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Ursula Biemann: Becoming Earth

27.09.2024 to 23.02.2025 - MQ Freiraum

Ursula Biemann: Becoming Earth

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Ursula Biemann
Becoming Earth
until 23.02.2025 | 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.

The exhibition will be accompanied by a symposium at which Hernando Chindoy, former leader of the indigenous Inga community in Colombia, will give a lecture.


Curator: Verena Kaspar-Eisert

The exhibition catalogue is available on site at the MQ Freiraum.

Acoustic Ocean © Ursula Biemann

Acoustic Ocean © Ursula Biemann

Acoustic Ocean © Ursula Biemann

Acoustic Ocean © Ursula Biemann

Acoustic Ocean © Ursula Biemann

Acoustic Ocean © Ursula Biemann

Acoustic Ocean © Ursula Biemann

Acoustic Ocean © Ursula Biemann

Forest Law © Ursula Biemann

Forest Law © Ursula Biemann

Forest Mind © Ursula Biemann

Forest Mind © Ursula Biemann

Forest Mind © Ursula Biemann

MQ Freiraum

opening hours

mo:closed
tue-sun:10-18h

Opening hours

Tue – Sun, 10 – 18h

Tickets

regular 5€
reduced* 3€

*students and apprentices under the age of 26, persons in compulsory military service or alternative civil service under the age of 26

Free admission

for children and young people under 19, people with disabilities + 1 assistant, Berufsvereinigung Bildender Künstler:innen, IG Bildende Kunst, International Association of Art, Hunger auf Kunst und Kultur, MuseumsQuartier Card, Verband österreichischer Kunsthistoriker:innen, ICOM

Educational program

Public guided tours in German
Wed 09.10, 06.11. & 04.12., 17h
Wed 08.01. & 12.02.2025, 17h
participation free of charge with a valid admission ticket

Guided tours for individuals and groups
inquiries: tour@mqw.at

Artist Tour with Rodrigo Braga
Wed 13.11., 17h l in English
participation free of charge with a valid admission ticket

Artist Tour with Ursula Biemann
Thu 14.11., 17h l in German
participation free of charge with a valid admission ticket

Mini-Symposium „Becoming Earth“
Fri 15.11., 16-20h l free admission and participation
registration: veranstaltung@mqw.at
With lectures and discussions by Ursula Biemann, Rodrigo Braga, Hernando Chindoy and Eduardo Jorge de Oliveira, among others
in English

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