30.01.2025 – 30.03.2025
The exhibition ‘Herbarium – A Red Ecology’ by MQ artist-in-residence Anca Bucur, curated by Elisabeth Hajek, reflects on the connection between ecological and social catastrophes in the historical context of the Enlightenment and industrialisation. In her installation consisting of ten textile works, the artist explores the development of botany as a modern science, traces its political and economic impact and shows how it continues to have an effect today. Anca Bucur reconstructs how a view reduced to reason, the domination of nature, capitalism and colonial imperialism have led to the ecological and social catastrophes of the present day. Her work is also a tribute to Rosa Luxemburg, who fought tirelessly throughout her life for a socialist world, made important contributions to a Marxist understanding of the development of the capitalist system and vehemently opposed the dangers of militarisation and imperialism in the last days of her life.
Anca Bucur | Herbarium – A Red Ecology
30.01.2025 – 30.03.2025
MQ Pop-Up Schauraum
Museumsplatz 1
1070 Vienna
https://www.mqw.at
