Becoming Earth

Ursula Biemann’s artistic practice is research-oriented and collaborative, emerging from her travels to remote locations ranging from Greenland to the Amazon, where she explores climate change and the ecology of oil, ice, forests, and water. “Based on field research in the forests of the Colombian Amazon, my most recent art videos and collaborative action projects bring together various strands of knowledge about the intelligence of nature and the relationships between all living beings that inhabit these spaces,” says the artist. Biemann sensitively and astutely observes and analyzes the respective social, knowledge-based, and legal systems that shape our relationship with nature. In her multi-layered videos, she weaves atmospheric and documentary landscape footage with science-fiction poetry, personal stories, cosmological orders, and scientific findings to visualize a changing planetary reality and retell it through new narratives.

Curator: Verena Kaspar-Eisert