysin & Vanetti, Uriel Orlow, Adrian Paci, Marco Poloni, Reto Rigassi, Simon Starling, Costa Vece and Bill Viola.
RIBOCA2: and suddenly it all blossoms grew out of the urge to change our way of inhabiting the world through reaching out to other voices, sensibilities, and ways of making relationships. As an alternative to the deluge of hopeless narratives, the notion of re-enchantment became a frame for building desirable presents and futures, where the end of “a” world does not mean “the end of the world”. The present global circumstances resonate dramatically with the project and its urgent call for reinvention. Curated by Rebecca Lamarche-Vadel.
Group show curated by Giulia Lamoni and Vanessa Badagliacca.
In 1981, the American feminist art magazine Heresies dedicated its 13th edition to the relationships between feminism and ecology. Entitled “Earthkeeping / Earthshaking”, this edition featured contributions from authors of various nationalities, including art critic Lucy Lippard, artists Ana Mendieta, Faith Wilding, Bonnie Ora Sherk, Cecilia Vicuña and Michelle Stuart, as well as writer Gioconda Belli. Departing from the question “What can women do about the disastrous direction the world is taking?”, Heresies #13 intended to question the relationship between feminisms and ecology from multiple perspectives. Taking Heresies #13 as a starting point and as a historical and political archive capable of stimulating a fertile reflection on the triangulation between art, ecology and feminisms, the exhibition Earthkeeping / Earthshaking aims to affirm the pioneering role played by numerous artists in this specific context and, at the same time, analyse the potential of their ideas today.
A cabinet of ephemeral works, drafts and concepts, that are often not included in gallery exhibitions but are part of the daily practice in most artists’ studios shown at new space in Zurich.
For a long time the reactions of Earth to our human actions remained unnoticed, but in recent times with the protest movement Fridays for Future climate crisis has moved into public consciousness. The thought exhibition »CRITICAL ZONES« invites us to deal with the CRITICAL situation of the Earth in various ways and to explore new modes of coexistence between all forms of life. Curatorial Team: Bruno Latour, Peter Weibel, Martin Guinar, Bettina Korintenberg
To mark the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, Mikhail Karikis and Uriel Orlow’s evocative film Sounds from Beneath will be available online for 72 hours.
For this piece, Karikis asked the Snowdown Colliery Male Voice Choir in Kent, UK to vocalise the industrial sounds of a former coalmine based on their memories. The result is a moving ode to an extinct landscape; the industrial chimes and low rumbling hummings attaining a meditative quality as the performance progresses. The miners tell a wordless story of the strength, loss and resolve of a community built through work and song.
Arter presents an online selection of video works from 15 April to 15 May 2020. Entitled #playathome, the selection features eight videos related to sound and/or music in various performative ways.
Selected from the Arter Collection to be played at home, these works explore the potential of sound to trespass physical boundaries and its ability to offer alternative ways to communicate, manifest, traverse and transgress.
With works by Annika Kahrs, Cevdet Erek, Mikhail Karikis & Uriel Orlow, Sarkis, Ali Mahmut Demirel, Sophia Pompéry, Ayşe Erkmen, Nevin Aladağ.
A group exhibition directly concerned with taking up political positions and engaging in interventions, ground work and various forms of activism. With works by Paloma Ayala, Baltensperger + Siepert, Daniela Brugger, Luke Ching, Chto Delat, Enar de Dios Rodríguez, Harun Farocki, Jeff Hong, Marc Lee, Yoshinori Niwa, Dima Nechawi, Mohamad Omran, Uriel Orlow, Ursula Palla, ” le peuple qui manque – a people is missing (Kantuta Quiros, Aliocha Imhoff), Robert Schlicht + Romana Schmalisch, Jonas Staal.
And with participation of the activist and cultural groups: Architecture for Refugees Schweiz, Autonome Schule Zürich, The Creative Memory of The Syrian Revolution, Love Lazers, Libreria delle Donne, foodwaste.ch/OGG Bern, Progetto Oreste, Stadtlücken, Video Activism, Warsaw Biennial, Who writes his_tory ?, The Media Office of Kafranbel.
Solo exhibition.
In Learning from Artemisia at La Loge, Orlow explores plant healing and global power relations through Artemisia afra, the African wormwood, an indigenous medicinal plant cultivated in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, alongside other African countries, and used for the treatment of malaria. Despite its proven effectiveness and simplicity, the World Health Organization does not recommend the use of this plant material, in any form, including tea, for the treatment or the prevention of malaria.
A series of events organised around the theme of Queer Ecologies, with contributions from artists, curators, theoreticians and activists on the shifting boundaries in the contemporary art world(s).
A group exhibition with works by Marwa Arsanios, Rossella Biscotti, Paz Errázuriz, Bouchra Khalili, Teresa Margolles, Carlos Motta, Uriel Orlow and Daniel Otero Torres