Impact Art News is a French-English bilingual bimonthly online magazine on contemporary art and the environment.
Since April 2018, Impact Art News has selected, interviewed and supported artists, exhibitions and projects related to ecology and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Editorial team: Alice Audouin, Aloïs Loizeau, Eliza Morris, Juliette Soulez, Lucia Longhi, Pauline Lisowski, Stefano Vendramin
Newsletter management and online publication: Eliza Morris, Pauline Lisowski, Aloïs Loizeau, Elisabeth Mbeng
Translators: Eliza Morris, Juliette Soulez, Stefano Vendramin, Eva Radek
Publisher: Art of Change 21
Director of Publication: Alice Audouin
Former editor from April 2018 to December 2019 : Alice Audouin Consulting
Thank you to those who contributed to the letter Oscar Bardet (January – December 2023), Hélène Geber (January 2021 – September 2023), Marie Leprêtre (September – December 2020), Lisa Toubas (January 2019 – June 2020), Marguerite Courtel (April – December 2018).
Art of Change 21 warmly thanks Maison Guerlain for its support.
Humans – non-humans: for a new story
Conceiving and experiencing emotion, intelligence, and subjectivity beyond the human sphere is vital for building a new culture that no longer objectifies nature. The international exhibition Feel nature from the inside at the Moderna Museet in Malmö, Sweden, is [...]
Kaki Tree Project, by Tatsuo Miyajima
From the only persimmon that survived the atomic bomb attack that devastated Nagasaki in 1945, the arborist Masayuki Ebinuma collected seeds in order to plant them. He also distributed several young shoots, as symbols of peace, to [...]
Interview of the artist Thijs Biersteker
Art of Change 21 – What’s new with you? Thijs Biersteker – Right now, there’s so much going on! I’ve just finished two group shows – Nous les arbres (Trees) at Fondation Cartier, where my outdoor [...]
A new kind of weather forecast
What will the weather be like tomorrow? This is the question answered by a new kind of weather forecast imagined by four artists: Janne Nabb & Maria Teeri (Finland), Ane Graff (Norway), and Ingela Ihrman [...]
“Conversing with Leaves”, by Uriel Orlow
By making trees and plants witnesses of the great moments in the history of humanity, Uriel Orlow invites visitors to consider them as both narrators and protagonists of the events that mark our lives. Colonialism, apartheid, migration [...]
Paris, the new capital of art and ecology?
With Le vent se lève (The wind gets up), the MAC-VAL museum will highlight those of its acquisitions that question the relations between humanity and Mother Earth. Fondation EDF will also open Courants verts, Créer pour l’environnement (Green currents, creating [...]
Be Dammed, by Carolina Caycedo
In Indigenous cosmogonies of the Americas, all bodies of waters are connected. Rivers are the veins of the planet, their waters combine communities and ecosystems. Reviving this systemic relationship, changing our relationship with water from a [...]
Interview of the artist Janet Laurence
Art of Change 21 - What is news with you? Janet Laurence - I am observing the fast falling avalanche of disasters being actioned by man upon the planet on top of accelerating climate change. [...]
The future of humanity in technology’s hands
With Future and the Arts: AI, Robotics, Cities, Life – How Humanity Will Live Tomorrow, Tokyo’s Mori Art Museum plunges us into a near future where breakthrough technologies, like artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, and biotechnology have modified not only science, architecture, and agriculture, but [...]
So far, so good?
As part of the Némo Biennial of Digital Arts, up to 26 January 2020 the CENTQUATRE-PARIS is hosting the exhibition Jusqu'ici tout va bien ? (So far, so good?) Its commissioners Gilles Alvarez and José-Manuel Gonçalvès invite visitors to take leap [...]
“Towards No Earthly Pole”, by Julian Charrière
Back home for his new exhibition Towards No Earthly Pole, showing at the Museo d'arte della Svizzera italiana (MASI Lugano) in Switzerland, Julian Charrière is presenting a series of art works bearing witness to extreme environments. MASI is the first [...]
Formafantasma: Cambio at Serpentine’s
London’s iconic Serpentine Galleries will host Formafantasma Studio from 4 March to 17 May 2020. The Amsterdam-based, Italian design duo will combine design, contemporary art and scientific research to question the role of design in raising public awareness of [...]