Baker Artist Portfolios

Artemis Herber shows where we currently stand. Humans have made the world fragile, and the collapse shows around each corner.

The German-Greek artist shows how deep time is transformed into fleeting moments through human activities. For this she primarily uses matter from geological time or materials that come out of the mining and extortion process.

In the wider context Herber explores how myths are revealed in the new human made top stratum through metabolic regimes and their tectonic intervention, exploitation, and the use of land. Enriched with incorporated geological materials, ancient natural myths, such as Gaia and their relatives, are displayed in her work as hybrid configurations of performance, and interdisciplinary installations in thematic spaces. These subjects open a time-spanning look at the relevance of grand narratives in the face of man-made “Erdauflösung“ (the disappearance of Earth’s critical zone).

Her new eponymous series of “Danger Zones” addresses the worldwide dwindling biosphere as an impact of the Anthropocene and creates a sculptural monument worth seeing.

Herber has exhibited in the US, Germany, UK, Italy, Portugal, Spain, and Greece. Highlights include the Albright-Knox Gallery Art Museum NY, American University Museum of the Katzen Art Center DC, San Jose Museum of Art CA, Goethe-Institut Washington DC, National Trust’s Newark Park UK, Cheltenham Museum UK, Kunstverein Paderborn Germany, Spartanburg Art Museum SC, McLean Projects for the Arts, and Munich International Airport, Germany.

Her research upon the Anthropocene embedded in the field of polit-myth and experimental geography has been deepened through residencies at Rensing Center SC, theCoLAB, London, and Skopelos Foundation of Arts, Delphi Residency, Greece, and the La Baldi Residency, Italy.

Public Art installations: Munich International Airport, Germany, Public Library Paderborn, Germany, Navy Pier Waterfront in Washington, DC, Patterson Park, Baltimore MD.

Her works have been published in Voyage Baltimore Magazine, Bold Journey Magazine, Washington Post, and catalogs of “Danger Zones, Hybrid Configurations within Reformed Landscapes”, “Mono-Pol-Lithic”, supported by the Maryland State Arts Council written by List Faust, "Mapping Meaning" Issue #4 - Life After the Anthropocene: Envisioning the Futures of the World, and Studio Visit Magazine.