Pamela Rosenkranz (*1979) rose to prominence with a conceptual practice that encompasses sculpture, video, installation and painting. Her work questions the subjective element in the apprehension of an artwork, shifting the viewer’s focus toward the material, biochemical and neurological determinants of human behavior. Dubious of a worldview that places human beings at the center of the natural and material universe, the Zurich-based artist has also collaborated with thinkers from the broad philosophical movement known as speculative realism.
Shifting Waters
Group Exhibition
Fondazione ERES, Venice
Through November 22, 2026
As a contribution to the Biennale Arte 2026, the ERES Foundation is presenting the group exhibition Shifting Waters. Based on seven internationally established artistic positions, it will highlight aspects of the changing relationship between humans and water cycles, which are the basis of all life.
No other city in the world is as defined by water as Venice. Everything seems to converge in the lagoon: heaven and earth, illusion and reality, man and sea. For centuries, its inhabitants have sought ways to transform the hostile environment into inviting splendor with ingenious technical inventions and to triumph over the forces of nature. Exposed to tides and storm surges and built on unstable alluvial soil, Venice is a prime example of the need to adapt to water. In view of globally changing water cycles with increasing flash floods, high water levels and droughts, this aspect makes the lagoon city the vanguard of a changing relationship between the hydrosphere and the anthroposphere.
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