VIDEO WINDOW as a guest in the Haus für Kunst Uri, Altdorf
Exhibition: Nature – Between Desire and Reality. From Amazonia to the Alps

Publication, cover. Back: Isabelle Krieg, Fucked up World, 2018 (object) / Front: Cao Guimarães & Rivane Neuenschwander, Sopro, 2000 (video still)

  • Opening: 14 September 2019, incl. Performance by Saskia Edens
  • Duration: 15 September until 24th November 2019
  • Co-curatorship: Barbara Zürcher & Bruno Z'Graggen
  • Publication: A bilingual publication (G/E) does accompany the exhibition, publisher Verlag edition pudelundpinscher.
  • Project cooperation: VIDEO WINDOW, Haus für Kunst Uri, director Barbara Zürcher, and Universität Luzern, Prof. Dr. Boris Previšić, literature and cultural studies

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Concept & Content: Media Release

The international group exhibition Nature – between Desire and Reality is part of a transdisciplinary project that is bringing together art and science in dialogue. It is the cooperative work of Barbara Zürcher, Director of Haus für Kunst Uri, the freelance curator Dr. Bruno Z’Graggen, Zurich (VIDEO WINDOW), 36 Swiss and international artists and the literary and cultural scientist Prof. Dr. Boris Previšić of the University of Lucerne. The project consists of the exhibition, an accompanying publication, a three-day conference and a block seminar in the autumn semester of 2019.

The group exhibition is curated by Barbara Zürcher and Dr. Bruno Z’Graggen. It demonstrates the great variety of ways in which contemporary art is questioning concepts of nature as well as the aesthetic approaches and poetic energy generated by such work. The exhibition spans a broad arc from Amazonia to the Alps. By illustrating global interrelationships it seeks to encourage us to reflect upon our own perception of nature against the background of accelerating climate change.

The almost 70 works in the exhibition represent a full range of artistic media: painting, drawing, sculpture, perfor- mance, photography, film, video and installation. One focus is provided by six artists from Brazil. The majority of the 27 positions are from Switzerland. Venezuela, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Belgium are each also represented by one artist.

Artists
Georg Aerni (CH), Judith Albert (CH), Claudia Andujar (BR), John Armleder (CH), Caroline Bachmann (CH), Sammy Baloji (RDC), Mabe Bethônico (BR), Rodrigo Braga (BR), Mayo Bucher (CH), Chalet5 (CH), Heinrich Danioth (CH), Caetano Dias (BR), Quynh Dong (CH), Hanna Van Dyck (BE), Saskia Edens (CH), Marianne Engel (CH), Lorenz Gelpke (D/CH), Cao Guimarães (BR), Marianne Halter & Mario Marchisella (CH), huber.huber (CH), Leiko Ikemura (CH), Silvan Kälin (CH), Stefan Karrer (CH), Isabelle Krieg (CH), Simon Ledergerber (CH), Katja Loher (CH), Cinthia Marcelle (BR), Ursula Palla (CH), Peter Regli (CH), Marcel Reuschmann (CH), Doris Schmid (CH), Roman Signer (CH), Jürg Stäuble (CH), Javier Téllez (VE), Daniel Wicky (CH), wiedemann/mettler (CH)

With friendly support by
Otto Gamma Stiftung, Mobiliar Jubiläumsstiftung, Landis & Gyr Stiftung, Ernst Göhner Stiftung, Walter Haefner Stiftung, Stanley Thomas Johnson Stiftung, Stiftung Erna und Curt Burgauer, Forschungskommission der Universität Luzern, Casimir Eigensatz Stiftung, videocompany


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