Opening: 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 bricks, ten textile works with embroidery and cyanotypes of plants (Creeping Thistle, Viper’s Bugloss, Greater Celandine, Common Wormwood and Nodding Thistle), 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. The work was completed as a tribute by the artist to Rosa Luxemburg, who throughout her life fought incessantly for a socialist world, brought major contributions to a Marxist understanding of the development of the capitalist system, and ultimately opposed militarization and imperialism.

Curator: Elisabeth Hajek
In cooperation with tranzit.org/ERSTE Foundation.

Photo: © Anca Bucur

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