Mnemosyne: A Voice for Nature

“What comes to mind when you think of Natural Land use?”
Explorations into the Contemporary Art of Land Use Interpretation

Baltimore, MD — Goucher Art Galleries presents Mnemosyne – Memory as a Voice for Nature, an international exhibition and research-based artist collective that reconsiders how visual memory operates as a critical tool for understanding land use, environmental transformation, and ecological justice.
Part of the Mnemosyne Project, Cycle 2025/26, this exhibition situates memory not as a passive act of recollection, but as an active, generative force—one that connects personal histories, cultural inheritance, and material landscapes to the urgent realities of environmental change. Through contemporary artistic practices, Mnemosyne – Memory as a Voice for Nature examines how land is shaped, altered, and remembered amid human-induced tectonic shifts.
This cycle for the group brings together 20 international artists and scholars whose work explores the interpretation of land through material culture, critical geography, legal theory, ecology, and embodied experience. Collectively, the participants challenge conventional definitions of “land,” reframing it as a site of memory, power, extraction, resilience, and care. The exhibition foregrounds environmental justice while remaining deeply rooted in diverse cultural, historical, and natural contexts.
Here, artists reflect on humanity’s shared environment by tracing narratives of environmental degradation alongside possibilities for regeneration. Their works span personal, ancestral, and imagined landscapes, forming a global constellation that highlights the planet’s fragile and critical zones. Through these layered perspectives, memory emerges as a voice—one capable of bearing witness, preserving knowledge, and imagining alternative ecological futures.
Exhibition & Program Details

Opening Reception: February 19 | 4-8PM
Performance: February 19 | 5-5:45PM
In-Person Artist Talk I: February 21 | 2-4PM
Curator’s Tour: February 25 | 5-6PM
Workshop: Gilding for Artists: February 25 | 6-8PM
Online Lecture with Dr. Christoph Quarch: February 27 | 3-4PM
Online Artist Talk II: March 8 | 11AM -1PM

Artists included:
William Adair, Zsolt Asztalos, Albert Bonay, Iris Brosch, Yannis Christakos, Naomi Fitzsimmons, David Goldenberg, Artemis Herber, ANUnaran Jargalsaikhan, Maria Karametou, Sanzi Kermes, Perla Krauze, Amanda Newall, Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos, Judith Pratt, Lua Rivera, Marc Robarge, Laura Rosser, Alina Teodorescu, & Olav Westphalen