Forthcoming and RECENT work
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University of Cambridge creative project, Arts and Humanities Research Council supported. Round-table discussion 7th June in Cambridge.
Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris. May 2024.
Passa Porta, International House of Literature, Brussels. April 2024.
PlanetWoman premiere in California, 7pm 28th April 2024, Whittier Memorial Chapel. PlanetWoman concept and Blue Planet Blues poem by Zsuzsanna Ardó, music by Karen Sunabacka, Whittier College Choir conducted by Alexandra Grabarchuk.
PlanetWoman workshop about the creative process behind a new, collaborative work: artist/writer Zsuzsanna Ardó, composer Birgitta Flick, conductor Lone Larsen and the VoNo ensemble creating a new work together. URUK New Music Festival, Stockholm, 20th April.
PlanetWoman premiere in Stockholm’s opera house of unconventional productions, 7pm 19th April 2024, URUK New Music Festival. PlanetWoman concept and PlanetWoman poem by Zsuzsanna Ardó, music by Birgitta Flick, VoNo Ensemble conducted by Lone Larsen.
PlanetWoman premiere in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada, 7pm 5th April 2024. Gradiva poem by Zsuzsanna Ardó, music by Karen Sunabacka, premiered by the Grebel Chamber Choir.
PlanetWoman premieres in NY, in March 2024. PlanetWoman creative concept and three poems by Zsuzsanna Ardó, set to music by three NY composers.
PlanetWoman — collaborations with creatives from Austria, Canada, Germany, Serbia, Singapore, Sweden, UK, Ukraine, US. An innovative, coherent choral programme of new works of urgency, all (but one) by women composers. Concept, writing, curating and visual art by Zsuzsanna Ardó, art director of the PlanetWoman international creative project. More on LinkedIn page and Women’s Song Forum article.
Thresholds, Literary Café 2023 , Camden Arts Centre, featured speaker.
Women’s Song Forum article.org/2023/06/11/planetwoman-11th-century-meets-21st-part-1/, published in California.
Shadow and Light: Witness, Memory, Solidarity, international exhibition of poetry/text and digital art at Artists’ Alley, 410 E Daniel St, Champaign, 9am-8pm daily. Part of the Boneyard Arts Festival, University of Illinois, supported by the Center for Advanced Studies and McKinley Foundation, Urbana, 4 April - 2 June 2023.
Glacier Strikes Back, climate-change land art installations, South of England and North-West of France, 2023.
Gaïa brûlant, paradis perdi installation of paintings and mixed media, Domaine de Boisbuchet, France, June 2023.
How do creatives think? Talks at the international research centre for design, the Domaine de Boisbuchet: 19:30 14th, 10:30 24th June 2023.
The Ice-Seller (my poetry and artist book) in international pop-up exhibition, Butler Studio Room 2nd Fl. Rm 203 Columbia University Libraries, from 14 April 2023)
Bones to Dogs, Amor y Guerra, Princess Ljubice Palace, Belgrade. Text by Zsuzsanna Ardó, music by S. Karanac, performed by Milica Jovičić and Milica Ilić.(8pm 13th December 2022)
Ovid in the Red Studio: Metamorphosis — Light Bending Walls. Digital art series created during Britten Pears Arts creative residence. (June2022)
Glacier Strikes Back: series of land art installations along the disappearing Suffolk coastline. (June 2022)
Britten Pears Arts Creative Residence in the Red Studio, awarded by BPA for writing and painting, during the Aldeburgh Festival of Music and the Arts 2022.
Spinaria: large-scale fine art prints for 3D installation as set design, with morphing oversized digital projection. Grand Théâtre de la Ville de Luxembourg, 2022.
Hekate’s Picnic: concept, script, art, and war. Talk/presentation, Grand Théâtre de la Ville, Luxembourg. (12 June 2022)
Developing concepts and script for opera. Talk. TROIS C-L - Centre de Création Chorégraphique Luxembourgeois. (6pm 3 June 2022)
From life to idea, from idea to artistic concept. Seminar for artists, printmakers, for students and teachers. Printmaking Studio, Florence. (10am 25 May 2022)
Invited Artist in Residence creating a new series of work in Florence’s iconic printmaking art studio. (May 2022)
Writing for opera and music theatre. King’s College London, Speaker, Research Seminar. (10am 28 April 2022)
Glacier Strikes Back, land art installation series, Cambridge, Grantchester, Hampstead, Berlin, Florence, 2022.
UNESCO exhibition, PlanetWoman, Sergi Mas Hall, Sant Julià de Lòria, Andorra. (17 March-14 May 2022)
Live world premier of Tears, Apples, and Stones. Concept/text by Zsuzsanna Ardó, music by Jonathan David. NYC. (19 May 2022)
DADA NY 15’, concept and text by Zsuzsanna Ardó, music by Daniel Andor-Ardó, in live concert in May, in Manhattan. (19 May 2022)
Poetry and photography in Shadow and Light exhibition, Arion Press Gallery, 1802 Hays Street, The Presidio, San Francisco, 6th March-15th May 2022.
