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STANLEY YANKOWSKI,
SMITHSONIAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY

Maria Popova, The Marginalian

The mesmerizing photomicroscopy of trees – otherworldly images revealing the cellular structure of wood specimens.

GEORGE PERRY AND JOHN CLARKE

Maria Popova, The Marginalian

Conchology, or, the Natural History of Shells: Stunning 19th-Century Illustrations from the World’s First Pictorial Encyclopedia of Mollusks

IAN CHENG: BOB

The Serpentine

Ian Cheng populated the Serpentine with artificial life in a two-part exhibition, starting with BOB (6th March–22nd April 2018) and continued with Emissaries (24th April–28th May 2018).

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AGNES DENES: TREE MOUNTAIN - A LIVING TIME CAPSULE-11,000 TREES, 11,000 PEOPLE, 400 YEARS, 1992-96

Agnes Denes' online portfolio

A huge manmade mountain measuring 420 meters long, 270 meters wide, 38 meters high and elliptical in shape was planted with eleven thousand trees by eleven thousand people from all over the world.

AGNES DENES, WHEATFIELD – A CONFRONTATION, 1982

Phoebe Habon, Architectural Digest

In an act of protest against climate change and economic inequality, Denes planted a massive wheatfield in a landfill in downtown Manhattan. Nearly 40 years later her message reverberates with a poignant urgency.

ANA MENDIETA

Artnet

Ana Mendieta was a Cuban-American performance artist, video-artist, and sculptor interested in the relationship between the female body and nature. Her works with photographs and video footage of her own body camouflaged in a natural environment...

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TOMÁS SARACENO'S SOLAR-POWERED HOT AIR BALLOON

Naomi Rea, Artnet

Environmental Artist Tomás Saraceno Successfully Flies a Solar-Powered Hot Air Balloon Over Argentina, Breaking Six World Records

HIMALAYAN MUSEUM AND SUSTAINABLE PARK TURNING TOURIST LITTER INTO ART

Caroline Goldstein, Artnet

A Museum in the Himalayas Has a Solution for the Tons of Trash Climbers Leave on Mount Everest: Turn It Into Art

SPENCER TUNICK, DEAD SEA 8 (2011)

Lorena Muñoz-Alonso, Artnet

Spencer Tunick Revisits Dead Sea Installation to Highlight Environmental Damage

The water levels in the Dead Sea are dropping dramatically.

ANNA ZEMÁNKOVÁ (1908 - 1986)

Christian Berst

Condemned to the silent contemplation of the rising day, astonishing vegetation slowly grew in her: at dawn, this family mother, in a trance, picked strange flowers in thought, that she later made bloom on paper.

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NATALIE JEREMIJENKO, "LETS TEACH FISH TO TEXT"

Jonah Weiner, The New York Times

Four years ago, the Australian-born artist Natalie Jeremijenko stood at the edge of Pier 35 in Downtown Manhattan, trying to start a conversation with some striped bass. Just north of the Manhattan Bridge, she and several collaborators dropped 16 tall buoys into the East River. The buoys were fitted with submersible sensors that monitored water quality and with LEDs that flashed when fish swam by, charting the Piscean passage.

DR ALEXANDRA DAISY GINSBERG

Dr Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg's online portfolio

Dr Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg is an artist examining our fraught relationships with nature and technology. Through artworks, writing, and curatorial projects, Daisy’s work explores subjects as diverse as artificial intelligence, exobiology, synthetic biology, conservation, biodiversity, and evolution, as she investigates the human impulse to “better” the world.

PLAYING NATURE: ALENDA Y. CHANG ON GAMING'S ROLE IN THE CLIMATE CRISIS

The Serpentine, Kay Watson

An interview with Alenda Y. Chang, writer, academic and contributor to Artist Worlds about the relationship between video games and the natural world and the role that play can have in confronting the climate emergency.

CATHARSIS, JAKOB KUDSK STEENSEN 2020

Jakob Kudsk Steensen online portfolio

Catharsis is a large-scale, immersive installation that pulls audiences into a digital simulation of a re-imagined old-growth forest. This imaginary forest has existed undisturbed for hundreds of years, free from human intervention and suffused with birdsong.

MEL CHIN

Mel Chin online portfolio

Mel Chin was born in Houston, Texas in 1951. Chin’s art, which is both analytical and poetic, evades easy classification. Chin also insinuates art into unlikely places, including destroyed homes, toxic landfills, and even popular television, investigating how art can provoke greater social awareness and responsibility.

Research Archive: Meet the Team

MARUJA MALLO

Ortuzar Projects

Born in rural Galicia, Spain in 1902, Mallo moved to Madrid in 1922 to receive art training. She quickly became a central figure in the Generation of ’27, an interdisciplinary group of the Spanish avant-garde that included Salvador Dalí, Federico García Lorca and Luis Buñuel. Mallo, like her contemporaries, was politically engaged in both art and life.

WANGECHI MUTU

Victoria Miro

Exploring and subverting cultural preconceptions of the female body and the feminine, in her works Wangechi Mutu proposes worlds within worlds, populated by powerful hybridised female figures.