6.-12.5.
Anke Eckardt – Moreth Anhuman H2N3
Installation of prints & sound
sehsaal Vienna
Two series of images and a sound installation relate to each other in the viewing room by depicting different facets of non-human beings.
The visual arrangements, through the depiction of various hides, skins, and feathers, open up surfaces for projection—both for imagined body images and as a symbol for cultural projection (Donna Haraway). Image series a, based on an inherent system of order, appears expandable, while image series b emerges as a triptych.
Auditorily, the artist designs an immersive soundscape that, through the inclusion of historical animal recordings (in collaboration with Prof. Dr. Martin Ullrich, Interdisciplinary Music Research with a focus on Human-Animal Studies, Nuremberg) as well as machine learning to generate previously unknown animal sounds, moves away from the identity-forming nomenclature of human language towards a novel form of imagined interspecies communication.
According to virology, Moreth Anhuman H2N3 belongs to the group of Moreth Anhuman VOI (variants of interest). H - 5 known subtypes: The main protein with which the virus attaches to and enters the host cell. N - 5 known subtypes: The secondary protein that helps the virus to escape from the host cell and spread further.
Legend H and N numbers:
1 Inflatables/Video
2 Image series
3 4-channel sound
4 8-channel sound 5 Sound transducer
Artistic assistance: Antuum
Anke Eckardt explores the fragile interfaces between collective and individual identity and imagination. Her work engages with power structures and the politics of materiality within the context of new technologies. In her installations and sculptural works, she combines sound and light, analog materials, architecture, kinetic elements, text, and new media in diverse constellations. Anke Eckardt is an artist and professor of fine arts at the University of Art and Design Graz. Born in Dresden in 1976, she has lived in Berlin, Los Angeles, Cologne, Kassel, Rome, and Graz, and has resided in Vienna since 2025.
anke eckardt
As part of the Moreth Anhuman series, a new, comprehensive multimedia version of H1N4 featuring kinetic objects and a video and sound installation will be presented from 8 to 11 October 2026 at the Kunsthaus Graz as part of the steirischer herbst festival, commissioned by ORF musikprotokoll.
ORF musikprotokoll
KOMPLIZINNEN I
Alles hat Grenzen NUR DER MONDFISCH NICHT (by Sylvia Eckermann & Gerald Nestler)
Screening
GISCHT / EAERES
Live performance
Künstlerhaus Vienna
KOMPLIZINNEN II
Screening: re-BIRDING (by Michaela Schwentner)
brrds / The Answer Is No
Live performance
Künstlerhaus Vienna
Anke Eckardt – Moreth Anhuman H2N3
Installation of prints & sound
sehsaal Vienna
Two series of images and a sound installation relate to each other in the viewing room by depicting different facets of non-human beings.
The visual arrangements, through the depiction of various hides, skins, and feathers, open up surfaces for projection—both for imagined body images and as a symbol for cultural projection (Donna Haraway). Image series a, based on an inherent system of order, appears expandable, while image series b emerges as a triptych.
Auditorily, the artist designs an immersive soundscape that, through the inclusion of historical animal recordings (in collaboration with Prof. Dr. Martin Ullrich, Interdisciplinary Music Research with a focus on Human-Animal Studies, Nuremberg) as well as machine learning to generate previously unknown animal sounds, moves away from the identity-forming nomenclature of human language towards a novel form of imagined interspecies communication.
According to virology, Moreth Anhuman H2N3 belongs to the group of Moreth Anhuman VOI (variants of interest). H - 5 known subtypes: The main protein with which the virus attaches to and enters the host cell. N - 5 known subtypes: The secondary protein that helps the virus to escape from the host cell and spread further.
Legend H and N numbers:
1 Inflatables/Video
2 Image series
3 4-channel sound
4 8-channel sound 5 Sound transducer
Artistic assistance: Antuum
Anke Eckardt explores the fragile interfaces between collective and individual identity and imagination. Her work engages with power structures and the politics of materiality within the context of new technologies. In her installations and sculptural works, she combines sound and light, analog materials, architecture, kinetic elements, text, and new media in diverse constellations. Anke Eckardt is an artist and professor of fine arts at the University of Art and Design Graz. Born in Dresden in 1976, she has lived in Berlin, Los Angeles, Cologne, Kassel, Rome, and Graz, and has resided in Vienna since 2025.
anke eckardt
As part of the Moreth Anhuman series, a new, comprehensive multimedia version of H1N4 featuring kinetic objects and a video and sound installation will be presented from 8 to 11 October 2026 at the Kunsthaus Graz as part of the steirischer herbst festival, commissioned by ORF musikprotokoll.
ORF musikprotokoll
KOMPLIZINNEN I
Alles hat Grenzen NUR DER MONDFISCH NICHT (by Sylvia Eckermann & Gerald Nestler)
Screening
GISCHT / EAERES
Live performance
Künstlerhaus Vienna
KOMPLIZINNEN II
Screening: re-BIRDING (by Michaela Schwentner)
brrds / The Answer Is No
Live performance
Künstlerhaus Vienna