Notes related to Environment

The 2024 Venice Biennale has taken a profound interest on cyclical themes, with water emerging as a dominant motif across exhibitions. In resonance to Pedrosa’s title for this year ‘Stranieri Ovunque’, we see water as a dominant locus for the subjects of travel, shared heritage and fluctuation. On itself, water is seen (as both a vital resource and a destructive force) at the heart of the pavilions representing Greece, France, and in Otero Torres’ Arsenale installation, Aguacero. These exhibitions delve into water’s duality: as a life-giver and a potential destroyer, as a symbol of both division and connection.

The Leeum Museum of Art, operated by the Samsung Foundation of Culture, is hosting Aerocene Seoul, a three-month-long public project that connects Aerocene communities in and around Seoul as part of its public programme “Idea Museum.”

Germán Tagle (Santiago, Chile, 1976) returns to Madrid's Daniel Cuevas, where he held his first exhibition two years ago, with El territorio portátil, a show in which the Chilean artist returns to the axes of landscape, painting and culture that have been the backbone of his latest productions.

Cultural Programs of the National Academy of Sciences announces Xavier Cortada: Climate Science Art a solo exhibition at Washington, D.C. featuring Miami-based artist Xavier Cortada's climate change-focused artwork from Miami-Dade County, Florida, and the North and South Poles, spanning from 2007 to the present.

The Panama Pavilion at the 2024 Venice Art Biennale arises as a profound reflection on the enduring traces that migration leaves on individuals and their surroundings. Entitled Traces: On the Body and on the Land, this exhibition echoes the current migration crisis with a particular focus on the Panamanian context, interpreted by four artists through drawings, paintings, collages, glass sculptures, and installations.

The heart of a giraffe in captivity is twelve kilos lighter tells the story of Lenka the giraffe, drawing on the history of Czechoslovakia’s acquisition of animals from the Global South. Interpreted through contemporary ecological and decolonial perspectives, Eva Kotátková’s project of the Czech and Slovak Republic Pavilion at the Venice Biennale builds a space for imagining a different way of relating to nature.

The Japan Foundation, the commissioner of the Japan Pavilion presents Compose, a solo exhibition created by Yuko Mohri and curated by Sook-Kyung Lee at the 60^th International Venice Biennale.

Pine Meadow Ranch Center for Arts & Agriculture (PMRCAA) is inviting artists, ecological scientists and scholars whose work explores the theme of Care & Stewardship to apply for a 2025 residency in Sisters, Oregon (USA). Deadline to apply: June 30^th, 2024.

La Biennale di Venezia is working concretely towards the crucial goal of fighting climate change, by promoting a more sustainable model for the design, installation and operation of all its events.

Peruvian photographer Roberto Huarcaya will represent his country at the Venice Biennale 2024 with his project Cosmic Traces.

Spirit in the Land at Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) is a contemporary art exhibition that examines today’s urgent ecological concerns from a cultural perspective, demonstrating how intricately our identities and natural environments are intertwined.

Open call for the Pastizal Residency, Edition #3 Fungi and Lichens to produce, share, reflect and experience artistic practices and research of interest, in the biodiversity of a Natural Reserve environment. Deadline to apply: March 3, 2024.

The SOM Foundation and the MAK Center for Art and Architecture announce a new Los Angeles-based residency program. Deadline to apply: March 8^th, 2024.

TRANSFER Download: Sea Change at Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), together with TRANSFER is an immersive exhibition that reflects on the accelerating changes across climate, culture, and time.

Spiral for Shared Dreams is Colombian artist Carolina Caycedo’s exhibition at MoMA, presenting 11 handmade atarrayas, or fishing nets, denouncing the impact of hydroelectrical dams and other infrastructure on water bodies.

Presented at Tai Kwun Contemporary, Green Snake: women-centred ecologies gather more than 60 works—16 of them new commissions—from 30 artists and collectives in an exhibition that draws on mythologies and world views with women at their heart to explore possibilities for other ecological relationships.

Life(s) of Webs, arachnophobias, arachnophilias, and other stories is a permanent installation at Chiesa della Madonna del Carmine, Palazzo Lanfranchi by Tomás Saraceno, arrived in Matera, Italy with a project of the Matera Basilicata 2019 Foundation in collaboration with the National Museum of Matera.

MIAMI

Amazonia is a Pinta Miami project curated by Félix Suazo that proposes a visual expedition through the Amazon, crossing countries, cultures and ecological identities. As a Special Project, Amazonia emphasizes Pinta's commitment as an international platform for Latin American art.

Drawing upon biology and new anthropological discourses as conceptual frameworks, Daniel Steegmann Mangrané’s exhibition at Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA) A leaf Shapes the Eye, proposes a holistic worldview in which there is no distinction between humans and their environment, and where relationships between all elements are in constant flux.

The Museum of Modern Art announced Emerging Ecologies: Architecture and the Rise of Environmentalism, an exhibition dedicated to both realized and unrealized projects that address ecological and environmental concerns by architects who practiced in the United States from the 1930s through the 1990s.

Museo Jumex will celebrate its 10th anniversary after a decade of exhibitions and public programs that have established it as an important contemporary art institution in Mexico.

The55project announced the opening of the Collective Show, curated by Josué Mattos at Fundación Pablo Atchugarry.

The Blackwood Gallery at University of Toronto Mississauga presented GUT_BRAIN, an exhibition series inspired by the primary movements of the digestive system: ingestion, propulsion, mechanical breakdown, chemical digestion, absorption, and elimination.

The Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas at Austin presents a special two-part exhibition that explores the history and contemporary urgency of climate-related issues.

Under the title Nature of Hope, the eleventh edition of the International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam (IABR) examines nature, culture and hope from the perspective of architectural thought and action, as a driving force for social change.

In line with the Carbon Neutral 2050 Plan that brings together the main cities of the world –including Buenos Aires– the Museo de Arte Moderno measured its carbon footprint as a first step to know its environmental impact and begin to take measures to reduce it.

Sonoran Quipu is a sprwaling sculpture at Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson composed of natural and human debris collected by indivuals and organizations across the city.

Tomás Saraceno launched in Serpentine South Gallery a living collaborative and multi-species exhibition that delves into how different life forms, technologies and energy systems are connected in the climate emergency.

Everlasting Plastics is the United States Pavilion’s proposal at the Venice Architecture Biennale.

2086: Together now? asks why there is so much isolation at an era where humans are supposed to be hyper-connected through globalization of information, finance, and event culture.