Ars Musica Festival, Namur, Belgium. Dawn Horse Variation in live concert, poem by Zsuzsanna Ardó, music by Stephane Orlando; in ‘Otto, l’Homme réécrit’ by M-A Mathieu and S. Orlando, 15.12.21
Writing Life. Speaker, Panel discussion, School of Oriental and African Studies, London University, 26 November 2021.
SOAS Concert Series, 7pm 26.11.21. Why would we remain? Concept, poem, art by Z. Ardó, music by G. Khayam.
Glacier Strikes Back. Climate-change land art installations where the Danube meets the Sava, 2021.
From life to page. Speaker, UK/Australia Season 2021-22, King’s College, 4 November 2021.
UK/Australia Season 2021-22, 12pm 4.11.21. Who are you? premier. Poem by Zsuzsanna Ardó, music by Hayes Biggs, vocals by A. Evans.
Glacier Strikes Back. Climate-change land art installations where the Mediterranean Sea meets the Iberian Peninsula, Valencia 2021
Dawn Horse, concept, design, poetry and direction. Festival of Contemporary Music, Ensems, Valencia, Spain, 2021.
Balkans,Mirror Mirror, Brrrrrrrrrrexit,Polar self Portraits_1 and Polar self Portraits_3. Directed by Z. Ardó. Earth Day Art Event, Franklin University Switzerland, 21.4.21.
Big Freeze Challenge: Polar self Portraits_3. SPRI Polar Museum Cambridge. Polar self Portraits Curator: Z. Ardó. Earth Day premier 21.4.21, Lugano.
Polar self Portraits_2 film European premier. Launch. Directed by Zsuzsanna Ardó, music by John Bostock. Big Freeze Art Festival Polar Museum Cambridge 4-14.3.21.
Inside Polar Artists’ Mind II, 9.3.21. Panel discussion about creative processes in visual art and music, convened by Z. Ardó.
Inside Polar Artists’ Mind I. Article written by Zsuzsanna Ardó, published by SPRI Polar Museum Big Freeze Art Festival 9.3.21.
Bears in My Eyes Big Freeze Exhibition. Polar Museum Cambridge, 4-14.3.21.
Haiku Triptych,Life Songs Live concert premiers L’Chaim — 5.3.21 Jaffa. Poem by Zsuzsanna Ardó, music by Ariel Lazarus.
Aix Académie with A. Maalouf, S. McBurney, P. Sellars, D. Sicard, P. Audi. 22-26.6.21.
Ilulissat Art Museum, Greenland. Arctic premier of Polar self Portraits_2 film, music by John Bostock. 11.20—2.21. Curator: Zsuzsanna Ardó.
Decameron-9, the online exhibition of pandemic stories in 91 paintings inspired by Boccaccio, Pepys, Freud and London life in the time of covid.
SeenUnSeen. Land art installation and public engagement about pandemic, science and the nature of perception.
Who are you? performed and recorded by Amber Evans, poem by Zsuzsanna Ardó, music by Hayes Biggs.
Icantbreathe, a triptych; Triangular; Self, Sold.
Black and white photography series: Time19, Anthropocene, SeenUnSeen.
The Day After: Art Whispers, an experimental, international curatorial project linking artists during the pandemic.
Postponed due to pandemic include Et ardo, et son un ghiaccio, a series of fine art prints exhibited while creating new work, experimenting as guest artist of the iconic printmaking studio in Florence. .Reflections on Race to the Text of Zsuzsanna Ardó premiers in New York. Earlier digital premier venues include the Contemporary Art Centre in Slovakia, the British and the European Parliament, and the Andorra Congrés Centre Ordino.
Dumas’ Ripost Poem by Zsuzsanna Ardó, music by Toby Twining. Australian premier by Grammy-winning Roomful of Teeth at the Adelaide Art Festival, Australia, 7.3.2020:
Blue Planet Blues triptych Poems and concept by Zsuzsanna Ardó, music by Jonathan David). Featured on the multimedia artspace Un-American Blackbox US, 30.10 - 10.11.2020.
The Glacier Strikes Back. Climate-change land art installations where the Andes meet the Pacific Ocean, December 2019.
Heading North again, working as artist in residence on board of a ship, seeing, teaching, painting.
The Glacier Strikes Back. Climate-change land art installations where the North Atlantic meets the Norwegian Sea.
In August 2019, guest artist of 14th Art Colony of the Museum and the City of Skopje; paintings, fine art prints, collaborations with local and international artists. Rape of Nature at Gallery 8 in the Old Bazaar, my exhibition with a Macedonian artist, from 27 August to 17th September, featured also two digital world premiers of music — my poems set to music by an American and a British composer.
