8-22 November Wednesday-Saturday 13:00-18:00
Programme
Ground invites you to slow down and listen to the soil beneath your feet, the technologies we depend on, and the more-than-human rhythms that sustain us. Spread across the garden and indoor spaces of Het Hof van Cartesius, the exhibition unfolds as a living ecosystem where art, technology and ecology intertwine.
The journey begins in Sunjoo Lee’s Electric Garden, where bacteria, plants, insects and soil collaborate to generate electricity that powers a digital artwork. Among handmade clay vessels shaped to welcome new forms of life, natural and digital systems pulse together, revealing energy as something shared rather than consumed.
Nearby, Rein van der Woerd’s Mobile Solar Server keeps the exhibition alive online, using a single repurposed Android phone powered by sunlight. Built from donated materials, it reminds us that technological infrastructures (like all living systems) depend on care, limitation and light.
Inside, Stefanie Wuschitz and Patrícia Reis present the results of their workshop making Clay PCBs, circuit boards made of natural clay and ethically sourced components. Their work slows down the act of making, embracing touch, failure and repair as gestures of feminist resistance against extractive forms of technology.
From there, Benjamin Gaulon and Vincent Valéry’s Electro Agriculture reaches upwards. A sculptural antenna built from discarded materials that channels atmospheric electricity into the soil. Between earth and sky, the piece imagines how digital infrastructures might one day collaborate with living organisms.
As you move through the garden, Mink Bol’s Luistervogel: Ausculta invites you to tune in to the voices of the birds inhabiting the Hof. Their interactive installation transforms listening into an act of care, reconnecting us with the subtle presence of our surroundings.
Archival materials, soil samples and portraits of the Hof’s caretakers anchor these works in the place they emerge from, a living network of human and non-human collaboration.
In the Ground Expo, art becomes an act of attunement. Each work invites you to listen differently to systems, species, and signals, and to rediscover what it means to share the ground we stand on.
Come experience it yourself from 8 to 22 november!
