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	<title>Alexandra Baumgartner</title>
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		<title>landing plain</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Aug 2025 12:23:08 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Alexandra Baumgartner</dc:creator>

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		<title>Information Exhibitions</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2025 10:21:45 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Alexandra Baumgartner</dc:creator>

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	CONTACT
Mail&#38;nbsp;✉️
Biel/Bienne 
(CH)
	Hi! I am Alexandra. I use
photography as a tool within my research-led practice, converging documentary
approaches and artistic interpretations. &#38;nbsp;In my most recent projects, I delve into the intricate entanglements of vegetal and human life. Examining relationships between humans, plants and landscapes, I navigate the emotional and political realms of biodiversity loss, resource management, agriculture, food, and knowledge production. I develop long-term projects that evolve over time and adapt to different formats and modes of presentation. In recent years I have co-created transdisciplinary spaces for participative experiences and site-specific interventions with a range of artists, practitioners and experts across the fields of art and agriculture with the aim of tasting, listening, learning and sharing together.


	
	︎︎︎ Co-founder of Institut Plapamco - Plants, People and More Cohabitation, association for artistic projects in political ecology.︎︎︎founder of SEED CARRIERS, a podcast on cultivated biodiversity

︎︎︎ Member of near. Swiss association for contemporary photography.



	
	SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Groupshow: TBA, KunstHausWien, 10. April 2026 - 17. February 2027. 
Vienna, Austria.

Landwirtschaft isst Kunst, w/Seraina Grupp, Tage der Agrarökologie, Farngut, 18. October 2025. 
Grossaffoltern, Switzerland.
Groupshow: It Was All Fields Once, SEED CARRIERS, curated by NEWROPE/ETHZ, TRACK, 3. - 12. July, 2025.
Brussels, Belgium.

Le goût du futur, w/ Isabelle Weber, Cabane B, 3. - 12. July 2025.
Bern, Switerland.
Groupshow: Ein Garten ist ein Garten ist ein Garten,&#38;nbsp;Nidwaldner Museum Winkelriedhaus, 28. June - 5. October 2025.
Stans, Switzerland.
Spill the beans! + How lika a leaf I am, foodculture days biennial, June 2025.
Vevey, Switzerland.
How like a leaf I am, w/ guests, Photoforum, September - November 2024. Biel/Bienne, Switzerland.
Le champ de blé planétaire (pilote), foodculture days, 2022-23. Vevey, Switzerland.


	
	Groupshow: Mostra di piante, di storie, di mostre, Villafredda, 2023. 
Tarcento, Italy.
How like a leaf I am, Aterraterra LAB, 2023. Palermo, Italy.
Groupshow:&#38;nbsp;Biennale für aktuelle Fotografie 2022. Heidelberg, Mannheim, Ludwigshafen, Germany.
How like a leaf I am, Club 44, 2021. La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland.
Groupshow: Alt +1000 Festival de Photographie, 2021. Prairie Chaubert, Switzerland.

Groupshow:&#38;nbsp;Prix Photoforum 2020. Biel/Bienne, Switzerland.
Groupshow: Verzasca Foto Festival 2020.Sonogno, Switzerland.

Lumix Festival For Young Visual Journalism 2020, Hannover «New Perspectives on Documentary Practices», curated by Iris Sikking (canceled)

Plat(t)from 2020, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland.
	
	


	
	INTERVENTIONS + TALKSGlobal Conservation @ “AGAINST NEUTRALITY! - on decolonizing Swiss ecologies and economies” mini-Festival, w/Antsa Arimalala, curation of a series of talks with Joseph K. Kausau Wa Mambwe, Miora Rabeony and Eva Keller in the context of the reserach on “tany fivelomana”. In collaboration with Rohit Jain, and the Public Anthro Lab, with Mia Manaila, Mara Businger and Rami Msallam. Enabled by the University of Bern, HSLU, Kunsthalle Bern and Grand Palais Bern.

