UPSTREAM
ALGAE

is a participatory art project that invites people to engage with algae as living knowledge carriers.

Bridging art and science, the project explores algae not as resources or nuisances, but as co-actors and mentors—opening space for sensory, symbolic, and material encounters.

Together with scientists and local communities, Upstream Algae investigates how algae can shape new narratives about coexistence, adaptation, and ecological intimacy. What can we learn from their biology, resilience, and role in our common planetary systems?

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We are :

• Carolin Seeliger
• Daniel Kupferberg
• Kathrin Köster

JOINT CVJanuary 9 2026, 18-21h
Aperó at Axel Obiger Gallery, BerlinMarch-April 2025
Havmøllen artist residency in Ebeltoft (DK), AlgaeLAB with the local communitySeptember 2023
Slippery Slope
Algae text intervention, as part of the
Watermark Festival in Prieros (DE) -
Algae-based colours created a poetic web of recipes, poetry, and commercial slogans.Fall of 2023
shortlisted for the EMB artist residency of the European Marine BoardFall of 2022
2nd place of Hackathon of the
Ocean Future Lab
Cooperation partners:
German Oceanographic Museum/Stralsund, the German Maritime Museum/Bremerhaven, The Institute for Art and Innovation and the German Alliance for Marine Research
Presented during the Entrepreneur Summit at the Free University, Berlin, February 2023