Speaking Icebergish – A23a

Between Alarm and Aesthetic: A Critic's Reflection on “Speaking Icebergish – A23a”


In the blazing heat of a Mallorcan August, the HMH Gallery in Port Andratx offers not refuge, but revelation. Curated by Judith Sturm, Speaking Icebergish is no ordinary exhibition—it is a transcontinental symphony of silent voices, gathered under the haunting presence of the world’s largest iceberg, A23a. From August 1–15, 2025, this curated experience invites viewers into a poetic, participatory meditation on climate fragility and cultural empathy.

Mail Art as Global Resonance Born from an open call for triangular mail-art submissions, the initiative transforms everyday paper into vessels of planetary expression. With over 400 works spanning 36 countries—many crafted by children—the show transcends geography and hierarchy. The pieces are modest in form yet monumental in message, echoing the crystalline lattice of ice formations while constructing a metaphorical iceberg from human hope and anxiety.

An Iceberg as Protagonist A23a, calved from Antarctica in 1986 and adrift ever since, is not background but character. Now, as it drifts toward its final dissolution in temperate waters, it becomes a spectral symbol—of memory, entropy, and impending loss.




Its imagined language, “Icebergish,” becomes the exhibition’s conceptual core: What would an iceberg say, and do we still know how to listen?

Highlights of Poetic Precision

Maxima Maria Kinsky’s Sad Fairy of Iceberg A23a conjures a melancholic climate nymph—a fragile embodiment of melting glaciers and internal emotional climate.
The Polish duo Czeszre (Wojciech Czeronko and Piotr Szreniawski) delivers the titular piece Speaking Icebergish?, channeling metaphor into minimalist visual irony.

Jeeja Yuvraj Navghare’s yet-to-arrive contribution casts fictional calligraphy as an elegy for lost languages of nature.

Maks Dannecker offers a haunting photographic abstraction in ultramarine—where fresh meets salt, ice meets sea, without borders.
Anne Weigert’s Save the Bears satirizes the commodification of polar bears, morphing them into gummy bear motifs that tease and critique ecological branding.

Abdolreza Rabeti’s Human and Environment presents a somber iceberg silhouette entwined with fragile red flora—a study in wounded dignity.
Lars Schumacher’s All Good Words captures linguistic dissolution: words fragment like ice floes, drifting into an ocean of lost meaning.

Form as Metaphor By requesting equilateral triangle submissions, the curators orchestrate geometric unity among divergent voices. The shape references ice’s crystalline beauty and simultaneously permits the modular creation of a collaborative sculptural A23a—art as collective action.

Nomadic Continuity This exhibition refuses to remain static. In September, it migrates to Château de Monboucher in Dordogne, France, under the title Glace Nomade – L’Iceberg A23a en Voyage. Like its titular glacier, the show drifts—trailing questions, visuals, and unresolved emotions.

Critic's Verdict Speaking Icebergish does what few climate-themed exhibitions achieve: it merges activism with aesthetics without slipping into dogma. Its messages are whispered rather than shouted, yet they linger like echoes in melting caverns. This is not a sermon, but a séance—with art as medium between the seen and the sublimated.

As the iceberg continues to melt, the true question this exhibition asks is not whether we’re listening—but whether we care to learn the language before it disappears entirely.

“Speaking Icebergish” – Climate Project A23A An international art initiative by Art Collection Andersreich and Galeria HMH Curated by Judith Sturm

Exhibition Dates: August 1–15, 2025  Venue: Galeria HMH, Calle de sa Fàbrica 11, Port Andratx, Mallorca - Opening: Friday, August 1, 2025, from 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM - Hours: Tuesday to Saturday, 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM

Following its debut in Mallorca, the exhibition will continue its journey from August 30 to September 30, 2025, to Château de Monboucher in Dordogne, France, under the title: “Glace Nomade – L’Iceberg A23a en Voyage”

Participating Nations (36 in total): Belarus, Belgium, Brazil, Chile, Denmark, Germany, France, India, Iran, Italy, Japan, Canada, Colombia, Morocco, Mexico, Malaysia, Macedonia, Netherlands, Norway, Austria, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Switzerland, Singapore, Slovakia, Spain, South Africa, Czech Republic, Turkey, Hungary, USA, Venezuela, United Kingdom, and Vietnam.



List of Participating Artists:

Abdolreza Rabeti | Achim Schmacks | Alexandre Nicolas | Ali Salehi | Alina Abbaszadeh | Amir Ali Esmaeli | Amir Gohari | Ana Luisa Aravello Gomez | Ana Paula Barros | Anas Bouanani | Andia Nourali Zadeh | Andreas Kühn | Andreas Streicher | Angel Avello | Ania Ajami | Anisa Mostafa Zadeh | Anisa Pashazadeh Avval | Anke Vos | Anna Bogácsiová | Anne Weigert | Annette Behlau | Annie Roth | Arghavan Alipoor | Armin Fischer | Artian Hasani Zadeh | Artin Hosseyn Salimkandi | Artin Najafi | Artina Zolfi | Asma Ounine | Atilan Moaddeli | Ayli Vahedi | Aysa Basiri | Aysan Kafi Yazdi | Baran Asl Asadi | Barana Jebeli | Barbara Ihme | Behesht Samadi | Bérénice Beaurain-Carpentier | Berna (imagine par b) | Camille Sohyer | Carmela Sarcina | Carsten Westpfahl | Catherine Arre | Ceszre | Christiano Pallara | Christina Pérez | Claudia Sbrissa | Czeszre Duo | Daniel C Boyer | Daniela Klein | David Norbert | Deniz Afra | Deniz Mehri | Derya Avci | Diana Doosti | Diyana Taghizadeh | Dororta Kilichowska | Ed Hanssen | Edmond Dantes | Elay Rezaei Gharagozli | Elaroz Jabbari | Elena Seyedi | Elina Salmani | Elsa Gohari | Elsa Seyed Bagheri | Elsa Soleymani | Elsana Ahmadi | Elsana Heydari Shahin | Elsun Heydari | Elvin Allahyari | Enrique Fuentes | Farnaz Shoar | Fatemeh Karimi | Fidels Daughter | Florence Caré | Gerald Jauß | Gertie Meijers | Gisele Buntrock | Gloria Keh | Gülçin Kanar Şimşek | Hana Abdollah Pouryan Mavaneh | Hana Hossein pour | Hanna Najafi | Hasti Azmi | Hasti Baleshzar | Helen Safizadeh | Hengameh Hemati | Herma Deenen | Hoda Heydari | Iliya Norouzi | Ilya Afsharian Shishvan | Irén Vitos | Irena Paskali | Irina (Tall) Novikova | Iskandra Khan | Jade Diarra | Jana Conroy | Janan Mamaghani | Jaromir Svozilik | Jeanette Geissler | Judith Sturm | Julie Boehm | Justine Hennebert | Kasra Salek | Katarina Manderik | Keiichi Nakamura | Kiana Honarvar | Kiarash Kiavar | Kindle & González | Kouhyar Alipoor | Lars Schumacher | Leo Hainzl | Lilou Moerman | Lisa Boloma | Lola Murielle Couty | Lou Liska | Mahan Moaddeli | Mahdieh Hadinia | