Pedro Wirz

Environmental Hangover

Installation view, Pedro Wirz, Environmental Hangover, Kunsthalle Basel, 2022. Photo: Philipp Hänger / Kunsthalle Basel

Installation view, Pedro Wirz, Environmental Hangover, Kunsthalle Basel, 2022, view on Exúvia, 2022 (left), and Coro de Princesa (Sumaúma), 2022 (right). Photo: Philipp Hänger / Kunsthalle Basel

Installation view, Pedro Wirz, Environmental Hangover, Kunsthalle Basel, 2022, view on Our cities were built to be destroyed, 2016–2022 (front) and the series Sour Ground, 2022 (back). Photo: Philipp Hänger / Kunsthalle Basel

 

 

Installation view, Pedro Wirz, Environmental Hangover, Kunsthalle Basel, 2022, view on Untitled (Nest), 2022 (left), Bela Peça, 2022 (right), Corpo Seco, 2022 (ceiling). Photo: Philipp Hänger / Kunsthalle Basel

Installation view, Pedro Wirz, Environmental Hangover, Kunsthalle Basel, 2022, view on Bicho Abstrato (Tamanduá), 2022 (left), und Bicho Abstrato (Onça), 2022 (right). Photo: Philipp Hänger / Kunsthalle Basel

Installation view, Pedro Wirz, Environmental Hangover, Kunsthalle Basel, 2022, view on Chapéu Telúrico, 2022. Photo: Philipp Hänger / Kunsthalle Basel

Exhibition poster for Environmental Hangover by Pedro Wirz, Kunsthalle Basel, 2022. Design: Tola Łysakowska

Exhibition text (PDF)
Press images (ZIP)

For his largest exhibition to date, Pedro Wirz (*1981) imagines an immersive installation, filled with sculptures drawn equally from organic matter and consumer culture. Together, they translate the Brazilian Swiss artist’s interest in cultural history, science, craft, and folklore into a commentary on our current environmental crisis that is as fantastical as it is sobering.

Press clippings:
Samuel Leuenberger in conversation with Pedro Wirz, STUDIO Magazine (04/2022)
Pedro Wirz and Arto Lindsay, Montez Press Radio (04/2022)
Ausstellungs-Tipp: “Environmental Hangover: Pedro Wirz”, 3sat (04/2022)
Kunst und Amazonas – Viel Schönheit vor dem Untergang, Tages Anzeiger (03/2022)
Die schwarze Kugel: Sieht unsere Zukunft so aus? Pedro Wirz in der Kunsthalle Basel, Neue Zürcher Zeitung (02/2022)
Pedro Wirz legt den Finger in die Wunde der Welt, Basler Zeitung (01/2022)
Eine Umarmung für Bolsonaro, bz Basel (01/2022)
Pedro Wirz in der Kunsthalle Basel: Die Natur hat Katerstimmung, SWR2 (01/2022)
Für mehr Nachhaltigkeit: Installationen von Pedro Wirz in der Kunsthalle Basel, SWR (01/2022)
Achtung Erdarbeiten!, Art – Das Kunstmagazin (01/2021)
Fehlt der Welt ein Häutungshormon?, ProgrammZeitung (02/2022)
Künstler Pedro Wirz zeigt «Umwelt-Katzenjammer», Telebasel (01/2022)
Natur unter dem Kapitalismus, Badische Zeitung (02/2022)
Planetarische Katerstimmung in der Kunsthalle, Radio X (01/2022)
What ArtReview Editors Are Looking Forward to in January 2022, ArtReview (01/2022)