Du champ à la culture: Savoirs situés, diversité cultivée,&#38;nbsp;Dialog with seed expert Adèle Pautrat (Seeds4All) and farmer Gérald Huber (Bio Vaud/GIREB). foodculture days, Vevey, June 2025.


	
	Petites graines à haut risque : Les OGM 2.0 face à la souveraineté alimentaire, Dialog with climatologist and former National Council for the green Party Valentine Python. foodculture days, Vevey, June 2025.
Experiencing the Planthroposcene, Eventseries (workshops and talks) with Photoforum Pasquart and guests Aterraterra and Botanischer Garten Bern. Photoforum Pasquart, Biel/Bienne, Fall 2024.
Sowing the future: rights and access to seeds, interdisciplinary dialogue with guest speakers Dr. Fulya Batur, Dr. Christophe Golay, and Jean-Marc Louvin moderated by Alexandra Baumgartner. foodculture days, Vevey, June 2023.
bread eaters: chapter 1, dialogue and pic nic with wheat breeder Nicole Bischofberger (gzpk) on the experimental wheat field of Alexandra Baumgartner. In&#38;nbsp; collaboration with keinraum artspace, Lucerne, June 2021.
	

	


	EDUCATION
MA Social Anthropology and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Bern, from Fall 2022.


BA Camera Arts, Photography in the context of art, design, media, and society, Lucerne School of Art and Design, 2019.
Exchange Semester, BA Photography, Royal Academy of Art in the Hague, 2018.

BA Middle Eastern Studies and History, University of Zurich, 2017.
	 
	AWARDS + RESIDENCIES
Werkbeitrag, 2025 w/ Isabelle Weber︎︎︎ Stadt Luzern

ON FORESTS Residency, 2024 - 2025︎︎︎ Istituto Svizzero Roma + Wyss Academy For Nature
Atelier Flex, 2024︎︎︎ Direktion für Bildung und Kultur, Kanton Zug

Art Residency in Cairo, 2023︎︎︎ Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia


Art Residency in Cairo, Aug. 2021 - Feb. 2022
︎︎︎SKK Art Residency (City of Lucerne)

Förderbeitrag 2021︎︎︎ Direktion für Bildung und Kultur, Kanton ZugPromotion of Aspiring Photographers, 2020 ︎︎︎  Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetiarunner-up UNSEEN dummy-award 2019︎︎︎ UNSEEN Amsterdam


	





	COLLECTIONS
City of Biel, Kanton Zug

CommissionsNZZ, Die Zeit, Neue Luzerner Zeitung, 041 Kulturmagazin
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		<title>Le goût du futur</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Aug 2025 13:20:17 +0000</pubDate>

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Le goût du futur
2023 - ong.
	





























Le goût du futur is an ongoing
artistic research project conceived by Alexandra Baumgartner and Isabelle Weber
as a video installation accompanied by photographic and sculptural elements. The project explores the nature of
time through an archaeological artifact from the Neolithic period – the Bread
of Twann – and questions the conventional understanding of foodstuffs as
inanimate goods. It invites reflection on the historically grown entanglements
between humans, cultivated plants, nourishment, and environment, as well as on
the myths that take root within the apparent facts they yield. The bread serves
as a speculative tool for time travel, situating human actors in new relations
to geological and more-than-human temporal horizons.



In
Baumgartner and Weber’s practice, fragments from diverse sources of knowledge
are brought into relation and fabulated upon. Layered across and against one
another, images drawn from the archaeological storage facility in Bern, from
bread researcher Max Währen’s personal archives and work diaries, and from
staged settings trace both the emergence and the erosion of knowledge.


	Filed under: artistic research, collaboration, video, installation
	
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︎︎︎ Le goût du futur is part of the </description>
		
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		<title>spill the beans!</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Aug 2025 12:04:00 +0000</pubDate>

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spill the beans!
2025 - ong.
	










