Somerset House is the setting for SOIL: The World at Our Feet, a groundbreaking exhibition that brings together visionary artists and thinkers from around the globe to explore the immense power and potential of soil.
The exhibition invites visitors to reflect on soil’s essential role in sustaining the health of our planet, conveying a message of both urgency and hope. Through a variety of artworks, artifacts, and innovative approaches, it encourages a more sustainable, harmonious relationship with the Earth—if we choose to act now. At Somerset House, visitors are given the creative space to think deeply about soil’s vital role in sustaining life, both now and in the future, aiming to inspire awe and optimism in those willing to look beneath the surface of a world they thought they understood.
SOIL: The World at Our Feet, a groundbreaking exhibition that brings together visionary artists and thinkers from around the globe to explore the immense power and potential of soil.
The exhibition invites visitors to reflect on soil’s essential role in sustaining the health of our planet, conveying a message of both urgency and hope. Through a variety of artworks, artifacts, and innovative approaches, it encourages a more sustainable, harmonious relationship with the Earth—if we choose to act now. At Somerset House, visitors are given the creative space to think deeply about soil’s vital role in sustaining life, both now and in the future, aiming to inspire awe and optimism in those willing to look beneath the surface of a world they thought they understood.
Participating artists include
Agnieszka Kurant, Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg, Anya Gallaccio, Ana Mendieta, Annalee Davis, Asad Raza, Asunción Molinos Gordo, Christopher Bellamy, Bio Crafted, Clare Richardson, Cosmo Shelldrake, Daro Montag, Diana Scherer, Eve Tagny, Fatima Alaiwat, Fernando Laposse, France Bourély, Freddie Yauner, Harun Morrison & Paul Granjon, herman de vries, Howard Sooley, jackie sumell, Jim Richardson, Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, Jo Pearl, Johanna Tagada Hoffbeck, Joya Berrow, Julia Norton, Ken Griffiths, Kim Norton, Lauren Gault, Maeve Brennan, Marguerite Humeau, Mariana Heilmann and Lynne Boddy, Marshmallow Laser Feast, Michael Landy, Merlin Sheldrake, Michael Prime, Mike Perry, Miranda Whall, Sam Williams, Semantica (Jemma Foster and Camilla French) with Juan Cortés, Something & Son, Theo Panagopoulos, Tim Cockerill and Elze Hesse, Vivien Sansour, Wim van Egmond.
The exhibition is co-curated by The Land Gardeners: Henrietta Courtauld and Bridget Elworthy, curator and writer May Rosenthal Sloan and Claire Catterall, Senior Curator at Somerset House Trust.
SOIL: The World at Our Feet
Group Exhibition
23 January – 13 April 2025
Somerset House
About Somerset House
Somerset House is a neoclassical building and cultural hub in London that hosts a variety of events, exhibitions, and creative businesses.
As the home of cultural innovators, Somerset House connects creativity and the arts with wider society. It brings worlds and minds together to intensify creativity and multiply opportunity, driving artistic and social innovation at once.
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