Uta Kogelsberger

Some out of the ordinary happenings at Hapax Living Room on May 4th at the PK tea party. We had genuine ‘warm forming’ which is described in declassified CIA papers as a stage in psychokinesis where metal becomes pliable from mind power. @faypresto arrived at the end and instantly bent a fork too! Thank you so much to everyone who participated. 🥄🙌🪄

Newcastle gallery trip recommendations: 1-9: For All At Last Return, major group show exploring the health of oceans, with artists working at the intersection of art and ecology. @balticgateshead 10-13: Some Kind of Love: Actions and Reactions to Living on a Damaged Planet, Uta Kögelsberger (@fire_complex ) explores relationships between human and ecological systems in a time of environmental change. @hatton_newcastle 14-16: As We Fade, Saodat Ismailova (@saodatismailova )- cinematic, dream-like observations on collective memory, nature, layered social histories of Central Asia. @balticgateshead 17-19: Slugtown Pop-up exhibition, featuring potato constellation (and works from Salon: Slugtown fundraiser) @slugtown_ 20: Best pub in Newcastle: @thecumberlandarms

⏳ Time is running out to visit ‘Some Kind of Love: Actions and Reactions to Living on a Damaged Planet’, a solo exhibition by award-winning artist Uta Kögelsberger. The exhibition closes on Saturday 24 January 2026, at 5pm. Artworks include 'Fire Complex' (2020–22), 'Forest Complex' (2023–24), 'Off Road' (2008–2014), and 'Forest Choir' (2025) - a new piece created in collaboration with the Brussels Opera Youth Choir. Julie Milne, Chief Curator of Art Galleries at North East Museums, said: "This exhibition offers a powerful artistic exploration of climate change and humanity's relationship with nature. Join us to experience Uta's compelling vision of these vital and complex issues." Visit the Hatton Gallery website to find out more and plan a visit. @fire_complex

⏳ It’s the final week! Don't miss 'Some Kind of Love: Actions and Reactions to Living on a Damaged Planet' by award-winning artist Uta Kögelsberger. Explore the complex relationships between human and ecological systems in a time of environmental change through video, sound, and installation. 🌿 Closes Sat 24 Jan, 5pm. Free entry. Visit the Hatton Gallery website to find out more and plan a visit. @fire_complex

'Some Kind of Love: Actions and Reactions to Living on a Damaged Planet', a climate-focused solo exhibition by award-winning artist Uta Kögelsberger at @hatton_newcastle , beautifully timed with @baltic_gateshead 's 'For All At Last Return'. Kögelsberger (@fire_complex ) explores climate change’s impact on forests in Austria and the US. Through a series of photographs and videos, she looks at how Austrian forests are being devastated by beetle infestations and intense rainfall that weakens root systems, causing vast trees to collapse down hillsides. A lone forest ranger in an orange high-vis jacket appears against a massive landscape of dying trees, working with limited resources to address this environmental disaster. Her focus in the US includes a video capturing an LA tradition of 4x4s driving to the beach through the mist, evoking the American Wild West and Mad Max. The attention then returns to the trees, looking at the plight of the sequoias on the West Coast. Uta herself has lived through a forest fire, which she describes as extremely stressful. In her final video, she collaborates with a Belgian choir who each sing their love to a forest tree, offering a sense of hope in this moment of crisis for our woodlands. 'Some Kind of Love' continues @hatton_gallery until 24 January 2026 'For All At Last Return' continues @baltic_gateshead until 7 June 2026 Installation views, Uta Kögelsberger, 'Some Kind of Love' at Hatton Gallery, Newcastle. Courtesy @colindavisonphotography / Image 2: Artist Uta Kögelsberger (@fire_complex ) with @AliceWSharp , Artistic Director and Founder @invisible_dust #ClimateArt #ArtAndClimate #UtaKogelsberger #NewcastleExhibitions #BalticGateshead #HattonGallery

Today marks the 10-year anniversary of celebrated artist, Gustav Metzger’s, visionary art project, Remember Nature.   To commemorate this moment, artists across the nation will be leading a day of art action to take a stand for and help shine a light on the issues our natural world faces.   From artworks based on coastal erosion, food security and declining green spaces, the Remember Nature 2025 poster series is a powerful call to ‘remember nature’ at a time when it needs us the most.   Head to the link in our bio to get your hands on these thought-provoking posters, as well as an exclusive t-shirt, where a proportion of the proceeds will go to the RSPB, to help us continue the fight to save our environment.   #RNGM25

