Shifting Weathers is an exhibition at Villa Heike Kunstverein that engages with weather, climate, and imaging technologies. While climate is made visible in public discourse through technical images, measurements, and forecasts, it is simultaneously effective through slow processes that escape our immediate perception. The exhibition project understands weather as a continuous condition that shapes perception, sensation, and temporality.

Featuring works by Susanne Kriemann, Jasmijn Visser (in collaboration with Ingmar König), and Luiz Zanotello, it directs attention to the complex conditions underlying the mediation and interpretation of weather and climate. Above all, the exhibition demonstrates how artistic practices beyond catastrophe imagery open up new perspectives on the multilayered nature of climate.

In her work Datadust skin of sand, Susanne Kriemann considers landscapes as material archives of human traces. She shows how microplastics have become an integrated component of ecological cycles, dispersed and sedimented over time through weathering processes. Kriemann’s observations render climate visible as a determining factor in long-term processes of inscription.

In collaboration with game developer Ingmar König, Jasmijn Visser presents the interactive video game The weather has been cancelled, which envisions a world without weather. Within its fragmented, lyrical environment, where players can move freely, the complexity of climate change is mirrored: irreducible to a single narrative, yet deeply embedded in cultural memory and collective grief.

In his installation Tempo-imagem, Luiz Zanotello examines the interplay of time and weather through real-time images from publicly accessible weather cameras around the world. By training a machine with this visual data and rendering its processes visible on film, the work shifts attention to underrepresented regions and differing temporalities. Weather observation thus emerges as a political act of seeing.

Shifting Weathers is curated by Sarie Nijboer under the direction of Michael Schäfer. The exhibition is accompanied by a one-day symposium addressing questions of image production, climate knowledge, and the politics of perception.

The project is funded by the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion of the State of Berlin and the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

The new production of The weather has been cancelled by Jasmijn Visser in collaboration with Ingmar König is supported by the Mondriaan Fund. Tempo-imagem by Luiz Zanotello was realized within a residency of the European Media Art Platform in collaboration with Ricardo Vieira at gnration (Braga, Portugal), with support from the European Union’s “Creative Europe – Culture” programme.