Challenge: Organizing a climate-neutral production and protocol

With the Zero Fund grant, nGbK was able to employ Elie Peuvrel as the climate officer for our project and for the institution as a whole. In addition to supporting our team, he worked with nGbK to calculate the organization’s carbon footprint and make green improvements. Elie attended most of the KSB’s  Zero Academy sessions and quickly got up to speed on how to fulfill the climate requirements, allowing us to concentrate on our research and curatorial questions.

Within SALT. CLAY. ROCK., we created working groups for “communications” and “production,” as well as a dedicated “climate working group,” ensuring that Elie had consistent curatorial partners to dialog with.

To produce our exhibition, we first established climate goals, followed by climate-neutral working protocols, both with Elie and internally. These then had to be communicated to our artists and producers, Dina Darabos and Karoline Kerkai, to ensure the goals were met.

Climate-neutral production mostly involved identifying the most climate-neutral options available for travel, accommodation, art transport, and materials. Elie supported us in researching these options, educated us on the requirements and potential pitfalls of CO₂ accounting, and kept us informed about how nGbK’s overall carbon accounting impacted our project-specific CO₂ goals—offering insights that could, in turn, shape curatorial and artistic decisions.