We are excited to feature our next Remember Nature poster, ‘SOME KIND OF LOVE/FOREST CHOIR by: UTA KÖGELSBERGER @fire_complex Working with Hatton Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne Some Kind of Love/Forest Choir, is a collaboration between Uta Kogelsberger and the Brussels Opera Youth Choir. It draws on the popular belief that playing music to plants accelerates their growth and improves their immune systems, a notion long disputed by the scientific community. Recent sophisticated recording techniques have shown that plants communicate with each other and the outside world through sounds.Taking these new understandings as a starting point, Forest Choir presents a playful interpretation of humankind’s desire to control nature and our often-failed attempts to do so. It sets up a collaboration with the next generation—now left with the responsibility of repairing the damage we have caused—to sing ecosystems back to health through the performance of a new song of love, loss, and shared grief. // Commenting on urgent themes including coastal erosion, food security, glacier loss and declining access to green space, the poster series is a powerful call to ‘remember nature’ at a time when it needs us most. Reflections on the natural world inspire many of the posters in the series and the critical need for environmental action. // Available to order now, printed and distributed by King & McGaw, the powerful collection of 17 artist posters features original work by artists who will each be leading a day of action on 4th November. The posters are available to purchase online and directly from partner institutions, with a proportion of proceeds supporting the work of UK nature charity, the RSPB, which carries out conservation on a large scale, protecting and restoring habitats to save species from extinction. FOR MORE INFORMATION - link in bio REMEMBERNATURE.ART/POSTERS // Follow us: #RNGM25 @remembernaturemetzger // Remember Nature has been kindly supported by Arts Council England, Teiger Foundation, Hauser & Wirth, University for the Creative Arts at Farnham. @aceagrams @teigerfoundation @hauserwirth @unicreativearts Co-curators: @andreagregsonsculpture @libraryoflight

We are thrilled to be part of this year's Art History Festval 25! If you are in London and would like hear more about Remember Nature 2025, there are still free tickets available (LINK IN BIO). 🌿 @forarthistory What's on today at Art History Festival 2025: 🎨 AAH Key Event - Creative Resistance: An Evening of Art History Festival 2025 Join us today for an evening of VR experiences and critical conversations around how art shapes memory, sparks ecological awareness, and speaks to resistance in our changing world, part of Art History Festival 2025. 🌍🖼️ 🌱 Remember Nature: Art, Ecology, and Collective Action – artists Paul Harfleet (@thepansyproject ), Uta Kögelsberger (@fire_complex ) & Yu-Chen Wang (@yuchenwang__ ) introduced by co-curator JoJoelson @libraryoflight - exploring art's role in environmental & social action. 🗣️In Conversation: Amalia Pica (@amaliapica ) and Richard Taws (@richardtaws ) - on art, language, protest & interspecies communication. 👁️(Hi)story of a Painting: Virtual Reality experience - a powerful VR experience (Booking required – email us at [email protected] to reserve a slot! 🥂 Wind down the evening with a chance to mingle, reflect, and connect over drinks. 🗓️ 17 September | 4:45pm–8:00pm 📍 70 Cowcross Street, London 🎟️ Free, booking required via link in bio. Explore our programme - with over 40 events happening today and more than 130 taking place throughout the festival week, across the UK, both in person and online #ArtHistoryFestival #ArtHistoryFestival2025

LAST CHANCE!⁠ Nature on Notice: Contemporary Art and Ecology at LACMA closes Saturday, August 2.⁠ ⁠ LA friends, if you haven’t seen Rainbow Falls in person, this is the weekend to do it. At 42 x 56 inches, it takes on a more immersive, spatial feel.⁠ Also, sounds like there’s a fun closing party ;) ⁠ Part of Getty’s PST Art initiative, Art & Science Collide, this group exhibition explores how we shape and are shaped by the natural world.⁠ Swipe for highlights and work by other incredible artists in the show.⁠ ⁠ 📍 Charles White Elementary Gallery⁠ 🕒 Sat 1–4 PM + closing event 4–7 PM⁠ 🎉 Music, art-making, conversation. ⁠ ⁠ Huge thanks to the wonderful @eveschillo for curating this brilliant show, and to @lacma for including my work in the exhibition and collection.⁠ ⁠ #LACMA #NatureOnNotice #ContemporaryPhotography #ArtAndEcology #LauraPlageman #PSTART #pstartandsciencecollide ⁠#reverseofaruin⁠

