Wie ernähren wir uns gegenwärtig, wie wollen wir zukünftig essen und leben und welche Auswirkungen wird dies haben? Die internationale Gruppenausstellung „Politik am Küchentisch“ nimmt individuelle wie gesellschaftliche – und somit stets auch politische – Aspekte der Ernährung mit ihren ökologischen, ökonomischen und sozialen Verflechtungen anhand zeitgenössischer künstlerischer Arbeiten in den Blick. In biologischen und kulturellen Kreisläufen formt uns das, was wir essen. Zugleich nehmen wir durch unsere Entscheidungen Einfluss auf die uns umgebende Um-Welt, sodass wir mit unseren Handlungen den Zustand der Welt am eigenen Küchentisch und im sozialen Miteinander des Essens stets neu prägen. In dieser Ausstellung werden unterschiedliche soziopolitische und ökologische Dimensionen der Ernährung aus künstlerischer Perspektive ausgelotet.
Part of the Antwerp (Academy) Art Weekend The Tempel is hosting the exhibition Blooming from Ashes, featuring artworks that address the complex socio-ecological issues we face today. The exhibition brings together works by Fabiola Burgos Labra, Liza Goncharenko, Sina Hensel, Eva-Fiore Kovacovsky, Ligia Poplawska and Delphine Wibaux, all artists from the Art & Ecology research group, providing insight into their ongoing research projects. Alongside these works, the American eco-artist Brandon Ballengée will present his work.
Light Layers brings together the three artists Eva-Fiore Kovacovsky, Stefanie Seufert, and Luca Caciagli.
The artists return to the elemental chemistry of photography - working hands-on to create unique images that reveal a direct relationship between the subject and the image itself. As a response to the dematerialisation of images in the digital environment and the endless reproduction of virtual pictures, these works reassert photography's tangible connection to the world through touch, surtace oresence. The medium is deconstructed and reimagined, giving rise to new meanings and perspectives. Through tactile and process-based materiality and its relationship to light, touch approaches, Kovacovsky, Seufert, and Caciag lied sensory experience.
“What you do every day makes you who you are."
Leanne Simpson The snow has melted.
The Anishinaabe season Ziigwan, invites us to the first part of spring, when the sap starts to flow again in the tree trunks. In our favourite time of the year, this season of renewal and radical transformation, we gather around nibi, the concept of water. We follow the eel how it used to swim from the Sargasso Sea to the Nishnaabeg territory now blocked by dams and polluted water.
Eva-Fiore Kovacovsky’s studio is a place of experimentation, where photography, plants and food intersect. She photographs leaves and twigs in the darkroom and under direct sunlight, while the kitchen becomes a second laboratory. There she transforms clover, millet and camelina into sorbets and uses plant juices as a photographic medium. Kovacovsky invites viewers to experience plants with all their senses by seeing, tasting and imagining.
“I do not have day and I do not have moonlight I do not believe in time I do believe in water" Dionne Brand
Two years ago, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson inspired the "Land As Pedagogy" reading session with Klasse Klima. Now, we are looking forward to reading together about Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg practices of resistance grounded in the histories of land, water and colonialism.
ERDE/N, kuratiert von Carole Kambli und Sabine Rusterholz Petko, ist der erste Teil des Ausstellungszyklus Expanded Fields und widmet sich der Erde – als Lebensgrundlage, Symbol, Material und Raum für Transformation. Die Ausstellung versammelt künstlerische Arbeiten und Langzeit- sowie Kollaborationsprojekte, die die Erde als Nahrungsspenderin, Baumaterial, energetische Ressource, spirituelle Kraft oder Ort der Herkunft und Identität begreifen – und kritisch befragen.
How do you extract natural resources from the land when the peoples whose territory you're on believe that those plant, animal and minerals have both spirit and therefore agency? Leanne Simpson
The interdisciplinary scholar Banu Subramaniam refers to Leanne Simpson and other indigenous, feminist, and queer researchers and activists to narrate the violent history of Botany. We dedicate a second session to the book Botany of Empire: Plant Worlds and the Scientific Legacies of Colonialism to learn about the colonial project - and botany as a study of plants without their kins, their soil and their people.
What can we learn from photosynthesis? I would like to find out how we can make photosynthesis tangible and learn how it tastes. How is sugar / energy being passed on within the ecosystem? How is everything that heterotrophs eat interconnected? What is a leaf and how does it work? This involves exploring the tastes of various plants and understanding the interconnectedness of organisms.
