The artist will present her work, and also her new book entitled Mouth of the Waterway about the role of photography in sewage systems. Based on her research into water infrastructure, she will also guide us through the paths that water takes as it flows through the PLATO building.

Alina Schmuch is the author of the current exhibition seeping in.

In the part of the program dedicated to a guided tour of the PLATO building, Alina Schmuch will be accompanied by Radim Tomašovský, the PLATO building manager.

Alina Schmuch is a German artist working with moving image and photography, exploring the relationship between visual media and reality through artistic publications and video installations. In recent years, Schmuch has focused intensively on the theme of water infrastructures as sites where technology, the body, and the environment intersect. She studied Media Art at HfG Karlsruhe and was a fellow at the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht. Her work has been presented in exhibitions and screenings including at Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Urbane Künste Ruhr, Akademie der Künste, Sonic Acts, Rupert, and at the 15th Venice Architecture Biennale in collaboration with the collective Forensic Architecture. She was part of the artistic research project Hydromedia, the residency programme Alterlife, and is currently a participant of BPA // Berlin Programme for Artists. Among other awards, she has received the Visual Arts work stipend of the Berlin Senate and the MAK Schindler Scholarship in Los Angeles.