Identity for FOSTER. The Soil and Water Residency
Part of VIENNA BIENNALE FOR CHANGE 2021: Planet Love at the MAK.
The exhibition FOSTER presents newly developed works by artists who participated in the project Foster – The Soil and Water Residency, initiated by Angelika Loderer in 2020. She invited eleven artists to use the space loaned to them as a field for experimenting with the simple andelemental—to support themselves and to conduct research for their own artistic work.
FOSTER (with its connotations of caring for someone not linked by blood or legal obligation) is about engaging with the process of growth and nurture on the interface between independence and precariousness. “The garden is the smallest plot of land in the world and at the same time the totality of the world,” writes Michel Foucault in Of Other Spaces (1967), talking about what he called heterotopias—whereby the garden represents a “real utopia,” a fragile ecology that could flip at any moment, a “paradisiac” state that must be resolutely fought for and constantly cared for.
The exhibition is based on the research and experiences of the artists participating in the Soil and Water Residency project and presents new works developed from their artistic praxis.
A growing, branching Key Visual
The Key Visual for FOSTER is an ever-changing, branched and ramified object. It is generated using an algorithm for simulating natural growth. Based on attraction points distributed in space with varying density, organic shapes emerge resembling human vein structures or leaf patterns. Starting from 12 different positions—a nod to the 12 participating artists—a dynamic, generative process unfolds leading to new results for every iteration.
VIENNA BIENNALE FOR CHANGE 2021
FOSTER – The Soil and Water Residency
May 28 – October 3, 2021
MAK – Museum of Applied Arts
Artists
Dejan Dukic, Luna Ghisetti, Sophie Hirsch, Minna Liebhart, Angelika Loderer, Irina Lotarevich, Roman Pfeffer, Lucia Elena Průša, Aline Sofie Rainer, Hans Schabus, Myles Starr, Edin Zenun
Concept
Angelika Loderer, Marlies Wirth
Curator
Marlies Wirth
