Tomas Saraceno

Tomas Saraceno participates in the exhibition WANÅS 2009: Footprints. Since the mid-2000s he works with Air-Port-City, a visionary project suggesting we lift our dwellings a few kilometers up in the sky in order to stop the exploitation of our planet’s resources. Climate change often has negative effects on the organisms that live in specific areas; with the environment changing quickly the organisms don’t have time to move to more suitable places. As a response to this problem, Saraceno has developed so called “flying gardens”, that are a part of Air-Port-City. These suspended growing places would be able to move to more suitable locations if or when the climate changes. In the Konsthall Saraceno presents the videoinstallation Cumulus, recorded at the world’s largest salt flat, located 3000 meters above sea level in Bolivia. Saraceno creates a panorama of the site, allowing spectators to experience what it would be like to live among the clouds in an Air-Port-City.

Tomas Saraceno was born in 1973 in San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina. Today he lives and works around the planet (but mostly in Frankfurt, Germany). Saraceno has studied architecture at the University of Buenos Aires; art and architecture at Escuela Superior de Bellas Artes de la Nación Ernesto de la Carcove, Buenos Aires; art and architecture at Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste (Städelschule), Frankfurt, and art at the University Iuav of Venice. He has participated in biennials in Istanbul, Moscow, Sao Paolo, and Sharjah, etc. He has had solo exhibitions at for example Tanya Bonakdar, New York City; Christian Larsen, Stockholm; and Portikus, Frankfurt. In 2009 he is participating in the 53th Venice Biennale and in the group exhibition Life Forms at Bonniers Konsthall in Stockholm, as well as having a solo show at the Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis.