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Melting Mountains

#critical #hypnotic #immersive #posthuman

Materials and media

Premiere of the Glacier Trilogy in Berlin

exhibition & talks

Year

2024

Exhibition

    • 11th April – 5th May

    • Projektraum MEINBLAU, Christinenstrasse 18-19, 10119 Berlin

What can fluvial systems and glaciers tell us about climate change? What is at stake in terms of how we experience, understand and value water systems? And how can we measure the human impact on these complex water networks?

With her exhibition Melting Mountains, Berlin-based artist Theresa Schubert invites visitors to cultivate a new sensitivity towards the intersection of art and science. ‘The Glacier Trilogy’ focuses on glaciers and the melting of glaciers as starting points of fluvial systems. Glaciers hold an extreme importance not only as storages of water but also as a memory of the earth’s past and as indicators of climate change. Glacial ice archives millennia-old (an)organic information, such as microorganisms, pollen, organic remains, and atmospheric dust, allowing scientists to acquire knowledge about ancient ecosystems and to predict future climate change.

During her residency at Cittadellarte – Fondazione Pistoletto and through an arts & science collaboration within the START4Water programme, Theresa Schubert investigated these fluvial systems in the Piemont area in North-West Italy and started to develop The Glacier Trilogy. Schubert looked/listened and responded with various media technologies to the signals that the environment in the Western Italian Alps produce. Combining advanced computational technologies (such as generative adversarial networks, atmospheric sensors or realtime ice-fluid simulation for 8K) with sculpture materials, the works increase awareness of the fragility of the environment and the transformations due to climate change, stimulating an emotional engagement of the audience. The trio of works that make up ‘The Glacier Trilogy’ are now shown together for the first time at Meinblau in Berlin, accompanied by an extended supporting programme.

  • Events

    Opening on April 11 | 6-10pm

    April 27, 5-6pm | in conversation with Ingeborg Reichle

  • May 5, 5-7pm | in conversation with Tobias Sauter and Adnan & Nina Softić

About the speakers

During the Berlin Gallery Weekend, the renowned art historian and curator of contemporary art,Ingeborg Reichle(Research Institute for Sustainability Helmoltz Centre Potsdam), discusses the theme of the exhibition with Theresa Schubert on 27 April at 5pm. As an expert in modern and contemporary art with a strong focus on the interaction between art, science and ecology, she will provide insight into the contextual framework of the exhibition.For the finissage on May 5th, the artist welcomes three discussion partners: geologist Tobias Sauter, professor at the Humboldt University in Berlin and expert on glaciers, will provide a comprehensive overview of the scientific background. The artist duo Adnan & Nina Softić developed the musical instrument “Klimaton” in 2020, which outputs the data of a research expedition to the Arctic as sound and thus draws a large-scale musical portrait of a changing landscape.

Melting Mountains is funded by the Bezirksamt Pankow of Berlin, Dep. Art and Culture. The artwork was created as part of a STARTS4Water residency funded by the European Commission.

 

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