Tag: art
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Lunch Lecture: ‘More Than Material: Living Plants as Artistic Collaborators’ – Dr. Minna Valjakka (27 October 2026)
On Tuesday, 27 October 2026, Dr. Minna Valjakka will deliver a lunch lecture at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, discussing the increasing attention to working with living plants among East and Southeast Asian artists. Building on her ongoing study Plants, Knowledge, and Contemporary Arts in East and Southeast Asia, she will discuss…
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EHC Welcomes Three New PhD Candidates
Category: NewsThe Environmental Humanities Center welcomes three new PhDs who have started as of this September. Aldo Esparza Ramos and Leon Lapa Pereira in the project JUST ART: Creating Common Grounds for Climate Justice Through Artistic Research, and Karmen Samson in the project Synthetic Adventures: (un)sustainability and (dis)comfort in the design,…
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JUST ART Roundtable: What Can Art Do For Climate Justice?
Category: EventsOur JUST ART consortium is organizing an evening roundtable discussion on “What can art do for climate justice?” on Thursday 17 September at 19.00 – 20.30 CEST. You are very welcome to join the event in Groningen or follow the discussion online! See our website for more details.
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Workshop: ‘Weathering Together’ – Astrida Neimanis (2 July 2026)
Category: EventsWhat does it mean to weather, together? Climate change bears down on us not only as an atmospheric event but as a political, social, and embodied reality, one that is felt unevenly across different bodies, communities, and landscapes. In this workshop, feminist environmental scholar Astrida Neimanis guides participants through the concept…
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Online event: ‘Arts & The Environmental Humanities’ (13 May 2026)
Category: EventsWhat does it mean to do environmental humanities with or through the arts? This online event brings together researchers and practitioners working at this intersection. When: Wednesday 13 May 2026, 14:15-15:30 Where: Online (click on online for a link to the Zoom)as well as atThe Greenhouse Center for Environmental HumanitiesUniversity…
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New research project: ‘Troubling Pigments (after Polke)’ – Dr. Kyveli Mavrokordopoulou
Category: News‘Troubling Pigments (after Polke)’ is a new research project by Dr. Kyveli Mavrokordopoulou, funded by the Anna Polke Stiftung. It investigates the ecological and social histories of eight pigments from Polke’s monochrome paintings at the Stedelijk Museum. The project involves Rijksakademie alumni and will conclude with a public presentation in…
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ART SCIENCE dialogue: Technology and Plants
Category: UncategorizedWe envision a world where both natural and artificial environments, not only coexist but thrive in harmony. Can this be a possible reality or will it remain just a vision? EHC board member Petra van Dam will moderate the final ART SCIENCE dialogue related to Life of Plants: Špela Petrič…
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ART SCIENCE dialogue Plant effect on Humans
Category: UncategorizedIn collaboration with the Amsterdam Sustainability Institute and the Environmental Humanities Center Amsterdam, the VU ART SCIENCE gallery has invited scientists to take part in a moderated dialogue with the artists exhibited in Life of Plants. The ART SCIENCE dialogues explore the multifaceted relationship between humans and plants. In the third ART SCIENCE dialogue…
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EHC Environmental Justice Series: Ola Hassanain on Waters. Watching Temporalities
Category: UncategorizedPerformance and Panel Discussion (co-sponsored by Greenhouse Stavanger) Monday 11 December, 18.00hrs Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Main Building, Church Hall (HG-16A00) Ola Hassanain’s “Tell The Water What The Clay Kept Secret” is ongoing visual research that grapples extensively with the ‘spatial’ implications of catastrophe. The work, conceptualized from an ongoing poetics…
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Artistic performance about basking shark hunting
Category: UncategorizedTags: animal studies, archive, art, baking shark, endangered species, environmental humanities, sadie haleThis Saturday, 29 October, former EHC board member Sadie Hale and former UvA student and artist Miriam Sentler will collaborate in a performance at Looiersgracht 60, Amsterdam. The performance takes as its subject the elusive basking shark, a large shark that migrates to the waters around the Hebrides in Scotland…