Moderation: Marta Smolińska

In their artistic practices, Joanna Hoffmann and Theresa Schubert explore a world that often remains unnoticed: the realm of fungi. Fungi – as models of networks, relationships and coexistence – take center stage in their works, which are currently on view at the Gallery of the Polish Institute until the end of November. Moving between art, science and philosophy, the artists reveal how deeply human existence is interwoven with non-human life.

In a conversation moderated by curator Marta Smolińska, the two artists reflect on their distinctive approaches to fungi: as biological agents, as metaphors of transformation, and as carriers of a post-anthropocentric vision of the world.

In her installations, Theresa Schubert explores fungi as sentient beings, using their growth and responses to stimuli to investigate new forms of communication and collaboration between human and non-human organisms.

Joanna Hoffmann leads audiences into immersive XR environments in which the rhizosphere – the invisible mesh of roots, bacteria and fungi – becomes a poetic yet scientific meditation on origin, symbiosis and continuity.

The Artist Talk invites participants to discover the hidden intelligence of fungi — and to imagine new forms of coexistence on our planet.

Talk will be held in English.

Free entry

Address: Gallery of Polish Institute in Berlin, Burgstraße 27, 10178 Berlin