Art exhibition Moving Ecologies on display at Hanken
You can find the entire programme for the SDG week on the Hanken website.
Moving Ecologies is a group exhibition featuring works by artists Alejandra Alarcón, Vedran Brnjetić, Kriti Kumari and Veronika Vegesent. The exhibition explores the evolving relationship between nature, biodiversity and human communities in a changing world.
Through their works, the artists examine how ecosystems and cultures are shaped and transformed through interaction, and how biological and cultural diversity together form an important foundation for a sustainable future.
“Through the art exhibition during the SDG Week, we continue Hanken’s long tradition of displaying art on campus. The aim of this exhibition, too, has been to inspire students, researchers and staff to consciously challenge themselves in the way they think about sustainability. What is remarkable about these works is how they can simultaneously be contradictory, provocative, beautiful and at times unsettling,” says Nikodemus Solitander, associate dean of sustainability at Hanken.
The art gallery opening will take place in Hanken's main building in Helsinki on 22 September at 3 p.m. The artists will be present at the event, which is open to Hanken students and staff.
Alejandra Alarcón is a Mexican artist based in Helsinki, working at the intersection of food and art. Her interest in sustainability, particularly its social, political, cultural and ecological dimensions, is informed by a decolonial and ecofeminist approach to knowledge production.
Kriti Kumari is an Indian-born artist currently studying at the University of the Arts Helsinki. Guided by the principle “by nature, from nature, for nature”, her artistic practice is slow, meditative and rooted in ecological consciousness.
Veronika Vegesent is a conceptual artist based in Helsinki. Drawing on Michel Foucault's theory of biopolitics and critiques of anthropocentrism, her work explores how power shapes the value assigned to different forms of life and how certain lives are rendered invisible.
Vedran Brnjetić is a photographer from Espoo. Originally from rural Croatia, he has witnessed both the beauty of pristine nature and humanity's imprint upon it, from footprints in the snow to the lasting scars left by the wars of the 1990s in his childhood memories.
Globe Art Point is a non-profit organisation dedicated to promoting diversity, equity and inclusion within the arts and cultural sector.
Text: Marlene Günsberg
Fotografierna av Vedran Brnjetić ingår i utställningen