This lecture-performance
grows out of Alexandra Baumgartner’s long-term project How like a leaf I am, shifting focus to a curated collection
of legumes – fava, lupin, peas, lentils, lablab, and more. Legumes, members of
the Fabaceae family, are known for producing pods – single-chambered capsules
that contain their seeds. In many cases, it is the seeds – often simply
referred to as beans, rather than the whole fruit – that we eat. Celebrated for
their ability to fix nitrogen and support climate-resilient farming, legumes
are key to the future of food, yet remain underappreciated in Switzerland.
Anticipating a plant-protein revolution, Baumgartner stages an encounter with
these remarkable plants. In an intimate gathering, the collection comes alive
in a lecture-performance, where seeds become storytellers – evoking ancestral
knowledge, colonial entanglements, scientific perspectives, and emergent
farming practices.&#38;nbsp;



The first phase of research for this ongoing project was carried out in
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		<title>tany fivelomana</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2025 09:18:40 +0000</pubDate>

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tany fivelomana
2025
	










tany fivelomana – between land and forest is an on-going work developed in collaboration with Malagasy artist Antsa Arimalala. The multichannel audiovisual installation invites viewers into a space formed by imaginaries and testimonies collected in Madagascar and Switzerland, two places linked through global biodiversity conservation. By layering perspectives, this work in progress explores how interventions on the land give rise to fragmented realities. 
Hearing and not hearing voices, seeing and not seeing forest—a site takes shape through the tensions between care and control, presence and erasure. Approaching ‘land’ as tany fivelomana—‘land for life’—in the sense of sustaining continuity and growth, the ‘forest’ expands.&#38;nbsp;&#38;nbsp;
Questioning how Western nature paradigms contribute to and are held accountable in times of ecological upheaval the work in progress seeks to further analyse the imaginaries and images that are produced by nature conservation.

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Images: Istituto Svizzero, Antsa Arimalala, Daria Vuistiner.︎︎︎ The work was developed during the ON FOREST (2024 - 2025) residency programme of Istituto Svizzero and Wyss Academy For Nature. First results were presented in a public event on the 28th of March at Istituto Svizzero in Rome. 
︎︎︎&#38;nbsp;tany fivelomana – between land and forest is co-created with </description>
		
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		<title>SEED CARRIERS E1</title>
				
		<link>https://a-baumgartner.com/SEED-CARRIERS-E1</link>

		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Sep 2023 17:51:25 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Alexandra Baumgartner</dc:creator>

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SEED CARRIERS E1
2024
	Why are we losing seed diversity around the world? And how can we secure the fundamental rights to seeds in Europe?
 SEED CARRIERS is an initiative by the artist-run association Institut Plapamco and the network Let’s Liberate Seed Diversity!. Bridging the worlds of art, activism, and science, this audio-documentary series explores the possibilities of storytelling about seeds from a European perspective. In doing so, SEED CARRIERS addresses the accelerating decline of seed and agricultural diversity, which constitutes the foundation of all life. 
Tackling the lack of societal dialogue around seed politics, SEED CARRIERS aims to create a vibrant body of knowledge reflecting endeavors to protect, provision, and develop seed and crop diversity.
Episode 1 "Seeds As Time Capsules" begins with a basic description of seeds. What are these fascinating living entities we call “seeds” capable of, and how are they kept? This episode features perspectives from genbank scientist Boulos Chalhoub at the Swiss center for agricultural research Agroscope, small-scale farmer and seed keeper József Hegyesi (Magház), and seed policy expert Katherine Dolan (Arche Noah).
Critically examining conservation strategies for seeds, their intertwined domestication histories, ancestral and newly established practices of commoning, and the human-plant relationships seed keepers engage with, SEED CARRIERS provides rich insights into the world of seeds, spanning both the so-called formal and informal sectors.Join us on our three-part venture into the world of seeds. Listen to SEED CARRIERS Episode 1 “Seeds As Time Capsules” on Spotify,&#38;nbsp;Apple Podcast and Soundcloud.
SEED CARRIERS has been developed by Alexandra Baumgartner, Anna Froelicher, Kim Schelbert and Matthias Lorimer of the European Coordination Let’s Liberate Diversity. 



