Ursula Biemann

Ursula Biemann is an artist, author, and video essayist based in Zurich, Switzerland.

Her artistic practice is strongly research-oriented and involves fieldwork in remote locations where she investigates climate change and the ecologies of oil and water, as in the recent projects “Deep Weather” (2013), “Forest Law” (2014), and “Acoustic Ocean” (2018). She recently published the online monograph on her ecological works “Becoming Earth.”

Biemann had comprehensive solo exhibitions at the MAMAC in Nice, Broad Art Museum in Michigan, BAK Utrecht, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Bildmuseet Umea, Lentos Museum Linz and Helmhaus Zurich, and her video installations are exhibited worldwide in museums and at international art biennials in Liverpool, Sharjah, Shanghai, Sevilla, Taipei, Istanbul, Montreal, Venice, and Sao Paulo.

She is co-founder of the collaborative “World of Matter” project and Devenir Universidad involved in the co-creating of an indigenous University in the Colombian Amazon. Biemann has a BFA from the School of Visual Arts and attended the Whitney Independent Study Program in New York. She received a doctor honoris causa in Humanities by the Swedish University Umea and the Prix Meret Oppenheim, the Swiss Grand Award for Art.