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Solo exhibition Materia Medica at the Uzbekistan Contemporary Art Museum (CAMUZ) extended until 2nd September 2026
This site-specific new solo exhibition “Materia Medica” created specifically for the Uzbekistan Contemporary Art Museum (CAMUZ) stems from “Unravelling the Silk Road” a pioneering Anglo-Uzbek collaboration between Anna Dumitriu and the museum’s director and curator Shirin Tashova and is supported through the British Council’s Connections through Culture programme.
The project explores rich medical history and current healthcare and environmental challenges and innovations in both Uzbekistan and the UK, bridging historical narratives around figures like Avicenna (who completed a significant medical encyclopaedia “The Canon of Medicine” in the year 1025 and was born in what is now Uzbekistan) and contemporary issues such as the ongoing stigma of tuberculosis, soil health, and the environment. Artworks in the exhibition incorporate a range of media including 3D printed forms, natural dyes, anatomical wax, recycled medical waste, salt and plants. The exhibition is held in Urgench, close to the historical site of Khiva from 3rd April 2026 until 2nd September 2026.
Materia Medica Necklace on show at Phoenix Art Space in Brighton, UK
The Materia Medica Necklace is also on show as part of “Beyond the Studio” at Phoenix Art Space, Brighton (UK) from 11th July until 13th September 2026.
BioArchaeology of Yeast in Ferment at Galerie Neukölln, Berlin, Germany
BioArchaeology of Yeast is part of “Ferment” at the Galerie Neukölln, Berlin, Germany which runs from 22nd May to 22nd August 2026.
ArchaeaBot: A Post Singularity A Post Climate Change Life-form will be part of “Shimmer: Artists Dream a Posthuman World” at the Frist Art Museum in Nashville, USA
“ArchaeaBot: A Post Climate Change, Post Singularity Life-form” will be part of “Shimmer: Artists Dream a Posthuman World” at the Frist Art Museum in Nashville, USA, opening in September 2026.
“ArchaeaBot: A Post Climate Change, Post Singularity Life-form” (2018-19) is an underwater robotic installation by Anna Dumitriu and Alex May that explores what ‘life’ might mean in a post-singularity and post-climate change future. Based on new research on archaea (a group of unicellular micro-organisms believed to be the oldest form of life on earth adapted to life in extreme conditions) combined with the latest innovations in artificial intelligence and machine learning, the artists have tried to create the ‘ultimate’ species for the end of the world. A version of ArchaeaBot was acquired by ZKM for their collection in 2023.
“ArchaeaBot” premiered as part of “Error in Progress” at the Ars Electronica Festival in 2018 and has subsequently toured to; LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial in Gijón, Spain; Rencontres Bandits-Mages “Unstable Reality and Shifting Knowledge: Mending the Fabric of the World” in Bourges, France; IMPAKT in Utrecht, Netherlands as part of “A World Without Us”; Kunstmuseum Moritzburg for the Silbersalz Festival in Halle, Germany; the 18th WRO Media Art Biennale in Wroclaw, Poland; HeK in Basel, Switzerland in “Entangled Realities – Living with Artificial Intelligence”; Furtherfield in London, UK as part of “Time Portals”; “On/Off” at the Museum of Ethnography in Lviv, Ukraine; “Oceans 4.0” at FACT in Liverpool, UK; “Submerge” at the Science Gallery Bengaluru, India; Survival of the Fittest at Kunstpalais Erlangen, Germany; “Quarantine” as part of the Ars Electronica 2020: Adriatic Garden, curated by Kontejner as part of their EMAP Programme and at Art Workshop Lazareti Dubrovnik, Croatia; and in EFECT DE LA MICRO LA MACRO in the QUANTUM QUESTIONS 2020 Festival by Centrul Cultural Clujean in Cluj-Napoca, Romania; ALIFE 2021 Conference (online); EMAP Ars Electronica Garden (online); Under the Viral Shadow, Art Laboratory Berlin, Germany, Supernatural at Oulu Museum of Art, Finland, and Such Stuff as Worlds are Made on at Spazju Kreattiv in Valetta, Malta, BIOMEDIA at the Le Centre Des Arts Enghien-les-Bains, 23rd Triennale Milano International Exhibition, Milan, Italy, Synthetic Ecology – The Beijing Art and Technology Biennale at CUBE Art Center in the 798 Art Zone in Beijing, China, Supernatural: Sculptural Visions of the Body at Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan, Topologies of the Real: Techne Shenzhen” at the Museum of Contemporary Art and Urban Planning (MOCAUP), Shenzhen, China, the