How might stem cells and stem cell medicine shape our lives? This double exhibition across Medicinsk Museion and Politiken’s Forhal explores the question through art, historical objects, and stem cell research.
Biological shapeshifters
Stem cells are biological shapeshifters: They can copy themselves and transform into many different cells. Stem cells live inside all of us and play a crucial role in our development from fertilised egg to adult, and in the maintenance and repair of our bodies throughout life. Through new stem cell technologies, researchers can grow, manipulate, and even reprogram human cells in ways that once belonged to the realms of imagination. The exhibition invites visitors to reflect on the opportunities and dilemmas of stem cell research: what is possible, where the boundaries lie, and who decides.
Stem cells are biological shapeshifters: They can copy themselves and transform into many different cells. Stem cells live inside all of us and play a crucial role in our development from fertilised egg to adult, and in the maintenance and repair of our bodies throughout life. Through new stem cell technologies, researchers can grow, manipulate, and even reprogram human cells in ways that once belonged to the realms of imagination. The exhibition invites visitors to reflect on the opportunities and dilemmas of stem cell research: what is possible, where the boundaries lie, and who decides.
New artworks
In Liquid Bodies, new artworks by Charlotte Jarvis, Jens Settergren, Davide Hjort di Fabio, and Cecilie Waagner Falkenstrøm meets historical objects from the collection of Medical Museion. All new works emerge from close dialogue with social scientists and stem cell researchers. Using materials ranging from aluminium and mosaic to digital media and the artist’s own cells, the artworks investigate the stuff of the body: shaped by hope as well as technology, entangled with our identities.
In Liquid Bodies, new artworks by Charlotte Jarvis, Jens Settergren, Davide Hjort di Fabio, and Cecilie Waagner Falkenstrøm meets historical objects from the collection of Medical Museion. All new works emerge from close dialogue with social scientists and stem cell researchers. Using materials ranging from aluminium and mosaic to digital media and the artist’s own cells, the artworks investigate the stuff of the body: shaped by hope as well as technology, entangled with our identities.
This exhibition is part of the international project Hope Springs Eternal, anchored in reNEW’s social science research group (PREPARE) at the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Stem Cell Medicine, reNEW.
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Politikens Forhal
Politikens Forhal
