Presented at the ShanghART Singapore Gallery up to 23 June 2019, the installation ‘Trying to Remember a Tree (iii) - The world will surely collapse’, by Robert Zhao Renhui, was triggered by a seemingly commonplace event: a tree collapsed near his home and was cut up by the authorities prior to removal. Exhibited on a [...]
Art of change 21 - The name of your upcoming exhibition at MacGarry Gallery is ‘Near Life Experience’, what is it about? Marcus Coates - For so many of us, particularly in urban areas, our contact with and awareness of non human animals is increasingly limited. It is this presence of the 'beyond human world' [...]
In the heart of central Europe in the land formerly known as Bohemia, lies a region of iconically beautiful and fragile forest: the ancient Šumava (“The sound of wind in the trees”). The slender conifers that populate this region, in addition to being commercially harvested, are under massive assault by bark beetles, which invade and [...]
Russia was not expected to be the most mobilized country on the environment. And yet, in 2019, the country will be the protagonist of a major exhibition at the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow, addressing the theme of the ecological crisis, by calling together visual arts, science, technology and activism. "The Coming Wolrd: [...]
Milan will host next month the XXII edition of the "Triennale de Design" on the theme: "Broken Nature: Design Takes on Human Survival". Behind the optimism of a resilient design capable of repairing environmental damage, is projected a tragic dimension, making the assumption of extinction of species, including human. The curator Paola Antonelli brings in [...]
Created in 2010, the Biennial of Kochi-Muziris (main city of Kerala, India) has constantly reflected the will of its habitants to build the foundations of a new society that wants to be more free, inclusive and democratic. This event presents itself as a major project where artistic creation proposes to reinvent the world in which [...]
Brussels, Luxembourg and Paris convoke at the beginning of the year three exhibitions questioning our relationship with nature and species. Maarten Vanden Eynde, as part of her exhibition Half Earth at the Meessen De Clercq Gallery (Brussels), pragmatically orchestrates a new organization of our planet inspired by biologist E.O Wilson dividing humans on one side [...]
Art of change 21 - You have your first solo exhibition in Italy in the Living Art Park of Turino, named Weed Parti III, What does it show? What impact your work have? Bo Zheng - The central part of the exhibition at PAV is a weeds garden realized with the kind support of PAV [...]
In 2018, Palais de Tokyo gave the artist Tomás Saraceno free rein to present his latest research centred on biomimetics and the Anthropocene. Passionate about the upper atmosphere, he transcends reality to create a poetic space that heightens our imaginative capacities. Since 2015, Aerocene has brought together artists, makers, and scientists to explore opportunities for [...]
Art of Change 21 - What brought you to work on plastic pollution and environmental issues? Serge Attukwei Clottey - I grew up in Labadi, Accra, next to a lagoon separating my hometown from the next one. These past few years, a conflict between these two towns about who owned the lagoon began. Labadi won, [...]
