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Exhibitions

6 Oct ’21 – 16 Oct ’21

Fragments & Absences | Grand Palais, Bern

Fragments & Absences reunites artworks from the exhibition Exotic? Switzerland Looking Outward in the Age of Enlightenment, which opened one year ago at the Palais de Rumine in Lausanne and presented research carried out at the University of Bern. The exhibition, curated by Noémie Etienne, Claire Brizon, Chonja Lee, and Etienne Wismer (Institute of Art History, University of Bern), gathered 150 historical objects to tell stories of Swiss people who traveled outside Europe in the 18th century and engaged in various activities: collecting, sketching, writing, and producing imitation porcelain, lacquer, and printed cottons. The contemporary artworks gathered in Fragments & Absences question the notions of memory, absence, and survival.


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4 Oct ’21 – 6 Feb ’22

Earth Beats, Naturbild im Wandel | Kunsthaus Zürich

A major exhibition exploring artists’ engagement with the planet and its vulnerability. It considers both the history of ideas and future scenarios for the sustainable use of natural resources. ‘Earth Beats’ is an artists’ plea to preserve the Earth and its natural resources, born out of the urgency of the present situation. Nature, in the form of landscape painting, is firmly embedded in art history. In works from earlier centuries we generally encounter it as idyllic scenery, but since the 1970s it has been depicted with ever greater clarity as an entity threatened by human intervention and at the same time deserving of protection.

Curated by Sandra Gianfreda and Cathérine Hug, with some 120 works by Lothar Baumgarten, Vaughn Bell, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Joseph Beuys, Ursula Biemann, Nomin Bold, Laurence Bonvin, Herbert Brandl, Julian Charrière, Edward Theodore Compton, Gustave Courbet, Tony Cragg, Buby Durini, Thomas Fearnley, Peter Fischli & David Weiss, Francesca Gabbiani, Ludwig Hess, Cornelia Hesse-Honegger, Ferdinand Hodler, Anna Jermolaewa, Ruth Kaaserer, Mikhail Karikis & Uriel Orlow, Armin Linke & Giulia Bruno & Giuseppe Ielasi, Richard Long, Marcus Maeder, Maurice Maggi, Ana Mendieta, Conrad Meyer, Johann Heinrich Meyer, Otto Morach, Harald Naegeli, Walter Niedermayr, Katie Paterson, Albert Renger-Patzsch, Oliver Ressler, Germaine Richier, Ed Ruscha, David Shrigley, Jules Spinatsch, Johann Gottfried Steffan, Annelies Štrba, Thomas Struth, Vivian Suter, Félix Vallotton, Auguste Veillon, Hans Beat Wieland, Caspar Wolf, Robert Zünd.


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16 Sep ’21 – 9 Jan ’22

Tip of the Iceberg | Focal Point Gallery Southend

This exhibition explores the relationship between art and alternative growing practices, which are increasingly coming together in pursuit of climate action and social justice. New and recent works by local and international artists explore three key themes: the notion of the ‘commons’, i.e. our common right to the earth’s natural resources (air, water, soil, land); how plants can be considered as both witnesses and agents across history, and how local hidden economies can act as catalysts for wider change. With works by Shaun C. Badham, Becky Beasley, Kathrin Böhm, Graham Burnett, Gabriella Hirst with Warren Harper, Anna Lukala, Mary Mattingly, Uriel Orlow, Rachel Pimm, Alida Rodrigues, Zheng Bo.


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20 Aug ’21 – 31 Oct ’21

Potential Agrarianisms | Kunsthalle Bratislava

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.


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10 Jul ’21 – 17 Oct ’21

What the eyes cannot see | Kunsthaus Dresden

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.


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10 Jul ’21 – 10 Oct ’21

British Art Show 9 | Aberdeen Art Gallery

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.


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7 Jul ’21 – 4 Aug ’21

The Isle of Thorns | GALERiA e BREGDETiT, Vlorë

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.

2 Jul ’21 – 17 Oct ’21

Extractive Zones | Museum der Kulturen Basel

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.


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12 Jun ’21

Toxic Lands | Bunar Bridge, Mostar

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.

3 Apr ’21 – 1 May ’21

Conflicts | Eugster, Belgrade

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.


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1 May ’21

Future in Debris | Fondacija Petrović Njegoš, Podgorica

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.