Next month, our galleries will re-open with “Symbionts: Contemporary Artists and the Biosphere,” a major group exhibition that brings together over a dozen international artists and invites us to reexamine our human relationships to the planet’s biosphere through the lens of symbiosis, or “with-living.” The artists in “Symbionts” explore what it means to be interdependent or collaborative by not only “using” living materials, but welcoming them as teachers, partners in creation, and fellow form-makers, even allowing them to transform their works over the course of the exhibition. With experimental practices that blur the boundaries between artist, medium, and collaborator, while also underscoring the intersections of biological, social, and economic systems, this new generation of bioartists unveils the critical interactions that give shape to our world and the interspecies entanglements that evolve it. Join us for the opening reception of “Symbionts: Contemporary Artist and the Biosphere” on October 20, 2022 at 6:30 PM. Register via the link in our bio! Pictured: Gilberto Esparza, “Plantas autofotosinthéticas” [Autophotosynthetic Plants], 2013–14 (detail). Photo: Axel Heise