Solar Breath
Knowing which way the wind blows
28 September 2023 – 27 January 2024

Dennis Oppenheim, Whirlpool – Eye of the Storm, 1978, © Dennis Oppenheim Estate
Venue
ERES Foundation
Römerstraße 15
80801 München
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Opening Hours (From 28 September)
Thursday, 2 – 6 pm
Saturday, 11 am – 6 pm
and by appointment
Admission free
Guided Tours
Thursday, 12 October 2023, 5 pm
Saturday, 21 October 2023, 3 pm
Thursday, 9 November 2023, 6 pm
Saturday, 25 November 2023, 3 pm
Admission free
Artists
Rémy Bender, Hicham Berrada, Bigert & Bergström, Sara Bouchard, Olaf Breuning, Daniel Buren, Vadim Fishkin, Jochen Gerz, Sigurður Guðmundsson, Leiko Ikemura, Romuald Karmakar, Katrin Agnes Klar, Olaf Metzel, Nanne Meyer, Dennis Oppenheim, Marjetica Potrč and Ooze, Marco Schuler, Michael Snow, Paul Valentin
Exhibition
Wind moves, touches, changes. Wind drives us, slows us down, ranges from a gentle breeze to a furious storm. Not only headwind and tailwind as synonyms for easy or difficult progress, but also “a whirlwind that sweeps through the room” describe particularly dynamic situations in linguistic usage. Wind has always dominated seafaring and trade, keeps mills running and is a key to renewable energy. It is therefore quite astonishing that its enormous influence on our lives, on weather, climate and global warming has so far played only a subordinate role in public perception and in climate research.
The exhibition title “Solar Breath” is borrowed from a video work by the Canadian artist Michael Snow, which reflects time, space, light and air movements with the poetic choreography of a curtain dancing in the wind. The “breath of the sun”, its energy acting on the earth, is the motor of planetary circulation, which is responsible for the movements of large-scale air masses and their distribution on earth. The sun's radiation causes heated air masses to rise near the equator and to settle again towards the cooler polar regions. The Coriolis force directs these flowing phenomena, influencing, for example, the directions of rotation of the wind fields around high and low pressure areas or the formation of trade winds and jet streams. If individual elements within these global wind systems change, this can lead to local effects such as heavy rainfall, drought or heat waves.
The exhibition fans out the complex interplay of the winds in an airy, sensual synopsis of contemporary artistic positions. They tell of man's ancient dream of controlling the weather, give shape to meteorological aspects, make mountain winds whisper or fans change the shape of the artwork. Fascinated by the volatility of the winds and their neither visible nor tangible reality, they show the ambivalence of this natural phenomenon – between potential and threat, between lightness and apocalyptic power.
Wissenschaftsprogramm
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Freitag, 13. Oktober 2023, 18 Uhr
Wind und Wetter: Die globalen Auswirkungen von El Niño
Prof. Dr. Daniela Domeisen, Institut für Atmosphäre und Klima, Université de Lausanne / ETH Zürich, SchweizERES Stiftung
Römerstraße 15, 80801 München
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Mittwoch, 22. November 2023, 19 Uhr
Das globale Windsystem. Von Jetstreams, Passatwinden, Flauten und Hurrikans
Prof. Dr. Thomas Birner, Meteorologisches Institut, LMU MünchenERES Stiftung
Römerstraße 15, 80801 München
Eintritt frei. Keine Anmeldung erforderlich. -
Montag, 11. Dezember 2023, 19 Uhr
Mit Laser aus dem All dem Wind ein Profil geben.
LIDAR – Zukunftstechnologie für Wettervorhersagen und Klimamodelle
Prof. Dr. Markus Rapp, Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre, Direktor Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR) OberpfaffenhofenERES Stiftung
Römerstraße 15, 80801 München
Eintritt frei. Keine Anmeldung erforderlich.
Presse
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»Solar Breath«: Eres Stiftung zeigt Wind als »Atem der Sonne«
BR24 Kultur, 28. September 2023, Julian Ignatowitsch
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Alle reden vom Wetter
Münchner Merkur, 27. September 2023, Simone Dattenberger
Artikel als pdf download