Fellow, Hawkwood Centre for Future Thinking
CV
Andrew Amondson is an American artist based in Berlin, known for large-scale kinetic and living installations that reflect nature and bring people closer to the living world. He is a member of Studio Olafur Eliasson and part of EER, where his walking practice, Walking With, was developed into an art-science research project, included in the 2025 program of the Festival of Future Nows at the Neue Nationalgalerie. He has been a lead artist with Forest of Imagination in Bath, UK, since 2021. His film work includes collaborations with Wim Wenders and the Berlin International Film Festival. He is a Fellow of the Hawkwood Centre for Future Thinking and of the Royal Society of Arts.
Creative Strategist, Netflix
Artist & Co-Founder, Playful Nature, Berlin
Collective Day Dreaming — Forest of Imagination, Entry Hill, Bath
installation and workshop
Forest Cathedral — Messums West, Wiltshire
touring to Winchester Cathedral, Feb 2027
The Water's Way — Entry Hill and American Museum & Gardens, Bath
Walking With Our Future Ideas — Festival of Future Nows, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin
Solar Punk Futures (Amos Blanton) — Festival of Future Nows, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin
contributing artist and co-producer
The Big Pink Caterpillar — Forest of Imagination, Entry Hill, Bath
Woven Together — Dinton Pastures Country Park, Wokingham
Precious — The Scale of Water (group), Michael Penny Gallery, Bath
Where We Find Ourselves — permanent installation, Museum of Science and Technology Leonardo da Vinci, Playlab, Milan
Wondering Ways — National Trust Bath Assembly Rooms
Living Tree — Mirror Maze — The Egg Theatre, Forest of Imagination
Inspire Future Generations Award
Living Tree Forest — The Egg Theatre, Forest of Imagination
You and Me Make Tree — Forest of Imagination, Bath
Organic Geometry; Trees for the Forest — tête, Berlin
The Big Green Thing — Counterplay, Dokk1, Aarhus
Ushi — The Art of Vegan Sushi — Food Art Week, Berlin
String Theory — tête, Berlin
William Don't Tell — tête, Berlin
Living Tree — Reflection — Bishopstrow Hotel
Walking With — Dinton Pastures Country Park, Wokingham
Where We Find Ourselves — Museum of Science and Technology Leonardo da Vinci, Playlab, Milan
Restoring Time — director, producer, writerWim Wenders Foundation; featured on the Criterion Collection release of The Road Trilogy
Making 1899 — producer, directorNetflix
Amondson, A. (2026). "Wondering Ways: the art of living installations and Walking With." In Future Flow: Imagine the possibilities, A. Carey and P. Hay. Bath Spa University Press, p. 39. ISBN 978-1-7394822-0-6
Hay, P. and Amondson, A. (2026). "Forest of Imagination and the Living Tree." In Ecologies in Practice and Learning: Arts Interventions in the Earth Crisis, ed. M. Matthews. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 203–218. ISBN 9783031823374
Inspire Future Generations Award — Living Tree Mirror Maze
Shortlisted, Lexus Design Award — The Living Tree
Fellow, Royal Society of Arts (RSA)
"Learning Like a Forest" workshop, with Penny Hay — Creative Learning Festival, Playlab, Milan
Mainstage Ignite talk, with Amos Blanton — Museum of Science and Technology Leonardo da Vinci, Milan
"Forest of Imagination" session, We Will Dance with Mountains (Bayo Akomolafe) — with Penny Hay and Hanna McDowall
UCL Centre for Holocaust Education and Human Rights — "The Living Tree and Circle at The Egg Theatre"
Ecologies in Practice panel, Goldsmiths — with Esther Sayers, Penny Hay, Alexandre Mballa-Ekobena
Dorset Life — "Forest Cathedral installation opens at Messums West ahead of public launch"
Corriere della Sera — "Wow, che scienza al nuovo Playlab," Marta Ghezzi, 29 November 2024, p. 19Italian, print
Il Giornale — national coverage of the Playlab / MUST openingItalian
Il Giorno — national coverage of the Playlab / MUST openingItalian
FocusJunior (Mondadori) — national children's magazine featureItalian
Design Diffusion — "PLAYLAB: the world of science for young minds"
Landezine International Landscape Award — "Forest of Imagination – Assemble in the Forest"
Bath Echo — "Forest of Imagination arts event to take over the Assembly Rooms"
The Studio in Bath — "The Living Tree: Forest of Imagination"
MASER (Material : Art : Science : Environment : Research), Bath Spa University
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Boston University