Panama Pavilion, Biennale Architettura 2023

Deep.Forest

part of: 'Living Structures' exhibition, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2024

ROOM ONE:
SEPARATION FOR CONTROL 

Stories From Beneath the Water

ROOM TWO:
THE MAGICAL PATHWAY 

ROOM THREE:
SEPARATION FOR PROTECTION 

Membranes

part of: 'GEO—DESIGN: COVID-19. Travelling without moving.' online exhibition, 2020

Immersive installation by ecoLogic Studio

Countryside, The Future

S.R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, 2020

Exhibition by AMO / Rem Koolhaas / Samir Bantal

DIVISIONS AS STRUCTURES OF CONTROL

Across all scales, Membranes are separating, while simultaneously, connecting entities.

TRANSFORMING STRUCTURES IN GLOBAL LANDSCAPES

Audiovisual research essay

Jasper Zehetgruber (*1996 Graz, Austria) is a media artist, researcher and exhibition designer.

His work is dedicated to the human need for security, definition and control in contrast to the ideal of individual freedom and the resulting transformations in environment and society. After completing his BA in Public Private at Design Academy Eindhoven (2019) with a semester abroad at PolyU Hong Kong (2017), he was part of the AMO think tank under the direction of Rem Koolhaas at the architecture firm OMA in Rotterdam, developing the exhibition 'Countryside, The Future' (2020) at the S.R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City. The 7-year research project explored radical changes in the rural, remote, and wild territories collectively identified as "countryside," or the 98% of the Earth’s surface not occupied by cities. The exhibition proved to be a significant influence on Zehetgruber's subsequent work, which largely focussed on the comparison of civilisational and natural systems across scales.

His works have been shown at the Dutch Design Week (2019) and the Paris Design Week (2020) as well as exhibitions such as 'Living Apart Together' (RAUM, Utrecht, 2020-21), 'GEO-DESIGN COVID-19: Travelling without moving' (online, 2020), 'Fitting In' (z33, Hasselt, 2022) and 'Between Normals' (Slash Gallery @ WORM, Rotterdam, 2023). From 2020 to 2022, Zehetgruber studied in the MA Biodesign programme at Central Saint Martins in London with a scholarship of the IKEA Foundation Switzerland. As part of his studies, he researched sense-making processes in collective and artificial intelligence. His thesis project earned him a place among the finalists for the Bio Art and Design (BAD) Award at MU Hybrid Art House (Eindhoven, 2022) and subsequently informed the design of his most recent project, the immersive installation 'Deep.Forest' by ecoLogic Studio for the exhibition 'Living Structures' (Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, 2024).

In 2023, Zehetgruber was appointed Creative Director of the first national pavilion of Panama at the Biennale Architettura di Venezia.

CV

DECONSTRUCTING NATURE

COPERNICUS SATELLITE:
TOPOGRAPHY

SENTINEL SATELLITE:
VEGETATION DENSITY