With its motto PLANET LOVE the VIENNA BIENNALE FOR CHANGE 2021 is dedicated to the greatest challenge of our digital age: climate care. PLANET LOVE means a fundamentally new relationship between people and planet, which aims at using the Earth’s resources considerately rather than maximizing their exploitation, and whose approach is characterized by humility, respect, and appreciation of its biological diversity and beauty. Climate care is considered a central aspect of PLANET LOVE and goes far beyond decarbonizing the economy and society: it encompasses the question of how we can build a sustainable foundation for our relationship to the Earth and always involves a social dimension.
The VIENNA BIENNALE FOR CHANGE 2021 with its title PLANET LOVE. Climate Care in the Digital Age will open on 27 May 2021. In exhibitions and discussion projects its organizers—the MAK, the University of Applied Arts Vienna, the Kunsthalle Wien, the Architekturzentrum Wien, and the Vienna Business Agency, as well as the KUNST HAUS WIEN as a new partner and the AIT Austrian Institute of Technology as a non-university research partner—are bringing together visionary designs and exceptional ideas by artists, designers, and architects who make a radical change to our societies and economies irresistible in the interests of PLANET LOVE and sustainable climate care.
The VIENNA BIENNALE FOR CHANGE 2021 aspires to fire our imaginations, promote the vision of ecosocially sustainable societies and economies, and offer innovative ideas and solutions: to mitigate the climate crisis, to restore and preserve ecosystems, to maintain biodiversity, and to use digital technologies for the benefit of the climate and environment. It not only encourages visitors to stop and reconsider but also demands that every sociopolitical force and every individual take resolute action to overcome the climate and ecological crisis.
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All exhibitions and projects
of the VIENNA BIENNALE FOR CHANGE 2021
viennabiennale.org
Curators, Artists, Designers and Architects
of the VIENNA BIENNALE FOR CHANGE 2021
The VIENNA BIENNALE FOR CHANGE 2021: PLANET LOVE. Climate Care in the Digital Age is organized by
MAK – Museum of Applied Arts
University of Applied Arts Vienna / Angewandte Innovation Lab
Kunsthalle Wien
KUNST HAUS WIEN
Az W – Architekturzentrum Wien Vienna Business Agency
Vienna Business Agency
Research partner: AIT Austrian Institute of Technology
Sponsor

Premium Partner of the exhibition CLIMATE CARE: Reimagining Shared Planetary Futures and Cooperation Partner of the project DIGITAL & CIRCULAR. Towards a Circular Society

Premium Sponsor of the exhibition CLIMATE CARE: Reimagining Shared Planetary Futures and Cooperation Partner of the project DIGITAL & CIRCULAR. Towards a Circular Society

Sponsor of the project DIGITAL & CIRCULAR: Towards Circular Society and the conference PLANET MATTERS

Further sponsors and supporters will be announced in the coming weeks on the website of the VIENNA BIENNALE FOR CHANGE 2021 (www.viennabiennale.org).
MAK – Museum of Applied Arts
University of Applied Arts Vienna / Angewandte Innovation Lab
Kunsthalle Wien
KUNST HAUS WIEN
Az W – Architekturzentrum Wien Vienna Business Agency
Vienna Business Agency
Research partner: AIT Austrian Institute of Technology
Sponsor

Premium Partner of the exhibition CLIMATE CARE: Reimagining Shared Planetary Futures and Cooperation Partner of the project DIGITAL & CIRCULAR. Towards a Circular Society

Premium Sponsor of the exhibition CLIMATE CARE: Reimagining Shared Planetary Futures and Cooperation Partner of the project DIGITAL & CIRCULAR. Towards a Circular Society

Sponsor of the project DIGITAL & CIRCULAR: Towards Circular Society and the conference PLANET MATTERS

Further sponsors and supporters will be announced in the coming weeks on the website of the VIENNA BIENNALE FOR CHANGE 2021 (www.viennabiennale.org).
Program (1 Events)
Fri, 03.09.2021–Sat, 04.09.2021
Media
Thomas Bayrle, Greta Thunberg (Blutkörperchen) [Blood Corpuscles], 2019
Pigment print on cotton
© Thomas Bayrle/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
Courtesy the artist and neugerriemschneider, Berlin
CLIMATE CARE: Reimagining Shared Planetary Futures
Thomas Wrede, Rhonegletscher-Panorama II [Rhône Glacier, Panorama II],
2018, carbon print on fine art paper, 80 × 260 cm/120 × 390 cm
Courtesy of Beck & Eggeling
© Thomas Wrede/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
Roya Aghighi, Living photosynthetic textile.
What if textiles were alive and photosynthesized?, 2018
© Roya Aghighi
ECOLOGIES AND POLITICS OF THE LIQUID, SOLID, AND GLOWING
(working title)
Living and non-living things, 1966–2020
© Nkrumah Voli
ECOLOGIES AND POLITICS OF THE LIQUID, SOLID, AND GLOWING
(working title)
Living and non-living things, 1966–2020
© Nkrumah Voli
urbanthinktank_next: Hubert Klumpner and Michael Walczak, studio mobil / think tank station, 2021 © urbanthinktank_next: Hubert Klumpner and Michael Walczak
EAT LOVE: Tomorrow’s Food and Food Spaces
Hut & Stiel – Die Wiener Pilzkultur
(growing mushrooms in used coffee grounds), 2015
© Freunde von Freunden/Philipp Forstner
Key Visual for FOSTER: The Soil and Water Residency, created with Branching Algorithm
© Process – Studio for Art and Design
CLIMATE PANDEMICS (working title)
Kerstin von Gabain, leek (human thigh bone), 2020
© Kerstin von Gabain