Claudius Schulze (*1984) serves the Klima Biennale Wien as artistic director. He holds degrees om Conflict Analysis & Resolution (M.A., Sabanci University, Istanbul) and Documentary Photography & Photojournalism (M.A. with distinction, University of the Arts London) and is pursuing a practice-led Ph.D. on machine cognition & sensing and the Anthropogenic Extinction Crisis.

As an artist and researcher, his interest lies in nature, technology, and the consequences of Global Change. In his studio, he collaborates with a diverse team of educators, engineers, and designers to create unique, site specific installations, bridging the analogue/digital divide. His work is regularly published and exhibited internationally. It is held by various private and public collections.

Most recently, he implemented FIDS Open Research Lab (Elbkulturfonds 2022, Hamburg Germany), an artistic research vessel logging the impact of noise and light pollution in the Port of Hamburg and the effect on bird behaviour using advanced image recognition and Artificial Intelligence.

Together with Sithara Pathirana, Claudius Schulze initiated the first international biennial for nature, climate at the anthropogenic changes to the earth system in Hamburg. He served the first edition 2022, titled ClimateArtFest as the artistic director.

Filipa Ramos, PhD, is Lecturer at the master’s program of the Institute Art Gender Nature HGK Basel FHNW and runs the Art & Nature seminars. She is a writer and curator. Her research focuses on how art and culture address ecology, in particular the modes in which contemporary art fosters interspecies relationships across humans and other animals. Filipa Ramos is curator of Art Basel Film and a founding curator of Vdrome, a program of screenings of films by visual artists and filmmakers. She co-curated, with Lucia Pietroiusti, Persones Persons, the 8th Biennale Gherdëina (2022) and Bodies of Water, the 13th Shanghai Biennale (2021). In the past, she was Associate Editor of Manifesta Journal and contributed for Documenta 13 (2012) and 14 (2017). She authored Lost and Found (Silvana Editoriale, 2009) and edited Animals (Whitechapel Gallery/MIT Press, 2016). She is curator of Bestiari, the Catalan Presence at the 2024 Venice Biennale.

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Songs for the Changing Seasons

Direktorin KunstHausWien & Veranstalterin der Klima Biennale Wien

Gerlinde Riedl took over as director of KunstHausWien in June 2022. Under her leadership, the museum will be sustainably renovated until February 2024 and the permanent exhibition on Friedensreich Hundertwasser will be reorganised. Together with Christoph Thun Hohenstein (Vienna Biennale for Change), Riedl initiated the Vienna Climate Biennale, which is funded by the City of Vienna's departments for climate, culture and economy.

With the new art festival and its focus on contemporary exhibitions and educational formats on the theme of Man and Nature, KunstHausWien continues its pioneering ecological role as Austria's first green museum.

gerlinde.riedl@kunsthauswien.com

Produktion

hannah.horn@biennale.wien

Laleh Monsef

laleh.monsef@biennale.wien
M: +43 664 88 21 81 03

Eventbetreuung 

lina.binder@biennale.wien 

Lucia Pietroiusti is Head of Ecologies at Serpentine, London. As a curator, programmer and organisational strategist, she works at the intersection of art, ecology and systems, often outside of the exhibition space. Ecologies at Serpentine is a holistic initiative and purpose-led department aimed at embedding environmental responsibility throughout the organisation’s infrastructure, operations, networks and programming. Pietroiusti was the founder of Serpentine’s General Ecology project, and the curator of Sun & Sea (Lithuanian Pavilion, 2019 Venice Biennale and ongoing tour). Together with Filipa Ramos, she is the curator of Persones Persons (8th Biennale Gherdeïna, 2022) and The Shape of a Circle in the Mind of a Fish (2018-ongoing). Pietroiusti is also a curator of Back to Earth (Serpentine, 2020-22), and Infinite Ecologies Marathon (2023-24). Recent publications include More-than-Human (with Andrés Jaque and Marina Otero Verzier) and Microhabitable (with Fernando García-Dory).

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Songs for the Changing Seasons

Sithara Pathirana (*1987) is responsible for the program of the Climate Biennale Vienna, which includes the festival's framework, educational and outreach activities, and collaborations within the city. She studied English/American Studies (M.A., Karl-Franzens University, Graz) and "Culture and Media Management" (M.A., University of Music and Theatre, Hamburg). As a project and cultural manager, her focus lies in cultural education, particularly in the areas of cultural participation and educational justice.

She served as a speaker at the Hamburg Association for Children and Youth Culture. As an art festival producer, she previously worked at events such as the steirischer herbst, the Hamburger Kulturgipfel, and the Triennale der Photographie Hamburg, where she conceptualized and co-managed the OFF TRIENNALE in 2018 and the Triennale Expanded in 2022.

Together with Claudius Schulze, Sithara Pathirana initiated the first international art biennale for nature, climate, and anthropogenic changes in the Earth's system called ClimateArtFest Hamburg.

Sophie Haslinger is a curator and author with a focus on contemporary photography and ecological topics. She has been a curator at Kunst Haus Wien since 2022, where she in charge of developing the exhibition program. Prior to that, she was an assistant curator at the same institution, as well as a collaborator on the photography festival Foto Wien. Additionally, she has curated dozens of independent projects in galleries, off-spaces, and exhibition spaces. Sophie Haslinger has a master’s degree in art history and communication studies from the University of Vienna, and was a curatorial research fellow at the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago. She regularly writes for exhibition catalogs, art books, and magazines.

sophie.haslinger@kunsthauswien.com

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Into the Woods