	Filed under:collaboration, audio
	
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		<title>Plant People Unite!</title>
				
		<link>https://a-baumgartner.com/Plant-People-Unite</link>

		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jul 2024 14:38:08 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Alexandra Baumgartner</dc:creator>

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Plant People Unite!
2024
	










Plant People Unite! has emerged as an experiment, and a wish to create a collection of thoughts and suggestions on how to make bonds with plants, reflecting on our own practice. As a group of artists moved and inspired by the plant world, we aim to engage in a broader dialogue about what tuning into "plantiness" means to others and how we can all become a bit more planty in our daily lives.

Through an open call participants were invited to share a contribution to the fanzine project which was presented during the exhibition&#38;nbsp;How like a leaf I am at Photoforum Pasquart in Biel (Switzerland) from 14.9 - 24.11.2024. Visitors to the exhibition were encouraged to compile the fanzine on the spot from the contributions on display.

With the fanzine Plant People Unite! We aim to infuse the exhibition space with the beautiful communal energy surrounding seed-keeping activities and other aspects we associate with human-plant encounters, such as gardening, foraging, observing, cooking, eating, and so on... &#38;nbsp;
 
The fanzine project Plant People Unite! Has been developed by Alexandra Baumgartner and Kim Lang under the umbrella of Institut Plapamco.

	
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		<title>bread eaters</title>
				
		<link>https://a-baumgartner.com/bread-eaters</link>

		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jun 2022 14:21:09 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Alexandra Baumgartner</dc:creator>

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	bread eaters

2020 – ong.
	










Transcending geographical, cultural, and temporal boundaries, bread connects us to a multitude of past and future generations. The different tastes, shapes, food habits and values associated with the many types of bread being eaten around the world, are defined by its main ingredient: wheat. 


We, the bread eaters, have coevolved with this crop. We have shaped its trajectory, as much as it has influenced our lives. From largely inedible grass, wheat evolved to sustain the rise whole civilisations. Its messy domestication history is still being debated by taxonomists. Today, wheat is a global commodity and one of the most important subsistence foods. Challenging the perception of crop plants as inanimate resource1, the work cycle&#38;nbsp;bread eaters explores wheat in ‘its constant process of becoming’ (Head et al. 2012). Choosing from distinct moments of encounter between the crop plant and humans, the fluid research project suggests a subjective telling of the history of bread/wheat, shifting between observations on different scales and traveling through time and space.








The work cycle is divided into 4 chapters. While each chapter provides a different viewpoint on the subject, some elements loop back to previous chapters, or pop up in following episodes of the journey that bread eaters presents.

	
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artistic research
	
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	︎︎︎ 1&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; The artistic research project evolves around what Jessica Barnes defines as the social worlds of wheat, the ‘the multiple ways in which the plant becomes entangled with human lives, in ways that are both derivative and constitutive’.
	
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		<title>Le champ de blé planétaire</title>
				
		<link>https://a-baumgartner.com/Le-champ-de-ble-planetaire</link>

		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2022 10:25:40 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Alexandra Baumgartner</dc:creator>

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Le champ de blé planétaire
The planetary wheat field
2023 – 2024
	





















Getting physically and metaphorically “in touch” with wheat Le champ de blé planétaire&#38;nbsp;establishes a space to grow, learn and exchange with and about the most widely consumed grain. &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; 
Situated in a public park named La Faraz, the collaborative project integrates an assemblage of peculiar interests; school children, dog walkers, curious neighbors, gardeners, wheat experts and artists alike will share the space with the wheat plants during nine months. 
The surrounding community of La Faraz in the city of La Tour-de-Peilz is invited to partake in various activities on the 100 m2 wheat field such as plowing, sowing, harvesting, and bread-making. The project consists of a combination of manual and educational activities, alongside an artistic intervention and a panel discussion involving wheat farmers and social scientists.

