Upstream Algae / AlgaeLAB

with Carolin Seeliger & Kathrin Köster

Havmøllen AiR, Ebeltoft, DK


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?




see also:
Upstream Algae / Aperó
Upstream Algae / Slippery Slope
Mæanderthaler

March/April 2025






AlgaeLAB - Wellness. Sunlight. Breathing. Skincare. Algify.
Gently we feed our breathing tissue the nourishing, oozing
guests here on land, only to let them back into the waves.


AlgaeLAB - Wellness. Beachlife. Shopping. Saline. Brandify.
Spinal sugar kelp gently imported by foot distance and
wrapped over the shoulder. A mass production franchise cut
and exported to the bottom line. What action? Joint action

HAVHAV M: in processu confidimus (2025)

A series of joint beach-side photographic drawings
(cyanotype), featuring human traces and seaweed,
where land dwellers and the sea, the concrete and
the unconscious merge.