Denise Ziegler
Biography
Denise Ziegler, DFA, is a Helsinki based visual artist and researcher of public space. In her artistic practice and research, she questions the concepts of urban space and public art. In a post-Beuysian vein, an artist workshop is extended to public space in order to work with its mechanisms and possibilities. Ziegler has made permanent and temporary works in and for public space, her practice includes assemblages, sculpture, drawings, paintings, videos, literary-visual works and writing. Ziegler is currently working as a university lecturer at Transdisciplinary Art Studies (TAITE) at the Department of Art and Media at Aalto University.
Denise Ziegler: Colour Fields, 2024. Part of the series of paintings (21 cm x 30 cm), flower heads on paper,
left: small purple flower, right: buttercup (Meddow behind the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin)
Photo: Denise Ziegler
Picking Flowers in the City
Symposium participation
Picking Flowers in the City is an attempt to capture public space in its complex agglomeration of things, colours, sounds, movements, situations, speculations, feelings and dreameries. I develop artistic research practices in order to work with the city – which means in this case to make spatial statements though the colours of urban wildflowers.
