The exhibition   T H E   V A L U E   O F   I C E  was presented in a walk-in refrigerated container at temperatures below zero degrees.The focus was on glaciers in times of global warming. Participating artists: Adam Sébire, Jaanika Peerna and Ronald Anzenberger.

According to the NASA the Antarctica is losing 150 billion tons of ice every year. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) assume that the arctic polar ice will have completely disappeared in the summer of 2040.

As a result, ice is becoming an increasingly valuable resource in nature in the future.​ From 23th – 24th November 2024, the exhibition 'The Value of Ice' is showing three artistic positions which dealing with glacerl ice.

 

Participating artists: Adam Sébire, Jaanika Peerna and Ronald Anzenberger

 


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Instead of polishing a car, in his film Iceberg Care (2024) Adam Sébire takes care of an iceberg in Norway. The freshly fallen snow is meticulously swept away with a broom and the shimmering blue ice is made to shine with a spray bottle and cloth.

  

 
 
 


Ronald Anzenberger shows a diamond made from glacial ice. In his project Ice Diamonds(2024), he produced countles diamonds with smooth surfaces and sharp edges by using rugged chunks of glacial ice, on the so-called Diamond Beach on Iceland .

  

 
 
 


In her performances Glacier Elegy (2017-2024), Jaanika Peerna confronts exhibition visitors with the question: What would you do with the last piece of ice on earth? At the same time, she shows us in an impressive way what she would make of it.

  

 
 
 


Exhibition in a walk-in refrigerated container     
Group exhibition | 23th – 24th November 2024     
MOORBURG ART E.V.| Hamburg, GER     

 

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