Exhibition | Species, Soil and Successors

Multimedia-exhibition Opening with artworks by Studio 33/3, Devadeep Gupta and Julia Schuster.

Oyouns latest curatorial focus Listening to the Land launches with “Species, Soil and Successors” by Arijit Bhattacharyya, a curatorial project consisting of three chapters.

In its second segment “Soil and Successor”, the project holds space for artistic engagement in peripheral socioecologies. Through a remote artist residency with Studio 33/3, Swagata Bhattacharyya and Binita Limbani, the project confronts us with another reality where climate catastrophe structures everyday life. The resulting multimedia exhibition, which is on display at Oyoun between 15 and 26 July will present audiovisual works of some of the residency artists as well as of the artists Devadeep Gupta and Julia Schuster. Some of the video works will be screened at the launch event on 15 July as well.

We are surviving through an epoch of spiraling ecological devastation, multispecies extinction and military extractivism. The notion of a collective future beyond human existence is still a far imagination. Though imagination is an essential practice. Imagination succors knowledge applicable in problem-solving and is elemental to integrating experiences in learning. How do we imagine a pluriversal multispecies future? "Species, Soil and Successors" imagines framing a complex practice-oriented enquiry into intersectional climate justice by listening to people who are often sidelined. The project tries to imagine a world beyond the colonial touch.

Exhibition opening on 15 July 2023, 14:00 - 21:00 h
From 16 - 26 July daily between 13:00 h and 19:00 h 
@Oyoun Berlin
Lucy-Lameck-Straße 32, 12049 Berlin

Free admission!

Language: English

More info about the artists and the project can be found on our website

Credits

Artistic Director: Madhumita Nandi (Oyoun)

Concept: Madhumita Nandi, Samirah Siddiqui, Oyoun Team

Curatorial Team: Nina Martin (Oyoun), Ihisa Adelio (Oyoun), Dami Choi (Oyoun)

Implementation: Oyoun Team

Curatorial Collective: Madhumita Nandi, Samirah Siddiqui, Camilla Therese Karlsen,Zeren Oruc, Mojisola Adebayo and Nicole Wolf, Arijit Bhattacharyya

Design: Ezequiel Hyon

Species, Soil and Successors: Hillside Projects (Emily Berry Mennerdahl and Jonas Böttern), Devadeep Gupta, Lea Maria Wittich, Nilanjan Bhattacharya, Studio 33/3 (Soumik Ghosh, Shibayan Halder and Suvojit Roy), Julia Schuster

Species, Soil and Successors is part of Oyoun’s curatorial focus Listening to the Land

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