artificial ecologies

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The artists Yoav Admoni, Chris Bierl, the fermentier.bar, Saša Spačal and Annette Weisser negotiate the relationships between naturalness and artificiality with their aesthetic concepts. The intertwining of the living and the artificial creates an ecology of ideas with new perspectives.  

Yoav Admoni examines how ideas of nature have entered into thought patterns and everyday life and confronts us with the natural as a social place of longing.   

Chris Bierl embeds organic matter in his art. The artwork creates a walk-in habitat where visitors interact with live orchid (and) mantids.  

The fermentier.bar portrays, celebrates and experiments with microorganisms in the context of fermentation. The mediation of this cultural technique creates tangible, sensory-aesthetic experiences in the field of tension between chaos and control. 

Saša Spačal's work "Mycomythologies" opens up a microscopic view of a living, growing mushroom landscape that is mixed with the artist's microbiome (blood, sweat, tears) and takes on its form in the interrelationships. 

Ingo Vetter & Annette Weisser place the technology of recycling and upcycling in the context of globalized ecosystems and their associated problems. They work exclusively with the wood of the tree of gods, which, as fallow settlers, has adapted perfectly to hostile urban landscapes and whose wood is considered inferior. The Kassel repair series combines existing design classics with elements of the tree of heaven to create eight hybrid chairs.