Grounded in a research-based practice and extended fieldwork in remote locations, Ursula Biemann (b. 1955, Switzerland) creates video essays and texts that investigate environmental interconnections across local and planetary contexts focusing especially on water and forest ecologies and extractivist practices. Since 2018, Biemann is involved in co-creating an indigenous university in the Colombian Amazon for which she developed the online platform Devenir Universidad. Her works are regularly exhibited in museums and biennials worldwide and she received comprehensive solo exhibitions at the MAMAC, Nice, France (2021), Broad Art Museum, Lansing, Unites States (2019), and Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin (2013). She received an honorary doctor by the Swedish University of Umeå and the Prix Meret Oppenheim in 2009.
