Artists Space

Andrea Blum: BIOTA

Book Launch
April 29, 2025, 6pm

Please join us for a special evening celebrating the launch of BIOTA: A discourse between Art and Architecture from the 1970s to the present, co-published by Gregory R. Miller & Co. and Hunter College Art Galleries. BIOTA celebrates the work of artist and Hunter professor emerita Andrea Blum and accompanies her recent exhibition at 205 Hudson Gallery this past Fall. Books will be available for purchase at the event.

Book cover featuring a grainy close-up image of a flower. Black text across the center of the cover reads "biota."
Cover of BIOTA: A discourse between Art and Architecture from the 1970s to the present, co-published by Gregory R. Miller & Co. and Hunter College Art Galleries, 2025. [Book cover featuring a grainy close-up image of a flower. Black text across the center of the cover reads "biota."]

BIOTA gives an overview of Andrea Blum's early sculpture, public works, exhibitions, installations, and propositions of the past forty years, while staying within the rubric of what sculpture can be. The 296-page book, designed by Joseph Logan Design Studio, includes essays by Catherine Grout, Jenny Jaskey, Pam Lins, Michael Lobel, Sarah Oppenheimer, and a conversation between the artist and Allan Schwartzman, that explore the artist's practice and art-making philosophy.

The work of Andrea Blum falls between sculpture, architecture and design, exploring the relationship of the sociopolitical world to the private psychological one. Since the 1980’s she has built permanent and temporary projects in Europe and the United States, and has exhibited in museums, galleries and other exhibition venues. Blum has had one-person exhibitions at La Conservera Centro de Arte Contemporaneo, SP; Stroom Center for Art & Architecture, NL; Henry Moore Institute, UK; and Kunsthaus Baselland,CH, and has made special projects for the 51st Venice Biennale; Maison Rouge, Paris; MUDAM, Luxembourg; l’Observatoire, Marseille, and the Theatre des Champs-Elysees in Paris, where she was the set designer for the Opera, La Favorite by Donizetti. Blum is the recipient of Fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Graham Foundation, Art Matters Inc., the New York Foundation for the Arts, the SJWeiler Fund, the National Endowment for the Arts, and was named Chevalier, Order of Arts and Letters, by the French Minister of Culture. She is a Full Professor of Combined Media and Associate Chair of Studio, in the Department of Art & Art History at Hunter College in New York, and frequently lectures on the relationship of Art and Architecture and the social interface between the two.