Agnes Meyer-Brandis

Agnes Meyer-Brandis brings the audience into a multi-sensory interaction with trees.

Agnes Meyer-Brandis (b. 1973) has long observed trees, forests and the atmosphere, whose complex and peculiar phenomena could, without her art, easily go unnoticed. Wandering trees, forest colour and the scents emitted by trees are examples of topics that Meyer-Brandis has explored artistically and in dialogue with natural scientists in Finland and around the world. 

A fruitful collaboration with the with the Hyytiälä Forest Station of the University of Helsinki in Pirkanmaa and the Climate Whirl Arts Program began in 2013, and the exhibition will be the world premiere of a multi-channel video work, Wandering Tree, filmed in 2021–2024 in Ruovesi, in the protected Siikaneva fen. The exhibition is curated by Ulla Taipale.

The creation of the works in the exhibition has been supported by: 
Finnish Cultural Foundation / Tampere Region 
The Alfred Kordelin Foundation
INAR (Centre for Atmospheric and Earth System Sciences), University of Helsinki
ACCC – Centre of Excellence for Atmosphere and Climate 
Hyytiälä Forest Station, University of Helsinki 
Taike, Arts Promotion Centre Finland

Image: Agnes Meyer-Brandis, From the Department of Smallness / Spoon Laboratory, 2013. ⓒ Agnes Meyer-Brandis, VG Bildkunst, 2024.