Planet B

Nicolas Bourriaud invites artists from all around the world to question the
contemporaneity of the romantic concept of the sublime, at the age of the
anthropocene.

The awareness of climate change modified our collective relation to the earth
in many ways, but it also impacted the human gaze. Within this context, the
romantic notion of the sublime has been given a new turn: based on the
relation between humans and nature, defined as a feeling of "delight
associated with terror" and by the contrast between immensity and the
individual, the sublime is the aesthetic notion that corresponds to the
anthropocene.
In Planet B. Climate Change and the New Sublime, French writer and curator
Nicolas Bourriaud invites artists from all around the world to question the
contemporaneity of this concept through 3 chapters unfolding in 3 acts of the
exhibition: 1. Intercessions (Every exhibition is a forest). 2. Charles Darwin
and the coral reefs. 3. The tragic death of Nauru Island.

Planet B. Climate Change and the New Sublime is the last chapter of
exhibitions initiated with The Great Acceleration. Art in the Anthropocene
(Taipei Biennial, 2014), followed by Crash Test. The Molecular Turn (La
Panacée, 2018) and The 7th continent (Istanbul Biennial, 2019).
This catalogue is published on the occasion of an eponymous exhibition taking
place at Palazzo Bollani, Venice, from April 20th to November 27th, 2022, with
Nils Alix-Tabeling, Dana-Fiona Armour, Charles Avery, Gianfranco Baruchello,
Hicham Berrada, Bianca Bondi, Peter Buggenhout, Roberto Cabot, Alex Cerveny,
Anna Conway, Sterling Crispin, Kendell Geers, Anna Bella Geiger, Loris Gréaud,
Max Hooper Schneider, Agata Ingarden, Per Kirkeby, Agnieszka Kurant, Romana
Londi, Turiya Magadlela, Lucia Pizzani, Thiago Rocha Pitta, Ylva Snöfrid,
Nicolás Uriburu, Ambera Wellmann, Haegue Yang, Phillip Zach.