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