By supporting projects in frontier areas and at the interfaces of traditional disciplines, the Schering Stiftung wants to pave the way for new ideas and thoughts by bringing together artists and scientists. To this end, we have organized a lecture program in conjunction with the “Cloud Core Scanner” project and invite you to use the discussion as a background for discussions with scientists working in aerosol (cloud) research.

Agnes Meyer-Brandis studied mineralogy in Aachen and sculpture in Maastricht and Düsseldorf. The young Cologne-based artist who works at the interface of art and science has shown her work at international exhibitions and festivals and has received numerous fellowships and awards.

During the exhibition, the Sophiensaele in Berlin-Mitte present Agnes Meyer-Brandis’ “MAKING CLOUDS, or ON THE ABSENCE OF WEIGHT – A Contemporary Traveling Movie Show” on February 5 and 6, 2010. A combination of film, performance and lecture, the traveling movie show unites contemporary art with quite surreal forms of science such as nanotechnology, fluid dynamics research or meteorology. The central metaphor for the filmed and real processes is the theory of cloud formation. The audience experiences the reality in the movie and the trick in reality.

Curator: Carsten Seiffarth (Berlin)