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Installation view of the exhibition

Installation view of the exhibition "The flux under your skin" by Susanne Winterling at focusTerra - ETH Zürich
Photo: Alle Rechte bei ETH Zürich und Andreas Eggenberger, Fotograf

Susanne M. Winterling, A threshold-game of proximity, cluster and heat (2022). Unity-Still, CGI rendering. Produced in collaboration with planetary sensing, TBA21-Academy, Direktoratet for internasjonalisering og kvalitetsutvikling i høgare utdanning (Diku). Commissioned by Kunsthall Trondheim and Schering Stiftung, Berlin. Courtesy the artist and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

Susanne M. Winterling, A threshold-game of proximity, cluster and heat (2022). Unity-Still, CGI rendering. Produced in collaboration with planetary sensing, TBA21-Academy, Direktoratet for internasjonalisering og kvalitetsutvikling i høgare utdanning (Diku). Commissioned by Kunsthall Trondheim and Schering Stiftung, Berlin. Courtesy the artist and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

Installation view of the exhibition

Installation view of the exhibition "The flux under your skin" by Susanne Winterling at focusTerra - ETH Zürich
Photo: Alle Rechte bei ETH Zürich und Andreas Eggenberger, Fotograf

Installation view of the exhibition

Installation view of the exhibition "The flux under your skin" by Susanne Winterling at focusTerra - ETH Zürich
Photo: Alle Rechte bei ETH Zürich und Andreas Eggenberger, Fotograf

Installation view of the exhibition

Installation view of the exhibition "The flux under your skin" by Susanne Winterling at focusTerra - ETH Zürich
Photo: Alle Rechte bei ETH Zürich und Andreas Eggenberger, Fotograf

Susanne Winterling

The flux under your skin

Susanne Winterling

The flux under your skin

Duration:

September 07 – November 29, 2023

Exhibition opening:

Thursday, 07. September 2023

Opening hours:

Mon-Fri 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Sat closed
Sun 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.

Venue:

focusTerra
Sonneggstrasse 5, 8092 Zurich


The exhibition “The flux under your skin” by artist Susanne Winterling has been developed in collaboration with Prof. Dr. Simone Schürle-​Finke of the Laboratory for Responsive Biomedical Systems at ETH Zurich. It takes an artistic approach to the question whether bacteria help to fight cancer cells. Researchers habe been investigating for some time whether and how bacteria can be used as drug carriers and targeted in the bloodstream with the help of a magnetic field.

In an environment of 37 degrees, our body temperature, visitors feel the warmth – energy – that nourishes us and all life within us as they walk through a visual installation of dense cancerous tissue. This energy enables the growth of cells and bacteria in our bodies and their exchange with each other. This exchange can be influenced by magnetic fields, which visitors can experience in an interactive simulation. The immersive spatial installation presented in focusTerra invites visitors to merge technology, research and imagination and follow the bacteria on their magnetic flow. Since 2013, Winterling has explored bioluminescent microorganisms in various artistic endeavors, including the striking installation “Planetary Loop of Gravitation” (2018). Building upon her extensive engagement with these life forms, she established the interdisciplinary network called “Planetary sensing: navigations below the surface.” This network brings together experts from fields such as philosophy, marine biology, microbiology, astrophysics, and social sciences, collaborating with residents of Oyster Bay, Jamaica. The collective investigates marine dinoflagellates inhabiting the region. These single-​cell organisms emit light when in motion or upon contact, holding significance not only in Jamaican cultural mythology but also providing valuable insights into marine conditions and pollution levels.

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Susanne M. Winterling: TEMPERATE – 

Exhibition — May 20 – September 19, 2021

A fluorescent bacterium is the protagonist of Susanne M. Winterling’s installation “TEMPERATE.” Visitors meet the glowing bacterium in an exhibition room heated to body temperature.

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Susanne Winterling works across a range of media to explore the sentient economy, cultures and transformations of elements and materialisations. With an emphasis on enhancing our perceptual and critical consciousness, Winterling undertakes affective and material-based research that highlights interaction between materials, elements and species. Susanne Winterling lives in Berlin.

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Simone Schürle is researching in the field of biomedical engineering and Assistant Professor for Responsive Biomedical Systems at ETH Zurich. She graduated in 2009 from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Industrial Engineering and Management with specialization in micro/nanosystems. She then joined the Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETHZ) where she focused on magnetic manipulation techniques for biomedical applications. She was awarded with the ETH medal for her doctoral thesis and with fellowships from the SNSF, DAAD and the Society in Science for her postdoctoral studies at the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she was researching as postdoctoral fellow from 2014-​2017. Besides activities in public outreach work and education, she is serving as Global Future Council for the World Economic Forum. She is also co-​founder of MagnebotiX, a young spin-​off from ETHZ.

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This Project is realized in cooperation with the following partners:

ETH Zürich

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Saturday to Sunday: 11 am - 7 pm
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