Le Musée de la Main, Lausanne, Switzerland, Bastion 2 as part of BioArt Revolution for Timisoara 2023 European Capital of Culture, Romania, “AI: Artificial Intelligence” at CCCB (Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona), Barcelona, Spain, 2023-2024, “Topologies of the Real: Techne” at Meixihu Contemporary Art Museum, Changsha City, Hunan Province, China, AI: More Than Human at the Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science, 1101 Biscayne Blvd, Miami, FL 33132, United States, and was most recently exhibited in Of the Earth: Earthly Technologies to Computational Biologies at Diriyah Art Futures in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Manna: Epigenetics and Intergenerational Trauma premieres at the Science Gallery Bengaluru, India
Manna: Epigenetics and Intergenerational Trauma premieres as part of the programme for the exhibition Calorie at the Science Gallery Bengaluru in India on 9th August 2025. Calorie continues until 2026. Prior to the exhibition Anna Dumitriu led an in person workshop and gave a talk at the gallery. The artwork explores the epigenetic impact of violence, conflict and famine with a focus on intergenerational trauma, and food as a form of comfort during times of conflict, in the context of “postmemory”.
“Manna: Epigenetics, Conflict and Intergenerational Trauma” takes the form of an urgent artistic research exploration of the epigenetic impact of violence, conflict and famine with a focus on intergenerational trauma. The team comprising Anna Dumitriu, and Professor of War and Society, Rachel Kerr, and curator Cécile Bourne-Farrell from the Department of War Studies at Kings College London and Professor Maria-Elena Torres-Padilla from the Institute of Epigenetics and Stem Cells at the Helmholtz Zentrum in Munich. are inspired by research into what is known as the Dutch Hunger Winter cohort. The Dutch Hunger Winter was a famine brought about by the Nazi’s who blockaded food supplies in the Netherlands in 1944 as a punishment for railway workers strikes aimed at preventing the movement of Nazi troops. It has been shown that the children of women pregnant during the famine have higher levels of obesity and diabetes, and a have a higher mortality rate. It has been shown that certain genes have been silenced in these children’s DNA potentially affecting their metabolisms. How many children being born now in Ukraine or Gaza will be damaged in this way? Professor Maria Elena Torres-Padilla, Head of the Institute of Epigenetics and Stem Cells at the Helmholtz Zentrum in Munich, Germany is the project’s scientific advisor, and this work builds on learning from their “Mutability of Memories and Fates” project. The project initially received seed funding from Kings College London’s Sanctuary Season.
Residency at the Institute for Biology in Bucharest, Romania
Anna Dumitriu is undertaking a new residency at the Institute of Biology in Bucharest in Romania in 2026 focussed on the scientific study of medicinal plants, with a focus on Smoke Tree and Edelweiss. She is working with scientific collaborator is Dr Alexandra-Gabriela Ciocan and the residency is supported and curated by Marginal under the framework of their 2026 Otherwise Residency Programme. There will be an exhibition of the project outcomes at Atelier 35 in Bucharest from 14th – 30th October 2026.
Black Rock Beachcombers
Black Rock Beachcombers are three innovative public sculptures created for the new boardwalk at Black Rock on the city of Brighton’s eastern seafront on the south coast of Britain. Combining 3D photogrammetry scanning and 3D modelling these permanently installed 3D printed digital collages reveal hidden stories about the nature, the people and the engineering of this historic and important coastal location. Commissioned by Brighton & Hove City Council as part of the Black Rock Rejuvenation Project, the works were made following discussions with residents and stakeholders and all the elements are very meaningful to the city. The sculptures are designed by Brighton-based, internationally renowned artists Anna Dumitriu and Alex May.
INVISIBLES: La Vie cachée des Microbes Exhibition at the Musee De La Main in Lausanne
“Ex Voto”, “Fragile Microbiome”, “Microbe Mouth”, “Super-organism: The Living Microbiome”, “Fermenting Futures”, and “The BioArchaeology of Yeast” is now on show as part of “INVISIBLES. La vie cachée des microbes” at the Musee De La Main in Lausanne, Switzerland until August 2026.