Two year research project at the Royal Academie of Fine Arts Antwerp
Wie ernähren wir uns gegenwärtig, wie wollen wir zukünftig essen und leben und welche Auswirkungen wird dies haben? Die internationale Gruppenausstellung „Politik am Küchentisch“ nimmt individuelle wie gesellschaftliche – und somit stets auch politische – Aspekte der Ernährung mit ihren ökologischen, ökonomischen und sozialen Verflechtungen anhand zeitgenössischer künstlerischer Arbeiten in den Blick. In biologischen und kulturellen Kreisläufen formt uns das, was wir essen. Zugleich nehmen wir durch unsere Entscheidungen Einfluss auf die uns umgebende Um-Welt, sodass wir mit unseren Handlungen den Zustand der Welt am eigenen Küchentisch und im sozialen Miteinander des Essens stets neu prägen. In dieser Ausstellung werden unterschiedliche soziopolitische und ökologische Dimensionen der Ernährung aus künstlerischer Perspektive ausgelotet.
Part of the Antwerp (Academy) Art Weekend The Tempel is hosting the exhibition Blooming from Ashes, featuring artworks that address the complex socio-ecological issues we face today. The exhibition brings together works by Fabiola Burgos Labra, Liza Goncharenko, Sina Hensel, Eva-Fiore Kovacovsky, Ligia Poplawska and Delphine Wibaux, all artists from the Art & Ecology research group, providing insight into their ongoing research projects. Alongside these works, the American eco-artist Brandon Ballengée will present his work.
Light Layers brings together the three artists Eva-Fiore Kovacovsky, Stefanie Seufert, and Luca Caciagli.
The artists return to the elemental chemistry of photography - working hands-on to create unique images that reveal a direct relationship between the subject and the image itself. As a response to the dematerialisation of images in the digital environment and the endless reproduction of virtual pictures, these works reassert photography's tangible connection to the world through touch, surtace oresence. The medium is deconstructed and reimagined, giving rise to new meanings and perspectives. Through tactile and process-based materiality and its relationship to light, touch approaches, Kovacovsky, Seufert, and Caciag lied sensory experience.
“What you do every day makes you who you are."
Leanne Simpson The snow has melted.
The Anishinaabe season Ziigwan, invites us to the first part of spring, when the sap starts to flow again in the tree trunks. In our favourite time of the year, this season of renewal and radical transformation, we gather around nibi, the concept of water. We follow the eel how it used to swim from the Sargasso Sea to the Nishnaabeg territory now blocked by dams and polluted water.
Eva-Fiore Kovacovsky’s studio is a place of experimentation, where photography, plants and food intersect. She photographs leaves and twigs in the darkroom and under direct sunlight, while the kitchen becomes a second laboratory. There she transforms clover, millet and camelina into sorbets and uses plant juices as a photographic medium. Kovacovsky invites viewers to experience plants with all their senses by seeing, tasting and imagining.
“I do not have day and I do not have moonlight I do not believe in time I do believe in water" Dionne Brand
Two years ago, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson inspired the "Land As Pedagogy" reading session with Klasse Klima. Now, we are looking forward to reading together about Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg practices of resistance grounded in the histories of land, water and colonialism.
ERDE/N, kuratiert von Carole Kambli und Sabine Rusterholz Petko, ist der erste Teil des Ausstellungszyklus Expanded Fields und widmet sich der Erde – als Lebensgrundlage, Symbol, Material und Raum für Transformation. Die Ausstellung versammelt künstlerische Arbeiten und Langzeit- sowie Kollaborationsprojekte, die die Erde als Nahrungsspenderin, Baumaterial, energetische Ressource, spirituelle Kraft oder Ort der Herkunft und Identität begreifen – und kritisch befragen.
How do you extract natural resources from the land when the peoples whose territory you're on believe that those plant, animal and minerals have both spirit and therefore agency? Leanne Simpson
The interdisciplinary scholar Banu Subramaniam refers to Leanne Simpson and other indigenous, feminist, and queer researchers and activists to narrate the violent history of Botany. We dedicate a second session to the book Botany of Empire: Plant Worlds and the Scientific Legacies of Colonialism to learn about the colonial project - and botany as a study of plants without their kins, their soil and their people.
What can we learn from photosynthesis? I would like to find out how we can make photosynthesis tangible and learn how it tastes. How is sugar / energy being passed on within the ecosystem? How is everything that heterotrophs eat interconnected? What is a leaf and how does it work? This involves exploring the tastes of various plants and understanding the interconnectedness of organisms.
Two year research project at the Royal Academie of Fine Arts Antwerp