About
Embracing the arts for systemic change, NaturArchy proposes to re-consider our imaginaries on nature and the non-human.
The Resonances IV exhibition on the theme of NaturArchy probes issues of deep ecology, sustainability and the decolonisation of nature. A number of art and science works explore and query the entanglement of human and non-human, green technologies and new materials, nature and law, ecology and economy, ancient and new knowledge. From global oceans to water flows, from contamination and bacteria to climate tipping points, pollinators, and landscapes of natural hazards; from natural and artificial intelligence to non-human values, forests, lands, soils, composting; from grief and mourning to rituals, wonder and collective action.
Exhibiting Artists
Kristin Bergaust (JRC Artist in Residence)
Gala Berger (JRC Artist in Residence)
Penelope Cain (JRC Artist in Residence)
Yiannis Kranidiotis (JRC Artist in Residence)
Ingrid Mayrhofer-Hufnagl (JRC Artist in Residence)
Sam Nester (JRC Artist in Residence)
Nonhuman Nonsense (JRC Artist in Residence)
Ingrid Ogenstedt (JRC Artist in Residence)
Margherita Pevere (JRC Artist in Residence)
Giovanni Paolo Randazzo (JRC Artist in Residence)
Claus Lam Yong Schoening (JRC Artist in Residence)
Marina Wainer (JRC Artist in Residence)
JD Whitman (JRC Artist in Residence)
Jemma Woolmore (JRC Artist in Residence)
Researchers & Policymakers involved
Guillermo Garcia Sanchez, Evangelos Voukouvalas, Irene Guerrero Fernandez, Alan Belward, Luca de Felice, Graziano Ceddia, Frank Dentener, Elahe Rajabiani, Caterina Cacciatori, Jonah Lynch, Jaime Gomez-Ramirez, Arwyn Jones, Calogero Schillaci, Celine Charveriat, Lucia Iglesias Blanco, Diana Vieira, Julian Keimer, Isabelle Hupont Torres, Andrea Valsesia, Jessica Ponti, Marisa Sarria Pereira de Passos, Danijela Brkovic, Sandra Coecke, Saskia Vermeylen, Alba Bernini, Ana Montero Castano
Public Programme
These works gave rise to activities, workshops and performances throughout the exhibition. We want to allow audiences to relate more directly and engage with the topics, issues, and materialities put forward by these artworks.
Check out the calendar of events related to the exhibition below:
24/05/2024 | Exhibition opening | 17:00 PM CET LaVallee & 19:00 PM CET iMAL, Brussels | OPENING WEEKEND PROGRAMME
25/05/2024 | Compos[t]ing opening | 11:00 AM CET Parc du Cinquantenaire, Brussels | OPENING WEEKEND PROGRAMME
25/05/2024 | AM & PM Synocene workshop by Sam Nester & Marina Wainer | Foret du Soignes, Brussels | EVENT PAGE
25/05/2024 | NOS FUTURS RADIO: Nonhuman lives in Brussels
29/05-30/05/2024 | NaturArchy events @ EU Green Week | Charlemagne building, Brussels | EVENT PAGE
01/06/2024 | NOS FUTURS RADIO + RADIO CAMPUS: Demineralize and revitalize the city
08/06/2024 | NOS FUTURS RADIO + RADIO CAMPUS: On the ruins of capitalis, the Josaphat wasteland
12/06/2024 | Lament performance by Margherita Pevere | 19:00 - 21:00 PM CET | iMAL, Brussels | REGISTER HERE
13/06/2024 | Panel on art and science as tools for wildfire resilience | 10:00 AM -13:00 PM CET | CDMA, Brussels | EVENT PAGE
14/06/2024 | Invisible Seeds workshop by Gala Berger | 16:30 - 18:00 PM CET | iMAL, Brussels | REGISTER HERE
14/06/2024 | Belonging to Land & Country panel discussion | 19:30 - 20:30 PM CET | iMAL, Brussels | REGISTER HERE
15/06/2024 | NOS FUTURS RADIO + RADIO CAMPUS: Justice for green spaces in Brussels
22/06/2024 | NOS FUTURS RADIO + RADIO CAMPUS: The resistance of Belgian agricultural practices
27/06/2024 | These (toxic) relations are forever – PFAS Pollution as a threat to water resilience in the EU | 17:30 - 20 PM CET | LaVallee & iMAL, Brussels | EVENT PAGE
13/07/2024 | NOS FUTURS RADIO + RADIO CAMPUS: Re-enchanting our relationship with the living through art
20/07/2024 | NOS FUTURS RADIO + RADIO CAMPUS: Combining the right to housing and the right to life
28/09-29/09/2024 | Closing weekend: Guided tours by curators at 15:00 on Saturday 28/09 and Sunday 29/09 | Closing panel and discussion 17:00 PM on Sunday 29/09 | Register HERE
About iMAL
iMAL is a space for artistic practices around the creative and critical use of new technologies. iMAL connects a community of artists, thinkers, makers and citizens from Belgium and abroad and offers a completely renewed infrastructure to support a program focussing on research, production and presentation.