The exhibition explores a fascinating and little-known world, that of the microorganisms that surround us. Omnipresent, but invisible, microbes form communities essential to the functioning of all ecosystems on our planet. From soils to oceans, including air, plants and even the human body: the exhibition invites you to discover this vast unknown land which will not fail to surprise you. The exhibition opened on 26th June 2024 and continues until 30th August 2026
Collaboration with VIB-KU Leuven Center For Neuroscience
“The Amyloid Necklace” has been created as part of part of a collaboration with VIB-KU Leuven Center for Neuroscience in Belgium exploring their research into how the brain ages and what diseases can affect the brain and the wider somatic system. The project was kicked off by a one week exploratory residency in August 2025 and a second production residency in June 2026.
The “Amyloid Necklace” premiered at FENS Forum 2026 in Barcelona on 8th July 2026 as part of an extremely popular event Art and Science: Creative Pathways for Science Communication. It tours to the Protein Aggregation Meeting, Leuven (Belgium) 9th -11th September 2026, the VIB-GC & UZGent Patient Day, Ghent (Belgium), 26th September 2026, 8th October 2026, and the Vesalius Museum, Leuven (Belgium), 1st – 8th August 2027 as part of the World Transplant Games.
“The Mutability of Memories and Fates”on exhibition at Muffetwerk in Munich (Germany) and recent solo exhibition at Alte Saline, Hallein (Austria)
The recent solo exhibition “The Mutability of Memories and Fates” brought together all the works from the series of the same name, including new never before presented works, for the first time at Alte Saline in Hallein, Austria from 5th – 20th September 2024. The exhibition presented a series of artworks resulting from artistic research of epigenetics and stem cells. The artist, Anna Dumitriu, picks up the scientific expressions of “cell memories” and “cell fates, drawing connections between scientific uses and cultural or poetical meanings of these terms playing with notions of alchemical transformation and myth-making. There was an accompanying events programme. The exhibition was a collaboration with Schmeide, in cooperation with The Helmholtz Zentrum Munich and subnet, curated by Claudia Schnugg. These works were also part of “BioArt Transformations” at the Regency Town House in Brighton and Hove, UK and “In Formation” at Muffetwerk in Munich (Germany) a group exhibition curated by Claudia Schnugg and running from 5th – 8th July 2026.
“I love this project and I think it is extremely rich, multi-layered and an exceptional collaboration” (Claudia Schnugg)
Biomaterials Chandelier AR created through the EU S+T+ARTS Programme Better Factory Programme
Anna Dumitriu has developed a new body of artworks that explore how biomaterials and augmented reality can impact sustainability and the circular economy in the wine industry with the EU S+T+ARTS Better Factory programme. Her spectacular Biomaterials Chandelier AR (2024) is an intricate hand-made chandelier installation made using wine waste, specifically biotextiles made using spoilt wine and feccia (final grape pressing) kombucha SCOBY (symbiotic cultures of yeast and bacteria), and bio-plastics and bio-composites from wine waste (grape marc and vine clippings) – all from scratch.
The biomaterials have been cast into forms inspired by photogrammetry scans from the winery of project partners Marco Felluga (Italy), and recipes released open source. The chandelier triggers a generative augmented reality app #artandwineAR that gives every user a unique experience. It is accompanied by a sonification of fermentation data produced from IoT Smart Corks created by collaborating technology company BUBAMARA-V from Serbia. See more here. The opening ceremony of the exhibition of the project with the artist took place at Russiz Superiore Winery in Italy on 25th July 2024 and the work was part of “Behind the Design” at the GLUE Festival, Waag Futurelab, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 11am – 5pm, between 19th – 22nd September 2024.
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Collaboration Exploring the Uses of AI in Infection Prevention and Control
Anna Dumitriu and Alex May are collaborating with Dr James Price (Brighton and Sussex Medical School), Sid Mookerjee (University Hospitals Sussex) and Ashleigh Myall (NEX) to artistically explore novel new research which offers to improve infection prevention and control (IPC) in hospital settings using artificial intelligence. In the first stages of the project the artists are exploring how the AI infection prevention system works by applying it to a historic data set based on John Snow’s research on the 1854 Cholera outbreak in Broad Street, London, considered to be the first epidemiological study ever conducted. The artists are in the process of fabricating a far more detailed data set using AI tools, and simulations that bring the outbreak to life and will show us if modern AI could have helped stop the outbreak sooner, or even prevented it from ever happening. Other elements of the project explore how to engage audiences in understanding the meaning and implications of healthcare associated infection (HCAI). Work in progress was exhibited as part of FIS2024 in Liverpool, where the artists were be in conversation with Dr James Price, and in the Kleinplastik Triennale in Fellbach, Germany, and in “BioArt Transformations” at the Regency Town House Basement in Brighton, UK.
