Baden Baden Satellite Reef – The Deep. At Musee Cantonal des Beaux Arts Lausanne, 2024.

During Fall/Winter 2024 the Baden Baden Satellite Reef is featured in the exhibition Thalassa Thalassa: Imagery of the Sea at Musee Cantonal des Beaux Arts Lausanne. This elegant show includes hundreds of paintings, drawings, etchings, photographs, films, and installations depicting the ocean by artists and scientists across the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. The epic Baden Baden Satellite Reef is the final, climatic work, in this power-packed 2-floor show and occupies fully a quarter of the exhibition space.

Exhibition Curators: Catherine Lepdor, chief curator, MCBA, and Danielle Chaperon, professor of French literature, University of Lausanne, with the help of Camille de Alencastro, research assistant, MCBA

See here for more information, plus a gallery of installation photos.

Baden Baden Satellite Reef – detail.

The Baden Baden Satellite Reef is a massively collaborative artwork created in 2022 by Christine Wertheim and Margaret Wertheim at Museum Frieder Burda working in association with the people of Germany. Incorporating around 40,000 coral pieces by 4,000+ crafters across the German speaking world, the work was co-curated with a remarkable group of local crafters: Kathrin Dorfner, Martina Schulz, Christina Humpert, Charlotte Reiter, Susan Reiss and Silke Habich. See here for a PDF of all 4,000+ contributors.

Artists in the MCBA Exhibition:
Louis Ducros, Eugen von Ransonnet-Villez, Arnold Böcklin, François Bocion, Ary Renan, Bolesław Biegas, Edward Burne-Jones, Alphonse Osbert, Jean-Francis Auburtin, Alexandre Séon, Albert Marquet, René-Xavier Prinet, Félix Vallotton, Maurice Pillard-Verneuil, Jean Painlevé, Pierre Boucher, Germaine Martin, Man Ray, Max Ernst, Pascal-Désir Maisonneuve, Marcel Broodthaers, Ad van Denderen, Lubaina Himid, Caroline Bachmann and Stefan Banz, François Burland, Miriam Cahn, Sandrine Pelletier, Margaret Wertheim et Christine Wertheim, Yael Bartana

Miniature coral “Pod Worlds”. Photo courtesy Schlossmuseum Linz.

An installation incorporating seven of our miniature coral Pod Worlds is included in the exhibition Seeing the Unseeable: Data, Design, Art  at Alyce de Roulette Williamson Gallery, ArtCenter College of Design. This show is part of the Getty Museum’s PST ART: Art and Science Collide slate of exhibitions held in southern California during fall/winter 2024-2025. For more about the show see here.

Exhibition Curators: Julie Joyce, Stephen Nowlin, Christina Valentine

Artists in the Exhibition: Refik Anadol, Laurie Frick, Hyojung Seo, George Legrady, Rafael Lozano Hemmer, Giorgia Lupi and Ehren Shorday, Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle, Sarah Morris; Data to Discovery: Santiago Lombeyda and Hillary Mushkin; Mimi Ọnụọha; Semiconductor: Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt; Linnéa Gabriella Spransy; Mika Tajima; Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg; Peggy Weil; Christine Wertheim, Margaret Wertheim and the Institute For Figuring.

IFF director Margaret Wertheim is giving a talk about the Crochet Coral Reef at the 2025 College Art Association conference (NYC) as the closing event of the annual “Day of Panels” hosted by The Feminist Art Project. Each year TFAP chooses a theme  “Feminism and Art and X” – this year it’s “Feminism and Art and Science.”

Describing their impulse, the organizer say: “Art Historian Linda Nochlin has stated that, ‘feminist art history is there to make trouble, to call into question, to ruffle feathers in the patriarchal dovecotes.’ This event is dedicated to women who are troublemakers, and whose creative practice references science as a source of inspiration for writing, research, curating and art making.”

In this spirit Ms Wertheim’s talk is titled Crochet Coral Reef: Crafting Against Patriarchy in Science and Art. This is the final talk of the day. The entire event is free and open to the public.

Date+Time: Saturday February 15, 3:25-4:30pm.
Place: Hilton Midtown NYC

For the full day’s schedule see here, and below.

MAKING TROUBLE: WOMEN, SCIENCE & ART
TFAP@CAA 2025 – Day of Panels
Event Chair: Anonda Bell, Rutgers University

Saturday, February 15 | 9:00am – 4:30pm |  Hilton Midtown (NYC), Concourse G

FULL-DAY SCHEDULE

9:00am – 10:30am
Introductions and Keynote
Connie Tell, The Feminist Art Project, Welcome
Anonda Bell, Rutgers University, Science & Art Introduction
Anne Swartz, Savannah College of Art & Design, Unnatural Sciences
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Suzanne Anker, School of Visual Arts

11:00am – 12:40pm
Panel #1: PEOPLE
Stephanie Dinkins, Stony Brook University
Heather Dewey-Hagborg, Independent Artist
Magdalena Dukiewicz, Independent Artist

1:30pm – 2:30pm
Panel #2: EXPERIENCE
Laura Splan, Independent Artist
Eva Lee, Independent Artist

2:45pm – 3:25pm
Panel #3: PLACE
Michele Oka Donor, Independent Artist
Natalie Waldburger, OCAD University

3:25pm – 4:30pm
CLOSING SPEAKER
Margaret Wertheim, The Institute for Figuring
Crochet Coral Reef: Crafting Against Patriarchy in Science and Art