Watching these trees grow over the past several years has truly been one of the most meaningful things I’ve been a part of. After the Castle Fire tore through Sequoia Crest in 2020 and destroyed so many of the ancient monarchs, we knew we had to help bring life back. As part of our work with @archangelancienttree , @jketchum22 and I drove over 400 sequoia trees across the country, some carrying the genetics of some of the legendary giants that once stood right there. Our team flew out to join the community and help with the replanting effort alongside local students. It was powerful to be on the ground, putting those young trees into soil, and into the hands of people ready to care for them. Huge thanks to Uta Kogelsberger, who initiated the replanting project in Sequoia Crest as part of her powerful work with @fire_complex she made it possible for the community to receive these trees, and played a huge role coordinating the logistics and heart behind the whole effort.🌲 You can watch the video of our replanting here: https://youtu.be/NfKfWDlt__0?feature=shared

We are thrilled to announce our next Lead Artist commissioned for Remember Nature 2025: UTA KÖGELSBERGER  @fire_complex Working with partner HATTON GALLERY, Newcastle // Uta Kögelsberger, (born Brussels, Belgium) is a German/British artist based across London and California. Her work frequently positions itself in the public realm to articulate and engage with ecological, social and political concerns. It has been recognised through exhibitions in leading national and international arts institutions including LACMA, Los Angeles, the Royal Academy, London, GR, Vincent Price Museum, Los Angeles, Les Rencontres, France, the Art Night programme in collaboration with Whitechapel and Hayward Art Galleries, London amongst others.Her work is held in public and private collections including the MFAHand LACMA. She has been awarded the Royal Academy Wollaston Award, the Stanley Picker Fellowship, and the EAA Award for Art in Architecture. Her photographic essays have been featured in Wired, Esquire, GQ, and American Photography. // Follow us: #RNGM25  @remembernaturemetzger // Thanks to our partners: @art__gene @balticgateshead @castcornwall @castlefieldgall @delawarr @fact_liverpool @hatton_newcastle @hauserwirth @ikongallery @karstgallery @kestle_barton @kettlesyard @mimauseful @serpentineuk @tate @turnercontemporary // Remember Nature has been kindly supported by Arts Council England, Teiger Foundation, Hauser & Wirth, University for the Creative Arts at Farnham.  @aceagrams @teigerfoundation @hauserwirth @unicreativearts #rngm25 Portrait Uta Kögelsberger – photo credit: Courtesy of the artist. Co-curators: @andreagregsonsculpture @libraryoflight

Completely fab to collaborate with Uta Kőgelsberger on this eye-of-the storm install for the great mass art event that is Cubitt Invites.. Saturday 7th June from 12-6pm across Cubitt Studios and Gallery, 8 Angel News, London N1 9HH
 
Cubitt Invites… is a celebration of friendship and connection with Cubitt artists and programmes curating the work of guest artists across the studios and the gallery. All Welcome! Plus win a Dexter Dalwood print for £5 @fire_complex @cubitt_gallery Artists exhibiting in Cubitt Invites... AAA Fikayo Adebajo Jonah Alexander Paul Becker Harry Bix, East Anglia Records Kim Bond Phoebe Boswell Natalie Charles John Chilver Than Hussein Clark Michael Coppelov Tom Crawford Will Daniels Lara Davies Liz Davis Ben Deakin Nelson Diplexcito Ben Edge Tom Farthing Annabel Frearson Laura Gannon Babak Ghazi Victoria P Gill Leah Gordon Robyn Graham Paul Hamlyn Jamie Hammill Abigail Hampsey Dereck Harris Annis Harrison Harri Harrison Petra van Harte Kandre Arámide Hassan Nadia Hebson Nicky Hoberman David Hochhauser Lucie Holzer Amanda Houchen Flora Hunt Nikolai Ishchuk Ananya Jain Alison Jones Gareth Jones Kerstin Kartscher Uta Kögelsberger Shivangi Ladha Sally Lewis Funmi Lijadu Ella Lynch Ellie MacGarry Stephanie Maeseele Ian Malhotra Olivia Martha Natasha Moody Simon Moretti Gill Ord Jack Otway Gaia Ozwyn Russell Perkins Alix Philippe Sarah Pickstone Diana Puntar Zara Ramsay Yael Roberts Howard Rogers Marie-Gabrielle Rotie Anne Ryan Ruaidhri Ryan Luke Samuel Michael Schultze Anna Sebastian Rewati Shahani Colin Smith Sarah Staton Ana Teles TETINE: Eli Mejorado and Bruno Verner Asha Vaidyanath Nicole Wermers Laura White Purdey Williams Hendrik Wittkopf Mark Wright Nicholas Wyatt Apologies if I’ve missed anyone..