A Short Introduction to Interdisciplinary Artist…
It’s difficult to introduce Sonja, because there is no one specific word that can define her profession. Her work does not fit easily into standard categories: it includes art objects, living...
Sonja Bäumen (AT)
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Sonja Bäumen (AT)
Sonja Bäumel is an artist currently living in Amsterdam who explores the boundaries between fashion design, art and science, to create multidisciplinary works. She is fascinated by the human body especially the (in)visible platform around it and by the applications this existing infrastructure can have. Believing in symbiosis, networks, exchange and individuality, her work seeks to consider plants, animals, fungi and even bacteria as equally respected partners in finding solutions to global matters.
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The Expanded Self
Sonja is explaining how she uses her own (microbial) body as subject to generate data and grow new artifacts with. Biotalk at Mediamatic.
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The Expanded Self II by Sonja Bäumel at The Waag…
A cast of Sonja's body in a huge petri dish. The project has been realised for the exhibition 'Gare du Nord' which was initiated by Chiara Ianeselli and developed with Lucas Evers of Waag Society.
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Image: Sonja Bäumen (AT)
Oversized petri dish
Artist : Sonja Baumel Sonja made a print of her upper part of the body in an oversized petri dish and let her usually invisible skin bacteria grow into a visible silhouette. Year : 2010 Source :...
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Image: Sonja Bäumen (AT)
Visible Membrane
The visible membrane I shows one outcome of the experiments Sonja did with textile and bacteria. The object displays the fact that there is a reaction from bacteria to textile surfaces and how this...
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Starting the workshop
The mycological material workshop that took place during the official opening for the Paddestoelen Paradijs exhibition, 2011.
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Image: Sonja Bäumen (AT)
Fomes Fomentarius finished material
The finished material made from the fomes fomentarius fungus. This project is part of the Paddestoelen Paradijs exhibition.