The Glacier Strikes Back. Climate-change land art installations in the centre of the Balkans, by the Vardar that meets the Aegean Sea.
Exhibition at UNESCO’s HQ in Paris. Triptych in acrylic.
Cité des Arts International. climate-change-driven art installation by the Seine and an exhibition by Zsuzsanna Ardó and Shqipe Mehmeti.
All Things in Nature, oil paintings by Z. Ardó, her second exhibition opens in Florence, for Leonardo’s anniversary 2019.
The Glacier Strikes Back. Climate-change land art installations in London — in and around Marble Arch, Parliament Square, Trafalgar and Waterloo Bridge. Some of the installation process was also captured by K. Liedtke, a cabinetmaker from Berlin.
The Hat: Arendt Meets Heidegger opera premier in Chicago 2019. Libretto by Zsuzsanna Ardó, music by Karen Siegel. Paintings and etchings inspired by The Hat: Arendt Meets Heidegger were featured as installation by Thompson Street Company during the performances at the Athenaeum Theatre of Chicago.
UN International Women’s Day exhibition in Skopje, Fine art print triptych by Z. Ardó.
7th International Print Biennale jury shortlisted The Glacier Strikes Back,my fine art print inspired by my land art installation around the eroding English coastlines.
The Glacier Strikes Back. England and its vulnerable seashores, including the coast by the Irish, Celtic and the North Sea, the English and the Bristol Channel, and an Elizabethan Hall on England's glaciated Jurassic and Cretaceous land. Extensive series of climate change land art installations.
Drawing Britain: litmus test. International curatorial project about current perceptions of Britain by artists. Curatorial concept devised and project launched during Colours for the Planet UNESCO Andorra Artist Residency, 2018. Article published by openDemocracy.net. Curator: Zsuzsanna Ardó.
Jury-selected artist representing the UK the 10th UNESCO Colours for the Planet Art Camp in Ordino, Andorra, 2018. Large-scale triptych painting featured at the UNESCO exhibition in Andorra, and will be part of the touring exhibition. Artist presentation in workshop format about Britain.
Cantata Corpo, exhibition of pastel paintings by Z. Ardó featured at the oldest opera house in Italy throughout 4.18. "Bold set of pastel paintings" – wrote The Florentine.
Who are you -- identity vortex, published by openDemocracy, poem by Zsuzsanna Ardó, Who are you?, music by Hayes Biggs, performed by the C4 Ensemble.
2nd International Artist Residence Struga in Macedonia, painting with artists from Albania, Macedonia, Italy, Kosovo, Croatia, Malta, Belarus, Slovenia, Slovakia, Serbia, Romania, Brazil, Turkey, Ukraine, Moldavia, Saudi Arabia and Australia.
Research in Florence, Siena, Assisi, Luca, and 'conversations' daily with Giotto and Lucretius; drawing the nature of things. The perception of the human body and its context swerved in Giotto's art, and his way of observing, thinking, feeling then rippled on. The ripples deepened the swerve through the work of other artists, communicating game-changing ideas. How can such a momentous swerve in art, perception and thinking energise the impulse to inspire a new swerve... this time in attitudes and perceptions of climate change?
Featured speaker at the XI Florence Biennale – Creativity & Sustainability, 10th October, 2017, Florence. Polar self Portraits, the film, is selected for screening and discussion as part of the official programme of the Biennale.
Artist residencies in the depth of rural France: a farm, Association St Henri, in the Pyrenees, and at the Centre for Art, Science and Technology by the Seine. New paintings include the series La mere en fièvre, auctioned first weekend of September. Salut Sapiens, my site-specific installation, and Open Studio and exhibition walk-through
Contemporary Art Fair for Independent Artists, 2018. Jury member. London, UK.
My Europe, My Rights, exploring the notion of Europe and rights through art. Jury member. European Parliament, September 2017.
Spelling Semitic Poem by Zsuzsanna Ardó, music by Suad Bushnaq. Premier 5.7.17 North Carolina.
Press preview of Viva Arte Viva, Biennale Arte 57, meeting fellow artists and curators, participating in the OpenTable discussions, including one with Gold Lion winner of the Venice Biennale, Franz Erhard Walther. Giving a talk about curatorial work and climate change in one of the Venice art schools. Research in the earliest teatro anatomicos.
Composers Now Festival 4.217 concert premier of The Hat: Arendt Meets Heidegger. Concept/libretto by Zsuzsanna Ardó, music by Karen Siegel.
C4 Ensemble NY Artist in Residence 2016-17 in New York. Polar self Portraits by Ardó featured by the C4 Ensemble throughout the 2016-17 concert cycle, auctioned in support of contemporary music-making. C4's Collaborations Concert Series premiers three poems by Z. Ardó: Art?Works!, set to music by B. Sheppard, in November; Seikilos, set to music by P. Townsend, in March; Te -- Kedves, ne feledd, set to music by A. Polonyi, in June.
