Carl Cheng, Erosions and Environmental Changes, 2020, Courtesy the artist and Philip Martin Gallery, Los Angeles; Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige, A State, 2019, Sammlung Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst; Julian Charrière, Metamorphism XVI, XXVI, XXVIII, LII, 2016, Courtesy the artist, Dittrich & Schlechtriem, Berlin and Galerie Tschudi, Zuoz; Photo: Stefan Altenburger Photography, Zurich
Louis Henderson, All That is Solid, 2014, Courtesy the artist; Carl Cheng, Erosions and Environmental Changes, 2020, Courtesy the artist and Philip Martin Gallery, Los Angeles; Photo: Stefan Altenburger Photography, Zurich
Carl Cheng, Organic Laboratory, 1968-2020, Photo: Stefan Altenburger Photography, Zurich
Dora Budor, Origin III (Snow Storm), 2019, Courtesy the artist; Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige, A State, 2019, Sammlung Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst; Julian Charrière, Metamorphism XVI, XXVI, XXVIII, LII, 2016, Courtesy the artist, Dittrich & Schlechtriem, Berlin and Galerie Tschudi, Zuoz; Photo: Stefan Altenburger Photography, Zurich
Julian Charrière, Metamorphism XVI, XXVI, XXVIII, LII, 2016, Courtesy the artist, Dittrich & Schlechtriem, Berlin and Galerie Tschudi, Zuoz; Photo: Stefan Altenburger Photography Zurich
Peter Fend, RAPID Methane Gas Station, 2000, Sammlung Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst; Peter Fend, RAPID Logo, 2000 Sammlung Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst; Photo: Stefan Altenburger Photography, Zurich
Peter Fend, RAPID Methane Gas Station, 2000 Sammlung Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Photo: Stefan Altenburger Photography, Zurich
Peter Fend, Delancey Street Goes to the Sea No.1–4, 1979, Sammlung Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst; Peter Fend, RAPID Methane Gas Station, 2000, Sammlung Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst; Peter Fend, RAPID Logo, 2000, Sammlung Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst; Photo: Stefan Altenburger Photography, Zurich
Peter Fend, Delancey Street Goes to the Sea No.1–4, 1979, Sammlung Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Photo: Stefan Altenburger Photography, Zurich
Helen Mayer Harrison & Newton Harrison, Book of the Lagoons, 1974–84/1986, Sammlung Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Photo: Stefan Altenburger Photography, Zurich
Cao Fei, Rumba II: Nomad, 2015 Courtesy of the artist and Vitamin Creative Space, Guangzhou, Photo: Stefan Altenburger Photography Zurich
Korakrit Arunanondchai, Painting with history in a room filled with people with funny names 3, 2015 Sammlung Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Photo: Stefan Altenburger Photography, Zurich
Photo: Stefan Altenburger Photography, Zurich
Anca Benera & Arnold Estefán, Debrisphere. Visibile Manifestations of the Invisible Forces, 2019–2020, Commissioned by Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst and YARAT Contemporary Art Space. Courtesy the artists and Ivan Gallery, Bucharest; Zheng Bo, Fern as Method, 2019 Courtesy the artist and Kyoto City University of Arts, Kyoto; Jimmie Durham, Alpine Substance on Wolfsburg Construction, 2007, Sammlung Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Photo: Stefan Altenburger Photography, Zurich
Zheng Bo, Pteridophilia 1, 2016 Courtesy of the artist and Edourd Malingue Gallery, Hongkong/Shanghai; Zheng Bo, Fern as Method, 2019 Courtesy the artist and Kyoto City University of Arts, Kyoto, Photo: Stefan Altenburger Photography, Zurich
Jimmie Durham, Alpine Substance on Wolfsburg Construction, 2007 Sammlung Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Photo: Stefan Altenburger Photography, Zurich
Jimmie Durham, Alpine Substance on Wolfsburg Construction, 2007, Sammlung Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst; Peter Fend Towards a Better Use of the Dammed Reservoirs that Surround Dallas-Houston, USA and Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, for an Ecological Competition, 2020, Courtesy the artist and Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin; Tue Greenfort Horseshoe Crab, Companion Species YOUTUBE Series, I, 2013/17 Courtesy the artist and KÖNIG GALERIE, Berlin / London / Tokyo; Tue Greenfort Horseshoe Crab #01, #02, #03, #07, #08, 2017 Courtesy the artist and KÖNIG GALERIE, Berlin / London / Tokyo; Photo: Stefan Altenburger Photography, Zurich
Photo: Stefan Altenburger Photography, ZurichBurton Nitta (Michael Burton & Michiko Nitta), Algaculture, Near Future Algae Symbiosis Suit – Prototype 4, 2020, Algaculture, Algae Man, 2010, Courtesy the artists; Mileece*, i Oracle: Dreaming in the Future Ancient, 2018/2020, Commissioned by Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst and YARAT Contemporary Art Space. Courtesy the artist; Mary Maggic, Plants of the Future, 2013/2020, Commissioned by Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst and YARAT Contemporary Art Space. Courtesy the artist; Pinar Yoldas, Plastic Soup Morning Recipe, 2014, Organs of the Plastisphere, 2014, Species of the Plastisphere, 2014, Courtesy the artist; Foto: Stefan Altenburger Photography, Zurich
