Meet the Reef! Perspective Fine Arts

until January 15, 2024

With artworks by Nina Queissner and Linda Weiß

Curated by Lisa Voigt (Senckenberg) and Ellen Wagner

Senckenberg Society for Nature Research
Senckenberganlage 25
60325 Frankfurt

For the second perspective in “Meet the Reef!” the artists Linda Weiß and Nina M.W. Queissner have been invited to develop an artistic installation combining sound and sculpture.

Their installation “Looking for Medusa” takes the visitors on a journey across past, present, and future mythologies. Its starting point is in antiquity: Based on Ovid’s narrative about the origin of coral, the installation explores possible relations between different ecosystems and mythologies, or understandings of how we humans locate ourselves holistically in the world and the cosmos. By imagining an experimental habitat for speculative coral creatures the artists are asking how corals might be able to exist in future times. The visitors are invited to explore the working process of artistic research and are encouraged to engage with their own stories and questions.