Artistic perspective of the three-part exhibition series "Meet the Reef!"
Thursday, June 1st 2023 at 7 p.m. (admission from 6:30 p.m.)
Senckenberg Naturmuseum Frankfurt
Senckenberganlage 25
60325 Frankfurt am Main
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The artists Linda Weiß and Nina M. W. Queissner have been invited to develop an artistic installation combining sound and sculpture as part of the "Meet the Reef!" exhibition series. Their intervention “Looking for Medusa” takes the visitors on a journey across past and future mythologies. Starting with Ovid’s Metamorphoses, references between cosmologies and ecosystems interweave to create an experimental habitat for speculative future coral creatures. The visitors are invited to explore the working process of artistic research and are encouraged to engage with their own stories and questions.
Nina M. W. Queissner (b. 1990, Darmstadt) has studied Fine Arts, electro-acoustic Music and Sound Art in France and in Belgium. Her practice articulates through installation, video and performance works, as well as sound recording- and design and composition for cinema sound and radio-broadcasts.
Linda Weiß (b. 1987, Hanau) studied Fine Arts at the Offenbach University of Art and Design and graduated at the Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart as Meisterschülerin in 2022. In her mixed media installations, everyday culture intertwines with socio-ecological metabolisms.
Brigitte Franzen and Ellen Wagner will open the evening, followed by the artists Nina M.W. Queissner and Linda Weiß presenting their work. We are very pleased to welcome the author and director Helga Utz as guest speaker at the opening. Drinks and snacks will be served at the bar.
The exhibition plan is part of the research project Temporary Permanence (TemPe) - Innovative and Flexible Mediation of Current Socially Relevant Topics in Permanent Exhibitions.
We would like to thank the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) for funding and our project partner institutions, the German Institute for Adult Education - Leibniz Centre for Lifelong Learning (DIE) and the Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT), for supporting the content.