Wunderkammer BioArt at Kunsthaus Wiesbaden
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Fermenting Futures and Biotechnology from the Blue Flower were presented at Kunsthaus Wiesbaden in an exhibition exploring bioart through fermentation, genetics, and material transformation.
Fermenting Futures and Biotechnology from the Blue Flower were presented in Wunderkammer BioArt: Works by Anna Dumitriu and Alex May at Kunsthaus Wiesbaden, where the exhibition ran from 7 April to 24 June 2022. Curated by Heike Sutter and Prof. Dr. Viola Hildebrand-Schatt, the show brought together recent work by Dumitriu and May around biotechnology, material process, and the shifting boundary between scientific research and artistic form.
The exhibition placed two distinct but connected projects into dialogue. Fermenting Futures considers how yeast biotechnology might be redirected towards less destructive futures, while Biotechnology from the Blue Flower moves between Romantic symbolism, gene editing, sculpture, and augmented reality. Seen together, the works made clear how May uses technological and biological systems not as spectacle, but as ways of thinking about change, preservation, and the unstable forms through which meaning is carried.
In that setting, the exhibition also highlighted a wider strand in May’s practice: the use of mediated systems to ask what is retained, transformed, or lost as materials pass between history, culture, and technical process. At Kunsthaus Wiesbaden, bioart became less a display of novelty than a careful reflection on memory, inheritance, and the realities that technology helps to remake.