It occupies a unique position by connecting contemporary art production with other sectors - locally, nationally and internationally. iMAL seeks to grow, strengthen and diversify this community, informing about (technical) developments, inspiring and encouraging citizens to actively participate in the latest digital cultures, but also empowering them and teaching them to be critical of the challenges associated with the digital revolution.
iMAL uses its unique position as a platform to connect other artists' initiatives, workshops and festivals with a focus on art, science and technology and sees it as its mission to translate these activities into a visible and audience-friendly way, building a bridge between the professional field and a broader public.
More about iMAL on their website.
Practical information
The sculpture Earthbreakers as part of Compos[t]ing is on view at the Cinquantennaire Park until May 2025.
WHERE: iMAL, Art Center for Digital Cultures & Technology, 30 Quai des Charbonnages, Brussels
OPENED: 24/05/2024 | programme | opening panel recording (audio only)
CLOSED: 29/09/2024 | programme
iMAL website: https://www.imal.org/en/events/naturarchy
Exhibition digital guide: https://guide.imal.org/naturarchy/map
Press reviews: https://science-art-society.ec.europa.eu/node/534
Radio programme: NOS FUTURES RADIO ; USMARADIO
Credits & Acknowledgments
An exhibition produced by the SciArt project of the European commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC), with iMAL. Supported by the Belgian Presidency of the Council of the European Union.
Curated by: JRC SciArt, Caterina Benincasa, Claudia Schnugg, Ingeborg Reichle & Adriaan Eeckels, and iMAL, with Paul Dujardin, strategic and artistic advisor JRC SciArt project. Céline Charvériat is curating the public programme running alongside the exhibition.
Graphic design by OSP. The posters use partly bio inks derived from the research project “Ecology of colour” done at KASK, School of Arts, Ghent, Belgium. More information.
Video teasers by Kristina Ianatchkova.
French translations: Sixtine Drossart & iMAL Dutch translations: Michael Meert & William Vanderborght
iMAL team: Élie Bolard, Lucía García, Yannick Antoine
iMAL interns: Louise Wadier, Ismini Kyritsis, Noah Destrée, Ninon Queral
Thanks to Virginia Bernardi for her invaluable work throughout all aspects of this project, Chiara Perucconi and Desislava Stoyanova for their endless support and patience, Desislava Strezova and Magdalena Moracova for support with communication administration and vision, Jolita Butkeviciene for trust and guidance, Fabio Taucer for moving us forward, Jutta Thielen-del-Pozo for her guidance support encouragement and brilliant mind, Lucía García for joining the adventure and believing in the project, Thomas Bernadet and dream crew for making this happen (and how!), Naouma Kourti for being there always, Dario Sciascia for joining us throughout and for the runs and fun, for all the JRC colleagues and researchers for feeding these encounters in art and science4policy with you brilliant knowledge and ideas, Yannick Antoine and Élie Bolard and the iMAL team for the patience and support, and the inumerable people that have helped supported guided sustained and nurtured the project throughout these two and more years of fun and development.