Antonia Baehr
Antonia Baehr is a Berlin-based choreographer, performer, filmmaker and visual artist. Her pieces are characterised by a non-disciplinary working method, examining the fiction of the everyday and the fiction of the theatre. Animals often appear in her work.
For the project Abecedarium Bestiarium – Portraits of Affinities in Animal Metaphors, Antonia Baehr invited her friends to write short pieces for her, based on an ABC of extinct animals: D is for Dodo, T is for Tasmanian tiger, S is for Steller’s sea cow and so on. The authors chose an extinct animal that they felt strongly about. The series of etchings displayed at the exhibition is part of the book and performance. The etchings are by Antonia Baehr, Dodo Heidenreich, Nanna Heidenreich, Mirjam Junker, Itamar Lerner, Catriona Shaw, Ida Wilde and Steffi Weismann.
Dodo Heidenreich, D is for Dodo (Raphus cucullatus), 2012
Exhibited works:
Antonia Baehr, B is for Brown Atlas Bear (Ursus arctos crowtheri), 2013
Antonia Baehr, A is for Arnim (Farfelus malacus), 2013
Antonia Baehr, T is for Tasmanian Tiger (Thylacinus cynocephalus), 2012
Dodo Heidenreich, Antonia Baehr as a Bear, 2012
Dodo Heidenreich, D is for Dodo (Raphus cucullatus), 2012
Nanna Heidenreich, S is for Steller’s Sea Cow (Hydrodamalis gigas), 2012
Mirjam Junker, I is for Isle of Man purr (Sus scrofa), 2013
Itamar Lerner, M is for Martelli’s Cat (Felis lunensis), 2013
Catriona Shaw, Y is for Yangtze River Dolphin (Lipotes vexillifer), 2013
Steffi Weismann, N is for Northern Bubal Hartebeest (Alcelaphus buselaphus buselaphus), 2013
Ida Wilde, C is for Culebra Island Amazon of Puerto Rico (Amazona vittata gracilipes), 2012
Ida Wilde, W is for Wondiwoi Tree Kangaroo (Dendrolagus mayri), 2013
Courtesy Antonia Baehr