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Katie Paterson, 〇 II, 2023

A new painting series, created using pigment made from the ashes of over 10,000 tree species.

Future Library at Edinburgh International Book Festival, 2024

Norway’s Future Library is a powerful gesture of hope for a world beyond our lifetime. Every year, for 100 years, an author writes a new book to be placed inside the library. Every book remains unread until 2114. Created by Scottish artist Katie Paterson in 2014, the project already contains works by writers including Margaret Atwood and Ocean Vuong. Celebrate Future Library’s 10th anniversary as we announce the writer for 2025.

Future Library at 10 & Writer Announcement. Mon 12 Aug 18:30 – 19:30. Book tickets here.

Katie Paterson: Requiem, new book

Co-published by Ingleby Gallery and the National Glass Centre following Paterson’s solo show at Ingleby of the same title in 2022, Requiem explores the artist’s enagagement with deep time and the history of the planet. Featuring text by Jan Zalasiewicz (member of the Anthropocene Working Group and author of The Earth After Us), as well as essays by David Farrier and Jay Griffiths. Designed by Jo Deans.

Future Library handover 2024

Watch the stream from the forest as Valeria Luiselli handed over her manuscript in this mesmerising event this May.

Katie Paterson talks on the main stage at BLOOM Copenhagen, The Art of Deep Time

Bloom is the biggest science and nature festival in Denmark. Bloom brings science and ideas out of the laboratories and auditoriums and helps us reflect on the world, the universe, and ourselves. Under the swaying treetops of the historical park Søndermarken, Bloom presents some of today’s most recognized scientists, researchers, philosophers, and artists. Explore talks, walks, music and art while casting a curious gaze at the mysteries and wonders of nature.

Bloom took place in Søndermarken in Copenhagen on 24–26 May 2024.

STARSPHERE

Katie Paterson has become part of an exciting, ambitious new project, STARSPHERE, alongside artists and creators Hiroshi Sugimoto, Vik Muniz, Yukimasa Ida, and Mago Nagazaka. STARSPHERE is described as ‘a project to bring space closer to everyone and join together to acquire ”Space perspectives”. The “space perspectives” that are so integral to the STARSPHERE project mean not just the physical perspectives of viewing things from space, but also the intellectual and emotional perspectives of perceiving and contemplating thigs through space. Individuals and various communities will be connected to space through a satellite that anyone can freely operate and use to take pictures. Enjoying and updating the things, ideas , and culture that surround us from “space perspectives” will enrich both our daily lives and the future of the Earth. This is a group project where the class consists of all approximately 8 billion people on Earth.

Future Library, Nobel Museum Talk, Stockholm, 2024

Talk: How to Think Like Hiroshi Sugimoto, December 2023

Hayward Gallery director Ralph Rugoff and a panel of experts discuss the inventive and inquisitive mind of Hiroshi Sugimoto. Joining him are artist Katie Paterson, curator Lena Fritsch and critic Ravi Ghosh. Together they explore the different and sometimes contrasting sides of Sugimoto’s work including his abiding commitment to the craft of film photography and fascination with the camera’s ability to manipulate our perception of time.

Mirage

Katie Paterson and Zeller & Moye have been commissioned by Apple to create a public permanent artwork at the Apple Campus in Cupertino, USA. This public sculpture for the olive grove adjacent to the Visitor Center at Apple Park, has been created from cylinders of pure cast glass, made of sand collected from deserts across the Earth. Sand from subtropical deserts, coastal, rain-shadow, interior, mountainous, volcanic and fossilized deserts were melted into glass. Over four-hundred cast glass columns combine every desert on Earth into a wave-like form, mimicking a desert dune. Visitors can interact with the artwork, walking alongside and through it, where the glass subtly melts into the landscape, like a desert mirage. The artwork is open to the public.

www.mirage.place

The Future Library silent room is now open!

Last year’s handover ceremony was a very special event, a milestone for a visionary project: not only the annual handover took place, but this year three acclaimed authors were part of the ceremony, which included the opening of the manuscripts’ resting place, the silent room in the new public library Deichman Bjørvika. The silent room will be home to all of the manuscripts contributed to the project until their eventual publication in the year 2114. The room is designed by artist Katie Paterson and architects Atelier Oslo and Lund Hagem.

www.futurelibrary.no

Sustainability Workshop, Norman Foster Foundation | October 10–14, 2022

While there is an imperative to ensure human survival in the face of climate change, learning from nature’s intricate systems is crucial to ensuring a good quality life for all living things. What if the boundary between humans and ecosystems didn’t exist? What if we could transform our waste into nutrients for other organisms? The Norman Foster Foundation presents a new session of its Sustainability Workshop. The Academic Body brings together a wide range of practitioners from different fields related to biointegrated and ecologic design. The Academic Body includes: Stefano Boeri, Founder and Director of Stefano Boeri Archiecti; Cristina Iglesias, Spanish Artist and Sculptor; Mitchell Joachim, Co-founder of Terreform ONE and Associate Professor of Practice at New York University; Mohsen Mostafavi, Alexander and Victoria Wiley Professor of Design and Distinguished Service Professor at Harvard University; Brenda Parker, Associate Professor of Sustainable Bioprocess Design at the Department of Biochemical Engineering of University College London; Claudia Pasquero, Co-founder of ecoLogicStudio in London, Landscape Architecture Professor at Innsbruck University and Associated Professor at the Bartlett School of Architecture; Katie Paterson, Scottish Artist; Marco Poletto, Co-founder of ecoLogicStudio in London; and architect, theorist and urban planner, Moshe Safdie.

Requiem, Katie Paterson at Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, UK, 9th April – 11th June, 2022.

An exhibition by Katie Paterson at Ingleby Gallery brought together dust gathered from material dating from pre-solar times to those of the present.

To Burn, Forest, Fire, new website

To Burn, Forest, Fire consists of the scent of the first-ever forest on earth and the scent of the last forest of the age of climate crisis, made into incense. It was burned across a variety of sites around the city of Helsinki in 2021, as IHME’s 2021 commission. Visit our new website to explore films, texts, and more.

www.to-burn-forest-fire.com

Endling, a new artwork by Katie Paterson is on show at Galleri Tschudi til March 2022.

Tsitsi Dangarembga’s next work won’t be read by anyone until 2114, The Guardian

The Zimbabwean writer joins authors including Margaret Atwood and Ocean Vuong who have agreed to lock away new writing in the Future Library.

Katie Paterson nominated by Margaret Atwood as ’12 Women Who Are Shaping Our Future’

Artist Katie Paterson raises money for domestic abuse victims at risk during coronavirus outbreak

For a charitable donation, the Scottish visual artist is selling 1,000 digital copies of one of her books based on the universe. 

Katie Paterson, Monograph

This first comprehensive overview covering the work of Katie Paterson is hardback, 256 pages, 289 colour illustrations with a foreword by Nicolas Bourriaud and essays by Mary Jane Jacob, Lisa Le Feuvre and Lars Bang Larsen. The artworks in this book have been ordered as a ‘time telescope’, by duration – seconds, minutes, hours, years and light years.