Touch Nature at Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz

Alex May and Anna Dumitriu’s Fermenting Futures is included in Touch Nature at Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, a multimedia exhibition running from 24 January to 18 May 2025. Bringing together international artists, the exhibition considers the political, economic, ecological, and humanitarian conditions of the Anthropocene, while asking how art might help reshape relationships between human systems and the natural world.

Within that context, Fermenting Futures contributes a specific reflection on yeast biotechnology, environmental repair, and the material consequences of industrial production. Developed with researchers at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna, the work looks at how biotechnological processes move between food, medicine, manufacturing, and sustainability.

The exhibition also places the project within a wider public conversation about climate crisis and environmental degradation. For May, that matters because the work is not only about biotechnology itself, but about how technological systems alter what can be preserved, transformed, or reimagined. Shown here in a strongly ecological frame, Fermenting Futures extends his wider interest in how technology changes what we keep, what we lose, and what we think is real.

Further information is available from the Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz exhibition page.

The exhibition was also covered by Salzburger Nachrichten, in a short review that highlights Fermenting Futures within the wider Touch Nature presentation.