Eduardo
Kairuz

Dr Eduardo Kairuz is an architect, artist, and scholar, as well as co-director of the Global Extraction Observatory (GEO). His work is concerned with the transformative effects of crisis on space, a means to address questions of social and climate justice. His practice-based research has been part of prestigious international events, including the Venice Architecture Biennale and the Gwangju Design Biennale. Solo shows include Variations at The Substation in Melbourne and Dismantled at Centro Cultural Chacao in Caracas. Eduardo’s current research looks at problems of representation in the new climatic regime and how undisciplined forms of spatial practice can contribute to developing a resistance aesthetics. Before joining MADA as an Architecture Lecturer in 2011, Eduardo was a Visiting Lecturer at University of Technology Sydney and an Assistant Professor at Universidad Central de Venezuela. Prior to these appointments, Eduardo practised architecture in Venezuela for several years, designing award-winning slum rehabilitation projects.

In spring 2025, Eduardo Kairuz will be working with Sam Spurr on the project ‘Lithium Unearthed: Hope and Perils for a Green Future’. Spurr and Kairuz will take an innovative, creative practice-based approach in this project, spanning multiple disciplines, narratives and perspectives to unravel the entanglements around lithium extraction and consumption.

The DAAD Arts and Media program, the City of Potsdam and the Research Institute for Sustainability – Helmholtz Centre Potsdam (RIFS) have launched a new fellowship programme, the ‘Planetary Transitions: Potsdam Artist Residency’. The fellowship is open to artists from abroad or those who have only recently moved to Germany and will be realised at the RIFS. The fellows work on their projects on campus and are supported in networking with researchers at RIFS as well as cultural and scientific institutions in the greater Potsdam/Berlin area.