Placed within the context of the NGV’s 19th century international painting collection, Franziska Furter’s room-scaled installation consists of Haku 2023, an intricate sculpture made of thousands of glass beads suspended above a monumental wool rug, and Liquid skies/Gyrwynt 2023, that depicts infrared imagery of hurricanes, creating an atmospheric experience of the natural world.
Furter joins NGV Curator of Contemporary Art Kat Prugger to discuss the ways the recurring theme of weather in her work invites audiences to contemplate the weather as an essential part of our lives.
About the artist:
Franziska Furter is currently based in Basel and has undertaken residencies in Tokyo, London, Paris, and Cairo and her work is represented in museum collections including MoMA, New York; Contemporary Art Society, Edinburgh; Kunstmuseum, Basel; and Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin. Recent solo exhibitions have been held at Centre d’Art Contemporain in Yverdon; Birgit Lauda Art Foundation, Vienna, and group exhibitions at Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich and Kunsthalle Basel.
Kat Prugger is Curator of Contemporary Art at the National Gallery of Victoria.