​​ARTEMIS HERBER - Artist in Residence

Artemis Herber shows where we currently stand. Humans have made the world fragile and the collapse shows around each corner as human activities have transform our biosphere. The German-Greek US immigrant artist shows how deep time is transformed into fleeting moments caused by man made interventions. For this she primarily uses matter from geological time or materials that come out of the mining and extortion process of natural resources. In the wider context Herber explores how myths are revealed in the new human made top stratum through metabolic regimes and their tectonic intervention, exploitation, and the use of land.

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Enriched with incorporated geological materials, ancient natural myths, such as Gaia and their relatives, are displayed in her work as hybrid configurations in thematic spaces. These subjects open up a time-spanning look at the relevance of grand narratives in the face of man-made “Erdauflösung“ (Earth disappearance). Currently she works in her eponymous block “Danger Zones” which addresses the worldwide dwindling biosphere as an impact of the Anthropocene and creates a sculptural monument worth seeing.