ASHMOLEAN NOW: BETTINA VON ZWEHL IN CONVERSATION

Part of our Change Makers season of events

The onsite event will take place in the Headley Lecture Theatre

The online event is via Zoom. Details below

Booking is essential


With Bettina von Zwehl, artist, and Katy Barron, Director of Photo Oxford

During this in-conversation event, contemporary artist Bettina von Zwehl will discuss her photographic work and objects in the forthcoming Ashmolean NOW exhibition, The Flood.

The exhibition explores the artist's response to the Ashmolean founding collection based on her residency at the Museum in 2022/23.

The Flood reveals the artist's use of the museum as an artistic medium, her complex relationship with photography as a language and material and the Wunderkammer phenomenon in the context of ecological imbalance and environmental collapse.

Bettina von Zwehl in Gallery 8 setting up her Ashmolean Now exhibition, The Flood, looking at the Fungi Island display with the Thing Series photos behind

Artist Bettina von Zwehl at the installation of her exhibition in Gallery 8. Photo Ellie Atkins / Ashmolean Museum

Von Zwehl will delve into the thought processes and techniques behind her work and reflect on her unique photographic installations that move between portraiture, silhouetted fragments, still-life, monumental and miniature elements.

The conversation will be chaired by Photo Oxford's director, Katy Barron. After the discussion there will be time for questions from the audience.

Giant tea bag installation with blue splash by artist Bettina von Zwehl

Sea of Troubles series, 'Camellia sinensis var. assamica V', Bettina von Zwehl, 2024 © Bettina von Zwehl

Thing Two, beautiful archival print in pink and black by Bettina von Zwehl, our next Ashmolean Now artist

Thing Two, Bettina von Zwehl, 2023, archival pigment print © Bettina von Zwehl

Artist Bettina Von Zwehl's art print showing a silhouette head shaped like a beetle, called The Symptoms #38

The Symptoms #38, Bettina Von Zwehl, 2021 © Bettina von Zwehl


BOOKING

Tickets are £8 each, for both the in-person and online talk.  

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If you have any questions, please email us at publicprogrammes@ashmus.ox.ac.uk