art/natursci
artist + activist + Founder
Artist mp Warming is founder of the Art/NaturSci Movement and Art Science Exhibits Berlin. Her environmental art and nature science exhibitions now travel Europe and the Americas.
Her socially engaged, activist art projects revolve around themes of ecosystem regeneration. The exhibitions she curates feature work by artists worldwide and include art she creates with Evolutionary Biologists.(Left is a print she created with Dr. Alex Jordan of Max Planck, which includes his underwater phone tracking app).
mp’s art has been exhibited at two Venice Biennales and the well known WATOU Festival in Belgium. She has drawn in the collection rooms of the American Museum of Natural History, the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology, the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, and Yale's Peabody Museum of Natural History. Her art is in permanent collections at the Nabokov Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia and Foster + Partners’ Library at the Freie Universität Berlin.
Precious cargo biodiversity expedition happening now!
voyage to colombia!
mp Warming partners with Captain Cornelius Bockermann for zero carbon transport.
The performative-activist art of traveling exhibitions by wind considers Earth’s recovery from many aspects, especially the CO2 output of shipping art internationally.
Environmental Art & Nature Science sets sail, once again, on the incomparable AVONTUUR - from Hamburg, Germany August 2024.
We arrive at port of call in Santa Marta, Colombia - returning to Hamburg for exhibits on both continents.
scientific illustration
Avian specimens
Working alongside Evolutionary Biologists, mp creates scientific illustrations for her prints in the collection rooms of Museums of Natural History. These few avian specimens are from the Burke Museum at the University of Washington, the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, and Yale's Peabody Museum of Natural History.
Bird Architecture project with Ornithologist Richard Plum, Yale.
Hymenoptera project with Michael Ohl, Naturkundemuseum Berlin.
Ornithology project with Dr. Alejandro Rico-Guevara, Burke Museum. Talons of Eagle specimen recovered from Exxon-Valdez oil spill.
painting cuttlefish
This painting is part of a project inspired by interactions with the Jordan Lab at Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior at STARESO Research Station for Marine & Oceanographics in Corsica, 2019.
It was created with cuttlefish ink in one minute's time while mp hosted the Art/NaturSci Pavilion at the 2019 Venice Biennale. Approximately 200,000 tons of the delicate Sepia officinalis (cuttlefish) are fished yearly.
This painting has been enlarged to 1.20 meters/47 inches in length with high resolution and printed on Hahnemühle Paper in the archival Gilclee method for a limited edition of three.
Each print is currently priced at €30,000.