Founding NAARCA Member, Art Hub Copenhagen, will present the postdoctoral exhibition Dust & Flow – Mud in the Earth System by Rikke Luther, from 2 May – 16 August 2025 at Room Room.
Taking its point of departure in the film work Dust & Flow: Muds, Movement, Time, Scale, the exhibition brings together recent scientific research on mud, environmental DNA and the concept of ‘deep time’, offering an alternative language for articulating the radical transformations taking place within our Earth system.
Rikke Luther: Dust & Flow – Mud in the Earth System
Opening Friday 2 May 2025
16:00–19:00
Room Room
Thoravej 29
2400 Copenhagen NV
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The exhibition has been realised with support from the Novo Nordisk Foundation, the Danish Arts Foundation and Baltic Art Center. Dust & Flow: Muds, Movement, Time, Scale has been commissioned by NAARCA, with production and research hosted by ROCS.
ABOUT RIKKE LUTHER
Artist and PhD Rikke Luther (b. 1970) graduated from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 1998. In her current practice, she investigates the movements in the ‘Earth System’ brought about by human-driven climate, environmental and biodiversity crises. Her work engages with themes relating to emerging landscapes, language, politics, economics, law, biology and geology, expressed through drawn mappings, photography and film.
Luther’s work has been presented at biennales and triennales including Venice, Singapore, Echigo-Tsumari, Auckland, Gothenburg and São Paulo; in museums and institutions such as HKW, the Smart Museum, Kunsthaus Bregenz, The New Museum and Museo Tamayo; in exhibitions including Beyond Green: Towards a Sustainable Art, 48C Public.Art.Ecology and Weather Report: Art & Climate Change; as well as at film festivals including CPH:DOX and the Perth International Film Festival.
MORE ABOUT RIKKE LUTHER’S POSTDOCTORAL PROJECT
Ocean-Lands: Mud in the Earth System explores both the social and bio-communicative effects of shifting sea and land mudscapes, as part of a broader attempt to build a new ethical and aesthetic public language capable of communicating the crisis facing our Earth system.
Luther’s postdoctoral research is academically anchored at Queen Margrethe’s and Vigdís Finnbogadóttir’s Interdisciplinary Research Centre on Ocean, Climate, and Society (ROCS), based at the Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, Globe Institute. The project is funded by the Novo Nordisk Foundation and ROCS.
In collaboration with AHC, she is also working on a forthcoming publication featuring contributions from Esther Leslie, Karina Krarup Sand and Katherine Richardson.