Participating artists:
Jana Kerima Stolzer & Lex Rütten DE | Marlene Creates & Elizabeth Zetlin CA | Nadine Baldow DE | Oliver Gather & Frauke Berg DE | Robyn Love CA | Sarah Joy Stoker CA | Sylvie Ungauer FR
curated by Rona Rangsch
The exhibition brought together seven positions from the field of environmental video art at Saarländisches Künstlerhaus in Saarbrücken. Climate was the theme of our 40th anniversary exhibition and lecture series in 2025, making the video show a natural extension of our guiding motif that year.
First of all, however, curating Of Wounded Lands, Angry Oceans & Queer Resilience was inspired by the MONSTERS'N'GHOSTS project. I approached the assembling and presenting artistic explorations of regenerative reimagination in the Anthropocene as a creative exploration of that kind in its own right. The selected works span a wide spectrum of approaches, visual languages, and genres. Together, they evoke a sensuous and polyphonic meditation on becoming-with on planet Earth as a condition shaped by radical vulnerability and vital perseverance.
The setup combined two monitors and two projections. The larger projection presented four works in series: Madwoman by Robyn Love; River of Rain by Marlene Creates & Elizabeth Zetlin; Sounds for a Wounded Landscape by Oliver Gather & Frauke Berg; and Ephemeral Emergence by Nadine Baldow. On the left monitor, Sylvie Ungauer's Queer Story was shown, while Extinct by Jana Kerima Stolzer and Lex Rütten ran on the right vertical monitor. The smaller projection to the right featured Sarah Joy Stoker's Woven Prayers On Melting Ice.
opening reception; top & bottom left: photos by R. Barmeier; bottom right: photo by A. Bonin, on display: Ephemeral Emergence by Nadine Baldow
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