From July 24 to Aug. 31, 2025, the Scuderie di Palazzo Moroni will host environmental artist Ida Harm’s art exhibition “Humus Sapiens: wunderkammer of stones, animals and seeds“, which brings together a collection of her most recent works in continuous dialogue and listening with natural matter.
Harm, known to the public in Padua for her pictorial works dedicated to trees and forests (already exhibited at the San Gaetano Center in 2017), has been weaving her works of philosophical suggestions, botanical discoveries, and scientific data for more than two decades. Thus he embroiders a very personal art that becomes an interpreter of nature. Through the dimension of wonder, the weave connects human beings and natural ecosystems, skillfully distilling them into archetypal and symbolic aspects. Hers is an exploration of the aspects that unite Sapiens with non-human beings in the three natural kingdoms.
Ida Harm plays with visual and linguistic associations, plant textures, animal footprints, intra-species hybrids. She resorts to environmental metaphors to lay the groundwork for the Simbiocene, an era marked by a renewed respect between human and nonhuman subjects, as theorized by Glenn Albrecht. The studies underlying the artist’s research branch out between science and philosophy, passing through readings by botanists and environmentalists, human evolution theorists and activists, nature poets and literati, forming the outline on which the artist sets up her own peculiar identity and a fertile background on which everyone can cultivate their own ecological consciousness.
The texts accompanying the exhibition, which Harm herself has drafted, are full of curiosities and aim to accompany visitors (even the youngest) along the ideational and creative path of the works, suggesting food for thought, changes in perspective or readings underlying the works. A path that is also educational as well as ethical and aesthetic.
The exhibition is organized in collaboration with the Department of Culture of Padua.
Vernissage with the artist on Thursday, July 24 at 6 p.m.
Information:
Ex Scuderie di Palazzo Moroni, via del Municipio, 1 – Padua
July 24 through August 31, 2025
Hours: Tuesday through Sunday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 4:30 to 7:30 p.m.
Free admission
