About Hydromedia - Seeing with Water:

Thirteen artists have focused on water and used photographic and acoustic processes to create new perspectives and a new proximity to questions of ecology and climate change. For the works shown in the exhibition Hydromedia - Seeing with Water, they use the existential element of water as a source of inspiration and a flowing medium and deal with the perpetual but very sensitive water cycle, the (endangered) diversity of life in bodies of water and at their borders, and the not always peaceful coexistence of water and humans.

The artworks were developed in 2023 and 2024 duringthree site-specific work phases. As hosts, the Royal Academyof Fine Arts in Antwerp, the Utrecht University of theArts and the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design havenot only organized the artist residencies, but also symposia,excursions, workshops, local exhibitions and initiated an intensive exchange between the art world, science andthe public. All three locations and all twelve artists now are coming together for the first time in the Technological Collections.

The final show opening on November 22, 2024 marks the end of an EU-funded cooperation project between the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp, the Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht and the Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe (Prof. Susanne Kriemann, Vanessa Bosch, Prof. Matthias Bruhn).

Parallel to the exhibition, there will be an exciting accompanying program with workshops and lectures. You can find more information here

Present guests on opening night:

• Annekatrin Klepsch, Mayor for Culture, Science and Tourism of the state capital Dresden
• Prof. Dr. Dietrich Borchardt, Head of the Research Unit "Water Resources and Environment", Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ
• Roland Schwarz, Museum Director of the Dresden Technical Collections

PUBLICATION The project offers a final publication curated by two HfG Alumane Johanna Schäfer and Bruno Jacoby, available with the opening of the exhibition.

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS Mirja Busch, Alexandra Crouwers, Tim Theo Deceuninck, Sascha Herrmann, Mariko Hori, Arja Hop & Peter Svenson, Jarek Lustych, Jiajia Qi, Alina Schmuch, Sanne Vaassen, Meng-Chan Yu and Luiz Zanotello

CURATORS Vanessa Bosch (HfG Alumni), Taco Hidde Bakker

ORGANISERS HfG Karlsruhe: Prof. Susanne Kriemann, Prof. Dr. Matthias Bruhn, Vanessa Bosch

More info also on: https://www.hydromedia.org/