14.11.2024 to 14.11.2024 - MQ Freiraum
Artist Tour with Ursula Biemann
FREE ENTRY, ART
Artist Tour with Ursula Biemann
Thu 14.11.2024, 17h
Language: German
participation free of charge with a valid admission ticket
MQ Freiraum
Swiss artist Ursula Biemann's first solo exhibition in Vienna focuses on her 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-driven, collaborative and based on traveling to remote places from Greenland to Amazonia, where she investigates climate change and the ecology of oil, ice, forests and water. "Based on field research in the forests of the Colombian Amazon, my recent art videos and collaborative action projects bring together different strands of knowledge about the intelligence of nature and the relationships between all the creatures that inhabit these spaces," says the artist. Biemann sensitively and astutely observes and analyzes the given social, knowledge-based and legal systems that shape the relationship to nature. In her multi-layered videos, she interweaves atmospheric and documentary landscape shots with science fiction poetry, individual stories, cosmological orders and scientific findings to illustrate a changing planetary reality and tell it with new narratives.
Curated by Verena Kaspar-Eisert, chief curator MuseumsQuartier
The exhibition catalogue is available on site at the MQ Freiraum.
until 23.02.2025, MQ Freiraum l Tue bis Sun, 10–18h
MQ Freiraum, Ursula Biemann, Becoming Earth, exhibition view, photo: Simon Veres, 2024
Ursula Biemann's (*1955) video installations are exhibited worldwide in museums and at international art biennials and have been described in numerous publications. She has recently had solo exhibitions at the MUAC, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Mexico City, the MAMAC in Nice and the UNAL Art Museum in Bogota. She lives in Zurich and works worldwide.