Le champ de blé planétaire builds on the sensorial and aesthetic experience of growing wheat, fostering a spirit of cross-pollination and opening the possibility of a different way of doing things. 



The project's pilot phase unfolded between Fall 2022 and Summer 2023. It involved early-stage manual work in the field and a sequence of workshops on the soil microbiome, specifically crafted for three primary school student classes.


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	︎︎︎ Le champ de blé planétaire (pilot) is a collaboration of Alexandra Baumgartner with the transdisciplinary platform  foodculture days  and the primary schools of La Tour-de-Peilz. The project is part of the platform’s perennial activities on the territory. Le champ de blé planétaire (pilot) is located at La Faraz, 1814 La Tour-de-Peilz, Switzerland.


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		<title>Der Garten</title>
				
		<link>https://a-baumgartner.com/Der-Garten-1</link>

		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jun 2022 13:17:31 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Alexandra Baumgartner</dc:creator>

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	Der Garten
2020–2022
	








We call it the garden of the Heidelberg Kunstverein. The only remnant, however, that suggests a horticultural intervention are the heads of the former sprinkler system protruding from the dense, partly withered undergrowth. Over the years, a chance community of plants has come together in the backyard of the Heidelberg Kunstverein - unnoticed and perhaps even unwanted? 













In Der Garten Alexandra Baumgartner and her collaborators, biologist Andromeda v. Prondzinski, landscape architect Yanik Kloter and art historian Theresa Deichert, set out to expand the notion of tending to a garden. Every crack, groove, and joint, every overgrown border, and even the sealed paving stone terrace is proclaimed a garden. 
In the site-specific work Der Garten at Heidelberger Kunstverein, Baumgartner looked at possible ways of interaction that challenge common practices of tending gardens. Understanding the garden as a method, a tool and a mirror the project seeks to advance new perspectives on ‘natural’ surroundings in urban spaces.




Going beyond the division into ‘native’ and ‘alien’, a way of looking at things is proposed that accepts a disruption of the planetary ecosystem and biogeographical shift of flora and fauna as a given. Displays of transitions, seams, imperfections, cracks, gaps or fissures quickly become the main object of study. Inspired by the flourishing mini-biotopes in pavement joints, Baumgartner and Kloter explored the different qualities of these interstitial spaces. Which surfaces favour the settlement of life? The duo‘s intervention aims at expanding the existing habitat joint in the garden of the HDKV, and in general the biodiversity of non-human organisms in urban space. 
For this purpose, individual interlocking stones are replaced with precisely fitting objects of different materiality. The result is a multitude of self-contained micro-landscapes that nevertheless relate to each other through the existing network of joints.




The process-based project Der Garten was commissioned by the Heidelberger Kunstverein in collaboration with Die Biennale für Aktuelle Fotografie, public talks and workshops were held in Heidelberg during the summer 2021. Results of the artistic research are the site-specific intervention, the audio piece Der Garten and an accompanying publication.
 

	
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HDKV · Der Garten [Heidelberger Kunstverein]
The audio piece Der Garten (GE/EN) accompanies the visitor through the garden on site, where listeners can encounter the protagonists. While encouraging own observations, hints are provided on how to break-open paved areas and expanded them with a few actions.
 
 
	
	
	
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Audio piece Der Garten,&#38;nbsp; Heidelberger Kunstverein, Soundcloud, 2022.Publication Der Garten, with texts by Andromeda v. Prondzinski, Theresa Deichert and Alexandra Baumgartner.


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Publication&#38;nbsp;Der Garten. Images:&#38;nbsp;Johannes Immel.
	
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