Installation view Mine; 2019.
Photo by Jesse Hunniford/MONA.
Courtesy of the artist, Galerie Buchholz Berlin/Cologne/New York and Petzel Gallery.
Installation view Mine; 2019.
Photo by MONA/Jesse Hunniford.
Amazon Worker Cage Patent (US 9,280,157 B2: “System and method for transporting personnel within an active workspace”, 2016) with King Island Brown Thornbill renders; 2019; Screen print on paper: 76.9×59.4 cm.
Photo by MONA/Jesse Hunniford.
Joy Global semi-autonomous longwall coal mining 7LS8 shearer cardboard display; 2019; Aluminium booth frame construction, UV print on honeycomb cardboard, stainless steel cable, threaded rods and bolts, Aluminium poles, wood: 347×595×154cm.
Photo by MONA/Jesse Hunniford.
Installation view Mine; 2019.
Photo by MONA/Jesse Hunniford.
Installation view Mine; 2019.
Photo by MONA/Jesse Hunniford.
Installation view Mine; 2019.
Photos by Thomas Mueller.
Installation view Mine; 2019.
Photo by MONA/Jesse Hunniford.
Installation view Mine; 2019.
Photo by MONA/Jesse Hunniford.
Courtesy of the artist, Galerie Buchholz Berlin/Cologne/New York and Petzel Gallery.
Installation view Mine; 2019.
Photo by MONA/Jesse Hunniford.
Caterpillar Inc. Biometric worker fatigue monitoring smartband promotion screen video token (Minecraft); 2020; Aluminium, UV print on Plexiglas, fluo-rescent light tubes in original cardboard packaging, QR-code trigger to video capture of Minecraft exhibition: 68×120×10cm.
Photo by Achim Kukulies.
Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Buchholz, Berlin/Cologne/New York.
Installation view Mine; 2019.
Photo by Achim Kukulies.
Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Buchholz, Berlin/Cologne/New York.
Installation view Mine; 2019.
Photo by Achim Kukulies.
Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Buchholz, Berlin/Cologne/New York.
Installation view Mine; 2019.
Photo by Nick Ash.
Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Buchholz, Berlin/Cologne/New York.
Digital Globe ESRI Earth observation WorldView-4 satellite Extractor pop display; 2019; UV print on honeycomb cardboard, shrink-wrapped Extractorboardgames, Aluvision trade fair booth components: 343×92×347cm.
Photo by Achim Kukulies.
Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Buchholz, Berlin/Cologne/New York.
Epiroc Down-the-hole drill rig simulator SmartRoc D65 cardboard display; 2019; UV print on honeycomb cardboard, Aluminium poles, Extractor cardboard boxes: 390×460×230cm.
Photo by Achim Kukulies.
Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Buchholz, Berlin/Cologne/New York.

To “mine” is to extract physical materials from the earth – or to draw data from the landscape of information. Through gamified visual metaphors, ecological references, and allusions to corporate culture, Mine draws connections between the climate concerns, precarious labor conditions, and forces of technological development that converge in the technological present. The implications of mining’s multiple meanings – from siphoning rare earth resources to collecting and monetizing digital user data – are dramatized through a human-sized “Amazon worker cage”, an AR rendering of the endangered King Island Brown Thornbill, and a large-scale board game, “Extractor”, which doubles as an exhibition catalogue. In its 2021 incarnation for Petzel Gallery, the project also included a series of “NFT Mine Offsets”, extending these lines of inquiry to explore how blockchain technologies are implicated in questions of both data and resource extraction.

Exhibitions