Special exhibition "GROUND TRUTH"
Lena von Goedeke, Schaufler Residency@TU Dresden 2024
Duration: September 30, 2024 to January 24, 2025
Exhibition venue: Gallery of the Office for Academic Heritage, Scientific and Art Collections, TUD Dresden University of Technology (Helmholtzstraße 9, 01069 Dresden)
Opening hours: Monday to Friday 10:00-18:00
Admission: free
Curatorial team: Gwendolin Kremer, Pauline Hohn, Andreas Kempe

The Arctic epitomises the ongoing transformation of the global climate like no other ecosystem. Numerous disciplines from environmental sciences to computer science are intensively researching this region in order to gather knowledge and data. Equally, the northern polar region is of great interest to the visual arts. Our current resident artist Lena von Goedeke at Schaufler Lab@TU Dresden is the best example of this. For years now she lives and works on Spitsbergen, her artistic works bear witness to the climate crisis and the alienation that goes hand in hand with changes to the ecosystem. Between permafrost mud sculptures and aesthetic photographs of the infinite polar firmament, in the exhibition GROUND TRUTH, von Goedeke brings the ‘extreme futures’ impressively and directly to our attention. 

After a successful first funding phase (2020-2024), the Schaufler Lab@TU Dresden began its second three-year funding phase in April this year. Lena von Goedeke is the first of three artists-in-residence to accompany the research at the Lab. In the first funding phase, the internationally renowned artists Christian Kosmas Mayer, Anton Ginzburg, Esmeralda Conde Ruiz and Rosa Barba were nominated for the Schaufler Residency@TU Dresden.
The Schaufler Lab@TU Dresden is a lively forum for forward-looking dialog between science, art and society at the TUD Dresden University of Technology. The Schaufler Lab@TU Dresden consists of the Schaufler Kolleg@TU Dresden and the Schaufler Residency@TU Dresden. It brings (young) scientists together with international artists. In the second funding phase of the Lab, the artists of the Schaufler Residency@TU Dresden together with the doctoral students of the Schaufler Lab@TU Dresden question current technologies, their origins and effects on modern living environments under the guiding theme "Data↔Worlds. Socio-technical and cultural syntheses of new realities".
The Schaufler Residency@TU Dresden is an artist-in-residence program that offers established international artists the opportunity to become part of the scientific community for six months and to conduct collaborative research. The residency is based at the Office for Academic Heritage, Scientific and Art Collections of the TUD Dresden University of Technology.

Further links
Website Lena von Goedeke: https://www.vongoedeke.com/
Website of the Schaufler Lab@TU Dresden: www.tu-dresden.de/gsw/schauflerlab
Information on the residency program: https://tu-dresden.de/gsw/schauflerlab/schaufler-residency
TU Dresden: www.tu-dresden.de
THE SCHAUFLER FOUNDATION: www.the-schaufler-foundation.de