Gallery
Five Fathoms Deep coral frieze from the Baden Baden Satellite Reef, at Museum Frieder Burda (Germany, 2022)
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Tatted lace doilie by Getrude Krichau Anderson, commissioned by the IFF as part of the Fohr Satellite Reef.
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Coral Forest – Helsinki, crocheted from recycled plastic. A collaboration between Christine and Margaret Wertheim and the Helsinki Satellite Reefers, hosted by Helsink Art Museum and Helsinki Biennial 2021.
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Pod World – Hyperbolic, at the 2019 Venice Biennale. Crochet pieces by Christine Wertheim, Margaret Wertheim, Anitra Menning and Heather McCarren.
Photo courtesy La Biennale di Venezia, by Italo Rondinella.
Pod Worlds and Gold Reef at Schlossmuseum Linz, (Austria, 2024)
Photo courtesy Schlossmuseum Linz, by Michael Maritsch
Pod Worlds, at Museum Frieder Burda (Germany, 2022).
Photo by Richard Neilsen
Bleached Reef – detail, at the 2019 Venice Biennale.
Photo courtesy La Biennale di Venezia, by Italo Rondinella.
Pod World – Plastic Fantastic at the 2019 Venice Biennale. Pieces crocheted by Christine Wertheim and Kathleen Greco, resting on a bed of “plastic sand” gathered from Kamilo Beach, Hawaii by Captain Charles Moore, discoverer of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
Photo courtesy La Biennale di Venezia, by Italo Rondinella.
Baden Baden Satellite Reef at Musee Cantonal des Beaux Arts (Lausanne, Switzerland, 2024)
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Baden Baden Satellite Reef at Musee Cantonal des Beaux Arts (Lausanne, Switzerland, 2024)
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Baden Baden Satellite Reef (detail) at Musee Cantonal des Beaux Arts (Lausanne, Switzerland, 2024)
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Austrian Frieze 2 and Steel City Reef at Schlossmuseum Linz (Austria, 2024)
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Austrian Frieze 2 (detail) at Schlossmuseum Linz (Austria, 2024)
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Austrian Frieze at Schlossmuseum Linz (Austria, 2024)
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Pod Worlds and Austrian Frieze at Schlossmuseum Linz (Austria, 2024)
Photo courtesy Schlossmuseum Linz by Michael Maritsch
Beaded Jellyfish by Vonda N. McIntyre, at Science Gallery, Dublin.
Photo © Institute For Figuring
Bleached Reef, at the Museum of Arts and Design (NYC).
Photo by Jenna Bascom for MAD.
Traditional lace doilies and plastic hyperbolic doilies, with 3D printed hyperbolic model by David Bachman.
Photo © Institute For Figuring
Five Fathoms Deep coral frieze from the Baden Baden Satellite Reef, with Romina Stahl.
Photo © Institute For Figuring.
Coral Forest – Stheno, at Museum of Arts and Design (NYC). Work from the collection of Jorian Polis Schutz.
Photo by Jenna Bascom for MAD.
Coral Forest – Medusa at Lehigh University Art Galleries.
Photo by Stephanie Veto for LUAG.
Pod Worlds at Museum of Art and Design (NYC).
Photo by Jenna Bascom for MAD.
Pod World – Plastic Fantastic, featuring corals crocheted around found plastic water bottles by Nadia Severns, at Mary Porter Sesnon Gallery, University of California Santa Cruz.
Photo courtesy Institute for the Arts and Sciences, UCSC.
Mathematics Blackboard, at the 2019 Venice Biennale.
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Early crochet corals by Margaret and Christine Wertheim.
Photo © Institute For Figuring by Alyssa Gorelick.