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Environment 30 November 2022

German Artist collective Common Views imagines the German capital as Biosphere Berlin and calls for a radical, city-wide social-ecological vision for the future. One of the inspirations is the UK's Brighton, which is the first and only major city in the world to be incorporated into a biosphere reserve. Could Berlin be next?

The Climate Museum PopUp ©Sari Goodfriend

Environment, Oct. 13, 2022

Climate Museum News - first U.S. climate museum opens first pop-up in Soho featuring work by David Opdyke, "Someday, all this mural." It features 400 hand-edited vintage postcards to comment on the impact of the climate crisis on the American landscape.

Reinhold Messner at Zeche Zollverein ©Brost Stiftung

Düsseldorf, Environment, February 26, 2023

Reinhold Messner on his book "Sinnbilder" and his intellectual impulse renunciation. At Zeche Zollverein in Essen on February 23, 2023, NRW Minister President Hendrik Wüst and mountaineering legend Reinhold Messner discussed ways to protect nature and deal with climate change in front of more than 200 guests, including numerous schoolchildren. An exclusive interview with Alethea Mag.

Eden Project in Cornwall ©Eden Project

Art Calendar / Environment, 20 October 2022

Eden News: Eden Curator Hannah Hooks in an exclusive interview about the Super Natural exhibition and the role of artists in the Eden Project. In the gigantic biomes of the Eden Project, currently the largest greenhouses in the world, all the different climate zones are reconstructed. Art also plays a prominent role, as Hannah Hooks, Eden Project curator, elaborates. Eden Project aims to bring artists together with environmental thought leaders, such as researchers and scientists for a cultural exchange to develop a shared vision for a sustainable planet.

Nicola Green's art globe The World in a Water Lily, Amazonica ©Nicola Green

Environment 27 September 2022

Nicola Green's interview on her art globe The World in a Water Lily, Amazonica.

In the UK wide art project The World Reimagined, over 100 art globe sculptures were created to show the UK artists' exploration of the consequences of the transatlantic trade in enslaved Africans.

Nicola Green's art globe The World in a Water Lily, Amazonica ©Nicola Green

HA Schult: Birth Day of Trash Art

©Thomas Lüttge

HA Schult: Birth Day of Trash Art

©Thomas Lüttge

CULL ©Uta Kögelsberger

Environment, 13 July 2022

Uta Kögelsberger

The £25,000 Charles Wollaston Award for "most outstanding work has been awarded to artist Uta Kögelsberger for her video work CULL in the Royal Academy's 254th Summer Exhibition. Exclusive interview. Read more in Alethea Talks

Environment, 1. November 2022

Artist Talk - HA Schult und Christa Steinle - "Wir können die Gedanken der Menschen beeinflussen, aber nicht ihr Tun. H A Schult am 18. November beim Circular Valley in Wuppertal." Alethea Magazine hat die Ehre, einen Artist-Talk wiederzugeben, den HA Schult mit der österreichischen Kunsthistorikerin und damaligen Direktorin des Grazer Joanneum Museums, Dr. Christa Steinle am 7.10.2006 im Palais Herberstein führte. English version of the artist talk below.

©Piers Secunda

Art, August 8, 2021

Piers Secunda: "If there is one message that I hope resounds through these works, it's that the eggshell thin walls of our museums, are only as strong as our willingness to protect them." Read more in Alethea Talks

©Stephan Kaluza

Art, April 15, 2022

Stephan Kaluza: "I put forward the thesis that culture only became possible through the destruction of nature. Furthermore, I think that artistic work does not originate from culture, but from nature." On the occasion of his exhibition "Fiction / Non-Fiction

Read more on Alethea Talks

©Michael Pinsky

Art, August 13, 2022

Michael Pinsky: "We are at the point of ecological collapse if we don't do something incredibly soon and incredibly dramatically. So, it is also the last bid for the planet." On occasion of "The Final Bid" at Draiflessen Collection. Read more in Alethea Talks

Habitats Maison Ruinart -Nils-Udo ©Copyright Maison Ruinart

Environment, 28 July 2022

Nils-Udo builds Habitats in the Taissy vineyard of Maison Ruinart. Nils-Udo is known for his bird's nest artworks. Here in Taissy, they are part of a pilot experiment in vine reforestation. Since 2021, more than 12,000 trees and bushes have been planted to diversify and revitalise the ecosystem.

©Vanessa Daws

Art Calendar, 3 August 2022

Water artist Vanessa Daws - At Home in the Water. The English artist tells the story of Mercedes Gleitze , the first Englishwoman to swim the English Channel. Sea swimming has become a popular event since Corona and it is in this setting that Vanessa Daws stages her artworks. 15 October to 27 November 2022. Where: Fabrica in Brighton

Documenta Five, 1972 ©HA Schult

Art - 10 June 2022 - by C. Mauer

HA Schult - war - Krieg. HA Schult has been on a mission to protect the environment for over 50 years. He is the first signatory of the „Offenen Briefs an Kanzler Olaf Scholz“ of 29 April 2022, opposing arms deliveries to Ukraine out of concern for a Third World War in the context of the Ukraine conflict. Impressions of his works since 1972.

Adalbert Jahnz ©European Union, 2020

Environment 17 May 2022

The New European Bauhaus - "Sustainability is something beautiful and comprehensive". Artists and cultural workers are the key to the realisation of the New European Bauhaus (NEB). An open project for creative people! Read more on Alethea Talks

Smog Free Project Tianjin - Photocredit Hasy - ©Daan Roosegaarde

Environment & Art - 19 June 2022

SMOG FREE TOWER by Daan Roosegaarde - June 2022

Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg as the plants were sown. Image: Steve Tanner

Environment & Art, 27 March 2022

Pollinator Pathmaker - the largest living artwork ever created for climate change mitigation blooms in spring. Alethea & Art previously reported when Pollinator Pathmaker - a 55-foot-long living artwork by Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg was planted in the fall of 2021.

HA Schult Wall of Freedon ©Ansagr Van Treeck

Art - 1 Mai 2022

HA Schult Wall of Freedom - Freedom in the words of Drew Hammond

HA Schult’s Wall of Freedom is on permanent view at AQ 7, a division of the Andreas Quartier at the junction of Neubrückstrasse and Ratingerstrasse. Freiheit in den Worten von Drew Hammond.

©Daan Roosegaarde

Environment - March 22, 2022

WATERLICHT by Daan Roosegaarde in Loevestein Castle

on 25/26 March 2022

The power and poetry of water - installation by environmental artist and activist Daan Roosegaarde back in the Netherlands after its world tour. Just in time for the United Nations World Water Day.

Surreal but the reality in Cologne - The golden Flügelauto - Goldener Vogel Nacht ©Thomas Hoepker

Environment 2022 - By C. Mauer

Art, Vision and Investment - "Art is Life" - HA Schult's Plans for the Zeughaus Köln and the City of Cologne

"Art is Life Building" and "Art is Life Cologne".

Wertgigant from HA Schult ©Ansgar M. van Treeck

Environment, 18 November

HA Schult presents the Wertgigant in Berlin, Schinkelplatz in Berlin - only until 19 November 2021

HA SCHULT AND HIS BERLIN

David Maisel ©Lynn Fontana
David Maisel : "Beauty is an interesting word. Some viewers of my work ask how I can make something that is so ugly look so beautiful. Beauty can be challenging, beauty can be threatening, but it forces you to stay with it." Read more on Alethea Talks

Environment, 22 December 2021

The Climate Museum in New York - Interview with Saskia Randle and Anais Reyes. Museums are the vehicle for social and political engagement, and can create significant change.