Artistic research on the urban transformation in the Basel Dreispitz area curated by Benedikt Wyss & Samuel Leuenberger with works by Deborah Joyce Holman & Yara Dulac Gisler, Pilar Quinteros & Patricio Blanche, Uriel Orlow, Puck Verkade.
Potential Agrarianisms sets out to diversify agriculture and pluralise its histories, recovering suppressed peasant pasts and activating their unrealised possibilities, destabilising urban-rural dichotomies, repairing the disconnect with the natural world and restoring caring and reciprocal relationships to the soils and plants that nourish us. Curated by Maja and Reuben Fowkes with work by Melanie Bonajo, Gerard Ortin Castellví, Anetta Mona Chişa, Annalee Davis, Ferenc Gróf with Jean-Baptiste Naudy, Oto Hudec, Marzia Migliora, MyVillages, Ilona Németh, Uriel Orlow, Prabhakar Pachpute, Alicja Rogalska.
The exhibition What the eyes cannot see, the heart cannot feel is dedicated to the coexistence of humans with their natural environment. Around the world, landscapes and ecosystems have been and are still being changed by human interventions, while languages and cultural techniques have evolved in direct response to landscapes, plants and soils. Curated by Christiane Mennicke-Schwarz, Vincent Schier with work by Aline Baiana, Minia Biabiany, Kadija de Paula & Chico Togni in collaboration with FELL, Patricia Esquivias, Andreas Kempe, Antje Majewski, Silvia Noronha, Uriel Orlow, Lois Weinberger.
The British Art Show is a landmark touring exhibition that celebrates the vitality of recent art made in Britain. British Art Show 9 was developed at a precarious moment in Britain’s history that has brought politics of identity and nation, concerns of social, racial and environmental justice, and questions of agency to the centre of public consciousness. The artists presented in the exhibition respond in critical ways to this complex context; imagining more hopeful futures and exploring new modes of resistance.
BAS9 is curated by Irene Aristizábal and Hammad Nasar and includes work by over 40 artists.
The Isle of Thorns is the fourth of six presentations of Future Ecologies being presented in the Western Balkans along with public events, curated by six curators from the region.
‘Speculating on themes explored by five UK artists in dialogue with five artists from Albania and Kosovo, The Isle of Thorns works towards contextualising FUTURE ECOLOGIES as a manifesto for a semi-fictional, symbolic transformation of the Island of Sazan, while also playing with the possibility of using fiction as a design tool.’ – Elian Stefa, curator
With works by Anna Ehrenstein with Saliou Ba, Donkafele, Nyamwathi Gichau, Lydia Likibi and Awa Seck, Louis Henderson, Niku Alex Muçaj, Uriel Orlow, Charlotte Prodger, Ben Rivers, Driton Selmani, Abi Shehu, Bedwyr Williams, Driant Zeneli.
Exhibition about gardens with work by Joseph Beuys, Helen Britton, John Cage, Candida Höfer, Max Liebermann, Katrīna Neiburga, Martin Parr and many others.
Human-environment relations are radically changing through the interventions of extractive industries and knowledge technologies. Against this background, the exhibition tests the critical dialogue between contemporary art and museum artifacts. Curated by Liliana Gómez, in cooperation with the University of Zurich, University of Kassel and the Documenta Institute.
Toxic Lands is the third of six presentations of Future Ecologies being presented in the Western Balkans along with public events, curated by six curators from the region.
‘Toxic Lands takes as a source of exploration the toxic narratives and destructive practices of the landscape system of the Neretva River and the city of Mostar.‘ – Armina Pilav, curator
Curated by Armina Pilav and produced in collaboration with Damir Ugljen, Un-war Space Lab collective, Association for Culture and Art Crvena from Sarajevo and Abraš Radio from Mostar.
With works by Andreja Dugandžić, Louis Henderson, Uriel Orlow, Charlotte Prodger, Ben Rivers, Dijana Zadro.
This show looks into plants as sources and carriers of knowledge, and explores more precisely how the unique knowledge flora is transmitted for centuries. Curated by Clelia Coussonnet and Tereza Jindrová.
Conflicts is the first of six exhibitions being presented in the Western Balkans along with screenings and public events, curated by six curators from the region.
‘Through conversations, visual artworks, sounds, stories and atmospheres, the exhibition traces the silhouette of a possible future.’ – Natalija Paunić, curator
With works by Louis Henderson, Šejla Kamerić, Uriel Orlow, Elizabeth Price, Charlotte Prodger, Ben Rivers, Saša Tkačenko, Emir Šehanović, Bedwyr Williams.
Future In Debris is the second of six exhibitions being presented in the Western Balkans along with screenings and public events, curated by six curators from the region.
‘The need to rethink the community and to take united action to find the ecologies of the future are the burning topics that the FUTURE IN DEBRIS deals with.’ – Natalija Vujošević, curator
Curated by Natalija Vujošević in partnership with The Film Center of Montenegro. Realised in cooperation with the ‘Petrović Njegoš’ Foundation and the Institute for Contemporary Art (NVU).
With works by Lenka Đorojević & Matej Stupica, Adrijana Gvozdenović, Louis Henderson, Irena Lagator Pejović, Ivan Marković, Uriel Orlow, Charlotte Prodger, Ben Rivers, Ivan Salatić, Jelena Tomašević.
The 22 Bienal de Arte Paiz aims to dig into the past and think and imagine together possible futures. Curated by Alexia Tala and Gabriel Rodríguez Pellecer.
The exhibition “Ecologies and Politics of the Living” explores the relationship between animate and inanimate environments, against the backdrop of a politically and economically interwoven world. Curated by Ibrahim Mahama, Baerbel Mueller and, Elisabeth Falkensteiner.
On the occasion of the Frankfurt’s botanical garden anniversary, the Historical Museum Frankfurt is dedicating an exhibition to Frankfurt’s parks and public gardens, highlighting how the city has dealt with its green landscapes, past and present. Curated by Nina Gorgus.
Tree Story brings together creative practices from around the world to create a ‘forest’ of ideas relating to critical environmental and sustainability issues. At its foundation—or roots—are Indigenous ways of knowing and a recognition of trees as our ancestors and family. An exhibition, publication and podcast series, Tree Story takes inspiration from the underground networks, information sharing and mutual support understood to exist within tree communities, and poses the question: what can we learn from trees and the importance of Country? Curated by Charlotte Day and Dr Brian Martin.
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.