{"id":31876,"date":"2023-09-29T12:01:36","date_gmt":"2023-09-29T10:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.nobelprizemuseum.se\/?p=31876"},"modified":"2024-09-30T16:29:03","modified_gmt":"2024-09-30T14:29:03","slug":"new-exhibition-dives-into-the-world-of-fungi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.nobelprizemuseum.se\/en\/new-exhibition-dives-into-the-world-of-fungi\/","title":{"rendered":"New exhibition dives into the world of fungi"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"school_subject":[],"school_grade":[],"class_list":["post-31876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press"],"acf":{"ingress":"Throughout history, humans have been fascinated by fungi. They are all around us and inside us, but they often remain invisible. A new exhibition opening tomorrow at the Nobel Prize Museum in Stockholm showcases how both art and science explore fungi. The exhibition, entitled Fungi \u2013 In Art and Science, juxtaposes design objects, works of art, fashion and current scientific research.","info":[{"title":"Press release ","link":""},{"title":"29 September 2023","link":""}],"post_block":[{"acf_fc_layout":"text_content","text_block":"
\u201cThere is a great deal of contemporary interest in fungi,\u201d says Erika Lanner, Director of the Nobel Prize Museum. \u201cBy creating a thought-provoking encounter between art and science, we are continuing to work with an approach that also provided the basis for our acclaimed Life Eternal<\/em> exhibition at Liljevalchs art gallery in Stockholm last autumn.\u201d<\/p>\n Carsten H\u00f6ller\u2019s sculptures of fly agarics are be placed next to Anna Dumitriu & Alex May\u2019s artistic manipulations of yeast. Visitors can experience the monumental video installation Sanctuary of the Unseen Forest<\/em> by Marshmallow Laser Feast next to illustrator Joanna Hellgren\u2019s newly created comics. And Daniel Del Core\u2019s mushroom-themed dress, created for Icelandic musical artist Bj\u00f6rk, occupies its own display case.<\/p>\n In recent decades, research has provided us with new knowledge about fungi and the role of these organisms in nature \u2013 but also about potential ways of using their characteristics in everything from the development of new pharmaceuticals to building materials or clothing.<\/p>\n \u201cDuring our work, it has become clear how new insights have also created new questions \u2013 the world of fungi is still full of mysteries that remain for science to solve,\u201d says Karl-Johan Cottman, curator of the exhibition.<\/p>\n Visitors can also enter Nobel Prize laureate Olga Tokarczuk\u2019s literary world, which is teeming with mushrooms. In her book House of Day, House of Night<\/em>, she states: \u201cIf I wasn\u2019t a human being, I would like to be a mushroom.\u201d They can gain new insights into medicine laureate Alexander Fleming\u2019s working methods. During the 1920s, he discovered that some bacteria stopped growing when they came into contact with a particular mould (a form of fungus). This discovery later led to the development of penicillin.<\/p>\n