BIOPHILIA

EXHIBITION TO MARK THE 200TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE HUNGARIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES

"What can we learn from trees? A lot. But above all the love of life - biophilia." With these words, Géza Kulcsár, the curator of this transdisciplinary exhibition experiment, links the themes and motifs of the retrospective show by artist Balázs Csizik What can we learn from trees?
This exhibition merges into the collaborative project Biophilia by Csizik and Dániel Barabási - a joint work by Csizik and the scientist Dániel Barabási, who conducts research in the USA into new neuronal approaches to networked intelligence. Kulcsár creates an organic connection between artistic practice and scientific reflection - based on the behavioral patterns of trees, which can teach us what it means to live in a networked, resilient and cooperative way.
In the age of not only artificial but also plant intelligence, in the midst of a field of tension between total urbanization and renaturation accelerated by climate change - both external and internal - the total art event at the Liszt Institute in Stuttgart becomes a highly topical homage to Hungarian science.
The exhibition is accompanied by an introduction to the past and future of the project by Csizik and Barabási, whose backgrounds complement each other and form the foundation of this dialogue. The program is rounded off by a site- and time-specific performance by the music collective DVX NVX, which, under the direction of the curator, explores sonic post-industrial perspectives with a view to urban-planetary space - entirely in keeping with the exhibition theme.
Opening: Géza Kulcsár, curator of the exhibition