GLACIERS AND ME
- May 6
- 3 min read
Exhibition in the archeoParc Schnals 12.04 - 02.11.2025
Artists Jessie Pitt, Daniela Brugger and Georg Kaser
International Year of Glaciers' Preservation
'The United Nations declared 2025 as the International Year of Glaciers' Preservation, accompanied by the proclamation of the 21st March of each year as the World Day for Glaciers starting in 2025. This is an opportunity to raise global awareness about the critical role of glaciers, snow and ice in the climate system and the hydrological cycle, and the economic, social and environmental impacts of the impending changes in the Earth’s cryosphere.'
DANIELA BRUGGER
The beauty of the shapes and structures of glaciers has long fascinated Daniela Brugger. The photographer lives and works in the village of Certosa, where she is also active in the local Schnals cultural association and, among other things, organizes the biennial art exhibition "Art in the Charterhouse."
With the aesthetics presented by glaciers in their disappearance, she aims to suggest the connection between the disappearance of glaciers as a drastic testament to climate change and human activity in general as the cause. The exhibition at archeoParc will feature images from her series "Glacier Threads" and "Glaciers are melting 0.32m." "Dying glaciers resemble the furrowed faces of very old people. It is challenging to portray them in their dignity," is how Daniela Brugger described her work behind the camera in an interview with the Südtiroler Tageszeitung.
"Glacier Threads" or "Glacier Nets" comprises mixed media works. Daniela Brugger sews thread onto her photographs of the glaciers in the mountains of her childhood. She uses the sewing thread to mark its past extent. The series "0.32" refers to a figure from glacier and climate research: If all glaciers outside the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets were to melt, global sea levels would rise by 0.32 meters. Incidentally, a work from the "o.32" series has made her one of the winners of the 2024 European Photography Award. - Text/ archeoParc Schals 2025
JESSIE PITT
For Jessie Pitt, glaciers, mountains, and nature in general are inspiration for her art. After studying art in Melbourne, the freelance artist and ski guide commuted between Australia and Austria for years before settling in the mountains.
Several of her works address the theme of connection, "the connection between the self and the mountains, and increasingly the connection between the earth and humanity. Everything is connected. The earth and everything that lives here," says Jessie Pitt.
In her series "Glacier," Jessie Pitt observes and documents the Ötztal glaciers. She paints her glacial landscapes using a mixed technique of ink, graphite, acrylic, and charcoal on canvas. The images depict moments that, by the time the painting is completed, are already part of the past. Jessie Pitt's works in the archeoParc exhibition "Glaciers and Me" are from this series.
GEORG KASER
Georg Kaser was and is professionally involved in glacier and climate research. He researched and taught at the University of Innsbruck and is now a member emeritus of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna.
For "Glaciers and Me," Georg Kaser has distilled current data into short, understandable sentences that fit seamlessly between and complement the artwork of Jessie Pitt and Daniela Brugger. Text/archeoParc Schals
Glaciers and Me is running until November the 2nd 2025
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