Four land art installations on the top of the Arctic glacier that carved out London and the Thames Valley.
Polar self Portraits: Artists from Six Continents on Thin Ice, published by openDemocracy.net.
Adore Noir, the black and white fine art photography magazine published in December The curious case of the vanishing ice caps, one of my series shot in the High Arctic.
Polar self Portraits. Creatives without Borders video installation featured in the Arctic at the Ilulissat Kunstmuseum in September, the BAS Antarctic research stations, the Moroccan Contemporary Art Gallery in Asilah, the National Museum of Ethnography in Slovenia, and universities in Albania, Macedonia and Washington.
Il castello et la carovana.Publicengagementthroughart workshops, installation and exhibition in Milan. Invited by local organisations and the local council. Teaching a series of six art workshops for different age groups and skill levels. Exhibition including a series of digital art work based on photography I worked on at the local castello and carovana site, and an installation.
Polar self Portraits – Earth, Impermanence. Installation curated at the UACNY, in NY. Curatorial concept: Z. Ardó. Installation, paintings and sculptures.
The Creatives without Borders arts projectMirror Mirror exhibition and Coding You, Coding Me installation opened at the European Parliament in September.
Polar self Portraitsworkshops and flash mobs by the sea and the lakes in the North of England: Blackpool area and the Lake District. Press reports about the land art installations and workshops. Featured for two weeks at the Bellerive Château during the art festival in May. One of the articles in the press can be read here.
Artist residence on the coastline of the Aegean Sea in Izmir, dating back to 4000 BCE in its current form. I worked with artists from Turkey, the Balkans, India, Iran and Japan. My work included The Unbearable Lightness of Being series, curatorial work on Polar self Portraits, and a photography essay about life inside the ancient mosque of Izmir and Greco-Roman Library of Celsus in Ephesus.
ASL Residency at Vyt, in the company of deers at dawn and dusk . Open Studios exhibition.
International Art Festival in the centre of France, has Invited me as participating artist and curator for the third time running. Over thousands of people came to see the exhibition. Worked with artists from Grenada, Haiti, Russia, Hungary and France. Created my flash mob, The Sea in the Garden, with the public, and installed the exhibition Autoportraits polaires. Exhibition walk-throughs and workshop for local schools and visitors.
Africa, Europe, America – installation at the annual Art Festival in the heart of France, in Bellerive; curatorial talks and educational workshops. Reviewed by the La Montaigne. The Calm before the Storm about related issues was published by openDemocracy.
Arctic Pillows solo exhibition at Google HQ NYC, 2015. Arctic Stories. Paintings, land art, photography, filming while working on a High Arctic expedition of artists and scientists on a tall ship, exploring the Arctic High Sea, ice fields, floating icebergs, fjords and glaciers. Here There, Now Then is about the Arctic, energy and climate change at the Royal Institution. Talks and workshops for school and artist groups. The RI hosted a public discussion event featuring an artist and scientist panel. The HTNT project won an Arts Council England Award. Part of the exhibition transferred to Ateliér Ardó. Education in the RI Atrium Gallery: talk and creative workshop for art students about the Here There, Now Then project, artist-led walk through the exhibition and drawing workshop on the theme of imaginary landscapes, based on the talk and the works of the exhibition. Arctic Mediterranean, video installation about the High Arctic at the Festival of Ideas, Nature for Nature public/academic debate, Bristol. Arctic art meets the public in public spaces. A series of public engagement activities I devised and carried out to facilitate engagement with and discussions about art, the arctic and climate change. Venues included Trafalgar Square by the National Gallery, The Duke of York Column by the Institute of Contemporary Art, and on the highest point of London. More under Engaging.
Given the urgency, relevance and legacy of this theme, I've decided to open up my PsP project, and to invite fellow artists to consider their interpretation. This theme-sharing is producing very different creative interpretations, entering into dialogue with my own work and each other. This focussed but varied visual conversation is creating further dynamics and potential to engage the theme, artists and the public around the world – in Greenland in the Arctic, at the British Antarctic Survey's research stations in Antarctica, a gallery in an old Watchtower in Croatia, at universities in Macedonia and Albania in the Balkans, in NY, Washington, London, a moated castle in France, and a contemporary art gallery in Asilah in Morocco, Africa.
To create a confluence of art, action and the public, I have designed flash mobs and land art installations.
Solo and group exhibitions include exhibitions I curated at the British Film Academy/BAFTA, the British Parliament, the Royal Institution, Harvard University, Google, the European Commission, the National Centre for Creativity of Malta, the National Museum of Slovenia, the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts and the India International Centre in Delhi.