Mileece*, i Oracle: Dreaming in the Future Ancient, 2018/2020 Commissioned by Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst and YARAT Contemporary Art Space. Courtesy the artist, Photo: Stefan Altenburger Photography, Zurich
MOON Kyungwon & JEON Joonho, El Fin del Mundo, 2012, Sammlung Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst; Mileece*, i Oracle: Dreaming in the Future Ancient, 2018/2020, Commissioned by Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst and YARAT Contemporary Art Space. Courtesy the artist; Adrián Villar Rojas, From the series The Theater of Disappearance (XIV), 2020 Commissioned by Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst and YARAT Contemporary Art Space. Courtesy the artist, kurimanzutto, Mexico City / New York and Marian Goodman Gallery, New York/Paris/London; Photo: Stefan Altenburger Photography, Zurich
Adrián Villar Rojas, From the series The Theater of Disappearance (XIV), 2020 Commissioned by Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst and YARAT Contemporary Art Space. Courtesy the artist, kurimanzutto, Mexico City / New York and Marian Goodman Gallery, New York/Paris/London, Photo: Stefan Altenburger Photography, Zurich
Mary Maggic, Plants of the Future, 2013/2020, Commissioned by Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst and YARAT Contemporary Art Space. Courtesy the artist; Mileece*, i Oracle: Dreaming in the Future Ancient, 2018/2020, Commissioned by Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst and YARAT Contemporary Art Space. Courtesy the artist; Adrián Villar Rojas, From the series The Theater of Disappearance (XIV), 2020, Commissioned by Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst and YARAT Contemporary Art Space. Courtesy the artist, kurimanzutto, Mexico City / New York and Marian Goodman Gallery, New York/Paris/London; Photo: Stefan Altenburger Photography, Zurich
Mary Maggic, Plants of the Future, 2013/2020, Commissioned by Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst and YARAT Contemporary Art Space. Courtesy the artist; Pinar Yoldas, Plastic Soup Morning Recipe, 2014, Organs of the Plastisphere, 2014, Species of the Plastisphere, 2014, Courtesy the artist; Photo: Stefan Altenburger Photography, Zurich
Mary Maggic, Plants of the Future, 2013/2020, Commissioned by Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst and YARAT Contemporary Art Space. Courtesy the artist; Pinar Yoldas, Organs of the Plastisphere, 2014, Courtesy the artist, The Kitty AI: Artificial Intelligence for Governance, 2016, Sammlung Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst; Photo: Stefan Altenburger, Photography Zurich
Pinar Yoldas, The Kitty AI: Artificial Intelligence for Governance, 2016, Sammlung Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Photo: Stefan Altenburger Photography, Zurich
The group exhibition Potential Worlds 2: Eco-Fictions follows up on the questions raised by Potential Worlds 1: Planetary Memories by laying out speculative projections of the web of relationships between humans and nature in light of today’s ecological situation. The consequences of environmental devastation have made it plain that we need to understand humanity to be an integral part of rather than the center of the world.
The first chapter of the exhibition series, Potential Worlds 1: Planetary Memories, turned the spotlight on the ways in which humans took possession of the natural world in pursuit of power and resources and the repercussions for nature as well as communities. Building on these insights, Potential Worlds 2: Eco-Fictions inquires into the potential worlds that might emerge from the ruins of humanity’s making: What can we do with the detritus of contemporary life and the traces of destruction? Given the precarious situation in which the world finds itself, how can we begin to look for new ways of life? Which role can art as a technological, scientific, and social experiment play in this quest?
The artists in the exhibition sketch visions of potential worlds and underscore that we need to imagine possible futures in concrete terms for alternative modes of life to come into being. They reflect on how we treat nature and craft ideas for novel forms of life on earth. We’re sure you’ll be inspired!
In collaboration with YARAT Contemporary Art Space, Baku
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Exhibition film: «Potential Worlds 2: Eco Fictions»
ONLINE-SYMPOSIUM "CONTEMPORARY DEBATES ON THE ECOLOGICAL CRISIS"_Teil 1_Dr. Gabriella Calchi Novati im Gespräch mit Gözde Filinta und Prof. Dr. Federico Luisetti im Gespräch mit Dr. Elena Rosauro, 2021
ONLINE-SYMPOSIUM "CONTEMPORARY DEBATES ON THE ECOLOGICAL CRISIS"_Teil 2_Dr. Yvonne Volkart im Gespräch mit Dorothee Richter und Dr. Jose Cáceres im Gespräch mit Dr. Elena Rosauro, 2021
ONLINE-SYMPOSIUM "CONTEMPORARY DEBATES ON THE ECOLOGICAL CRISIS"_Teil 3_Dr. Marcus Hall im Gespräch mit Gözde Filinta und Dr. Pinar Yoldas im Gespräch mit Heike Munder, 2021
ARTIST’S TALK MIT PETER FEND, 2021
ONLINE-TALK MIT OMER FAST, 2021
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