Press Release
The collective exhibition Animalesque brings together an outstanding selection of artworks—film and video, drawing and sculpture, installation and sound art—which invite the museum visitor to rethink the human position in the world, its relationship to all other forms of life and to the various complex ecologies that bond beings together.
Animalesque : Art Across Species and Beings
Bildmuseet, Umeå University, Umeå (Sweden)
14.06 - 20.10.2019
© ArtCatalyse International / Marika Prévosto 2019. All Rights Reserved
A growing awareness of living on an environmentally fragile planet has led artists to reconsider the role of art in responding to what is happening to our world. Many artists have been rethinking the relationship between humans and nature, the effects of changes to the earth’s climate and the ways in which different species are interrelated within a complex causes-
Participating artists are Allora & Calzadilla (USA/Cuba), Pia Arke (Greenland), David Claerbout (Belgium), Marcus Coates (UK), Mary Beth Edelson (USA), Simone Forti (USA), Luca Frei (Switzerland/Sweden), Pierre Huyghe (France), Carsten Höller (Germany/Sweden), Joan Jonas (USA), Annika Larsson (Sweden), Louise Lawler (USA), Britta Marakatt-
In tandem with the exhibition and throughout its duration there will be a programme of live events featuring talks with artists and experts, as well as film screenings and discussions that further expand and develop the topics of the show.
Pierre Huyghe, Untitled (Human Mask), 2014.