Act Like a Lichen: A Queer Fashion Workshop
Workshop by Clizia Moradei (Università Iuav di Venezia, ITA) & Matilda Forssblad (University of Borås, SWE)
The Swedish School of Textiles – University of Borås, Sweden / 02–05/04/2024
Co.Lab Mycelial Space
Project launch of the Co.Lab Mycelial Space
University of Arts Linz, Austria
Closer to Nature. Building with Fungi, Trees, Mud
Architecture and nature inevitably compete for space. That poses a dilemma when resources are finite and the demand for space keeps growing. Besides, we know that the construction sector generates huge waste and emissions. All this has raised issues about the role of architecture: Does it need a shift in perspective?
Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, DE // 16/02–14/10/2024
Call for applications: University Professorship for »Sculpture and Environment«
With the Professorship for “Sculpture and Environment”, the University of Art and Design Linz is establishing a new research focus in the field of artistic practices dealing with the complex entanglements between humans and their biological and social environments.
University of Arts Linz, Austria / Applcation deadline: 26/01/2024
Materiali Radicali / Radical Materials
Seminar by Clizia Moradei, designer and PhD in fashion at IUAV, and Luca Bianucci, project manager Lifematerials – Pangaia Grado Zero
Università Iuav di Venezia, Venice, Italy
Fungi Film Fest 2023
The Fungi Film Fest is the world’s only film festival dedicated to the beauty, weirdness, and human influences of mushrooms, lichens, and micro fungi.
Online via Vimeo / until 03/01/2024
re:natura #03 – Myxos Listening Party
The online compilation offers a variety of ten unique artistic approaches, ranging from phonetic experimentation, electro-acoustic improvisation and poetic translation to Point No Point's exuberant celebration of all things slimy.
Concept & realization: Hendrik Klatte, art Direction: Olga Veer, illustration: Azul Ayala, audio mastering: Jannis Wolff
Entangled Life: The Illustrated Edition
Merlin Sheldrake’s New York Times bestseller, Entangled Life, is now a lavish visual journey into the hidden lives of fungi.
London: Bodley Head / New York: Random House 2023
Ad Minolti. Fables on Abstraction and Fungi
With the exhibition fables of abstraction and fungi, Ad Minoliti transforms the Kunstpalais into an underground realm full of mushrooms, roots and forest creatures.
Kunstpalais Erlangen, Germany / until 04/02/2024
Try, feel, fail. Learn. Think. Play. Observe
In an entanglement of various artistic and practical approaches the group exhibition makes fungi the starting point of a playful and open-ended exploration of relational, non-binary, and ahierarchical concepts of art and knowledge production.
Curated by Mycelial Space // Viktoria – Space for Artistic Research and Social Design, Vienna, 19–25/09/2023
Wiener Pilzfestspiele / Vienna Fungi Festival
In September, when the mushroom season is approaching its peak, MyPilz will make Vienna the capital of fungi with exibitions, films and talks by renowned scientists. Delicious mushroom dishes await you in the restaurants of the Fungi Festival.
Different venues in Vienna, 18–24/09/2023
Mushroom Methods Workshop. New Directions for Researching Fungal Futures
The purpose of this symposium is to bring together fungal experts from social science, humanities, and natural science disciplines, as well as artists, professionals, and members of the interested public from Finland, the Nordics, and beyond to explore how we may produce mushroom knowledge, and for what purposes.
Oulu University, 14–16/08/2023
LET’S BECOME FUNGAL! Mycelium Teachings and the Arts
Based on Conversations with Indigenous Wisdom Keepers, Curators, Feminists, and Mycologists, Let’s Become Fungal! is more than a book: It’s a methodology and a way of thinking that can be activated in communities, networks, and organizations.
Amsterdam: Valiz 2023
RE:SOURCING – Shaping Fungi, DNA and Information through Art and Science
This course focuses on co-creation with fungi. Participants will explore the concept of mycelium as a material for 3D printing, and the implications of working with a living material. The participants will work on creating the substrate to print in 3D with mycelium, and have the opportunity to get to know the fungi they are working with.
FUNKEN Akademie, Chemnitz, Germany, 17/07–14/10/2023
ZOE – A Performative Installation
Noor Stenfert Kroese and Amir Bastani explore with ZOE the possibilities of internal communication between its robotic system and reishi.
Award Winner of the Media Architecture Biennale, Toronto
Here to Pass, Not to Stay
A project by Ludovica Breitfeld in cooperation with Lejla Alagic, Teuta Jonuzi, Sophie Schaffer, Carlotta Siciliani, Julian Siffert, and Daša Vašková // Kollektiv Kaorle Vienna
Mushroom Matters. Pilze, Kunst, Mykoästhetik
Lecture by Ilka Becker within the lecture series Research Matters, Hochschule Mainz, Fachbereich Gestaltung
MYCELECHO | Resonating with Fungi
Within the Milano Design Week, mogu presents an interactive sound installation inviting visitors to reconnect with Nature through a sensorial, explorative and narrative experience among mycelium materials.
Superstudio Più, Milan, IT, 18–23/04/2023
Pitz potz Blitz
A project by Jonas Studer with Ishita Chakraborty, Other Than Human Entity, Silja Dietiker / Christoph Brünggel, Pearlie Frisch, Christian Greutmann
Eck – Raum für Kunst im Speck, Aarau, CH, 15/04–27/05/2023
Es lebt – Konstruktionsmaterialien aus Pilzmyzel
Robert Koeppe holds a PhD in physics, is a multiple company founder, a temporary pastoralist, and a member of Scientists for Future. In 2019, just when he was open to new and meaningful tasks, fungal materials came to him and so he established a working group on the topic at Johannes Kepler University Linz.
University of Art and Design Linz, AT