27.09.2024 – 23.02.2025
At the centre of Swiss artist Ursula Biemann’s exhibition in Vienna are video works from the past ten years in which she explores various ecological conditions, living realities and natural relationships: Forest Law (2014), Acoustic Ocean (2018), Forest Mind (2021) and Devenir Universidad (2019–2023). Ursula Biemann’s artistic practice is research-led, collaborative and based on travelling to remote places from Greenland to Amazonia, where she investigates climate change and the ecology of oil, ice, forests and water. Biemann sensitively and astutely observes and analyses the given social, knowledge-based and legal systems that shape the relationship with nature. In her multi-layered videos, she interweaves atmospheric and documentary landscape shots with science fiction poetry, individual stories, cosmological orders and scientific findings in order to depict a changing planetary reality and tell it with new narratives. As part of the exhibition curated by Verena Kaspar-Eisert, a symposium will be held at which Hernando Chindoy, former leader of the indigenous Inga community in Colombia, will give a lecture.
Ursula Biemann – Becoming Earth
27.09.2024 – 23.02.2025
Museumquartier, MQ Freiraum
Museumsplatz 1
1070 Vienna
https://www.mqw.at
