Anca Bucur: Herbarium – A Red Ecology

MQ Artist-in-Residence Anca Bucur
Herbarium – A Red Ecology 
Opening together with other MQ Showrooms: Wed 29.01.2025, 18h
30.01. – 30.03.2025 | MQ Pop-Up Schauraum
Free entry

The exhibition "Herbarium — A Red Ecology" by MQ Artist-in-Residence Anca Bucur reflects on the connection between environmental and social catastrophes in the historical context of enlightenment and industrialization. In her installation consisting of ten textile works, the artist explores the development of botany as a modern science, tracing its political and economic impact and showing how it continues to have an impact in the present day. Anca Bucur reconstructs how a view reduced to reason, the domination of nature, capitalism, and colonial imperialism have led to the environmental and social catastrophes confronting us today. It is also a tribute to Rosa Luxemburg, who fought relentlessly throughout her life for a socialist world. She made important contributions to a Marxist understanding of the development of the capitalist system and in the last days of her life vehemently opposed militarization and imperialism.

Curator: Elisabeth Hajek

Photo: © Anca Bucur