Mirja Busch

Mirja Busch is an interdisciplinary artist from Berlin. She studied fine arts at the Braunschweig University of Art and at the Universidad de Chile in Chile. The examination of (urban) landscape as a social and artistic construct plays a central role in her work.

For over ten years, Mirja has been exploring the ontology of puddles and experimenting with various forms of archiving them - whether as a photographic collection, in liquid form, through ethnographic observations, walks or language - bringing this often overlooked phenomenon into focus in order to open up new, non-human perspectives on the city and the subject of water.

Her work has been funded by the Stiftung Kunstfonds (2023, 2022, 2020, 2015), the Berlin Senate (2016), Hans and Charlotte Krull Stiftung (2014), Goldrausch Programm Berlin (2011) and DAAD (2008), among others.

Oer-Erkenschwick

The Grand Snail Tour will be accompanied by literary, photographic and illustrative artists, who will collect impressions and reflections from the same city at the same time as the Trailer is there and put them into visual or literary form. The result is a paratext on the three-year tour, a travel chronicle in the form of a kaleidoscope of stories, connections and snapshots in the 53 cities of the region, revealing the simultaneities and non-simultaneities of the Grand Snail Tour.