Supported by Brighton and Sussex Medical School and University of Sussex Higher Education Innovation Funds (HEIF), supporting a wider program of work in Sussex on translational clinical research in IPC through collaborations with academia, clinical, industry and patients/public.
Anna Dumitriu Appointed Artist in Residence at Leeds Biomedical Research Centre
In an exciting development bridging science, art, and public engagement, internationally acclaimed BioArtist Anna Dumitriu has been appointed as Leeds Biomedical Research Centre Artist in Residence for the 2023–2028 funding cycle. Anna will leverage her background in BioArt to bring unique insights to research themes, including Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) and Infection, led by Dr Jane Freeman. Dr Freeman, Deputy Theme Lead for AMR and Infection, has collaborated with Anna on numerous occasions, including the recent successful exhibition “Fragile Microbiomes” at the Thackray Medical Museum. The show garnered attention for its thought-provoking exploration of microbial ecosystems and their impacts on health, showcasing how art can serve as a compelling medium for complex scientific ideas.
The success of the AMR and Infection collaboration has set the stage for further interdisciplinary innovation across the centre’s other research themes. Anna’s work with Leeds BRC underscores the growing value of artistic partnerships in healthcare research—especially as more funding bodies prioritise creative outreach and dissemination strategies. By fostering engagement beyond traditional academic audiences, Anna’s residency will encourage new perspectives and a broader public understanding of pressing healthcare challenges.
Infusoria – A Collaboration with Oxford University Exploring One Health and Antimicrobial Resistance
Researchers from Modernising Medical Microbiology (MMM) at the University of Oxford are collaborating with Anna Dumitriu, to develop a high impact, ground-breaking new body of artworks entitled Infusoria exploring the nested microbial genetic and ecological systems that influence and entangle human, animal, and climate health through antimicrobial resistance (AMR) via a “One Health” perspective. The project has resulted in an engaging new body of artworks that communicate key themes in research around AMR, one of the most significant but complex and misunderstood threats to humanity. The project explores how issues like climate change, rain and wastewater management, food insecurity and conflict are all implicated in the drivers and impacts of AMR and how new technologies such as whole genome sequencing and microfluidics are used to identify and understand AMR. The project premiered in “BioArt Transformations” at the Regency Town House Basement in Brighton, UK and other elements of the project will be exhibited at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford between 26th September and 7th November 2026.
Anna Dumitriu Appointed Artist in Residence at the Wellcome Sanger Institute
Anna Dumitriu has been appointed artist in residence at the Wellcome Sanger Institute building on projects such as the Syphilis Dress and the Cholera Dress. She is currently developing new work around the evolution of antibiotic resistance in the human microbiome focussed on her Staphylococcus aureus.
Invisible You: The Human Microbiome as part of Invisible Worlds at Eden Project
The flagship exhibition Invisible You: The Human Microbiome is part of Invisible Worlds initiative at Eden Project in Cornwall, UK. Invisible Worlds is an ongoing major permanent exhibition that reveals the world beyond our senses introducing the interconnectedness between life and the Earth’s environments. The exhibition features Don’t Try This At Home (in collaboration with Dr Jane Freeman and Dr Caroline Chilton) and Super-organism: The Living Microbiome.
EU VOICE Project: Greening the Lab with Anna Dumitriu
The EU funded VOICE project used a new approach where artists take the lead in Art-Technology-Society Interactions (ATSIs), bringing communities together to solve environmental problems co-creatively. The first phase of the VOICE project was the pilot phase, where this approach was tested. Anna Dumitriu was one of six artists funded as part of the pilot phase to develop her project “Greening the Lab: Decarbonising Biomedical Science” which brought together communities of scientists, medics, healthcare workers, patients and the public to explore how biomedicine can be more sustainable. Her and her collaborators efforts in this direction continue.
“Greening the Lab: Decarbonising Biomedical Science” received funding from a Horizon Europe project called VOICE. Through artist-led interventions (ATSIs), VOICE encouraged citizen engagement to tackle local and regional environmental challenges effectively. To learn more about the VOICE community, visit the project website or social media channels (LinkedIn, Instagram).
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