Announcing Remember Nature – A nationwide day of artist-led action to stand up for nature

 

 

 

 

Remember Nature 2025 is an ambitious new staging of the visionary art project initiated in 2015 by the celebrated artist Gustav Metzger (1926-2017), and curated by Andrea Gregson and Jo Joelson with Serpentine.

Remember Nature 2025 marks the 10-year anniversary in partnership with 15 regional arts partners across England, culminating in a nationwide Day of Action on 4 November 2025.

Remember Nature 2025 will bring people together through a programme of cultural and artistic public interventions, to ‘remember nature’ and act collectively to face the climate and nature crisis.

Co-curators Gregson and Joelson are leading the project with 15 collaborating arts organisations who will each nominate a lead artist. The artists will be commissioned to coordinate the Day of Action, engaging the public through place-specific art that can offer a compelling and empowering way to focus on protecting nature and our planet in an ecologically destructive era.

The partner organisations are:

Art Gene (Barrow-in-Furness), Baltic Contemporary (Gateshead), Castlefield Gallery (Manchester), De La Warr Pavilion (Bexhill-on-Sea), FACT (Liverpool), Hauser & Wirth (Somerset), Ikon (Birmingham), KARST (Plymouth), Kestle Barton and CAST (Cornwall), Kettles Yard (Cambridge), MIMA (Middlesborough), Serpentine Galleries (London), Tate Modern (London) and Turner Contemporary (Margate).

Remember Nature 2025 builds upon the initial Remember Nature in 2015 and Metzger’s call to action, which urged arts professionals and students from all disciplines “to make a stand against the ongoing erasure of species” and create new work to ‘remember nature’.

From coast to coast, city to town, contemporary arts organisations, artists, makers, and wider members of communities will develop artistic and public interventions in cultural venues and outdoor spaces, taking inspiration from Metzger’s works, manifestos and DIY aesthetic, to communicate why we need to ‘remember nature’ to ask wider audiences and members of the public to stop, pause in their daily routine, to slow down and think about the importance of nature and thus call to them to act and to adapt to the climate crisis.

The artistic acts and interventions on the Day of Action will be live streamed, recorded and shared via a new project website: https://remembernature.art/

The commissioned artists and community collaborations will be announced this summer.

Remember Nature 2025 is supported by Arts Council England, Teiger Foundation, Hauser & Wirth, University for the Creative Arts at Farnham, Gustav Metzger Foundation and the project partners.

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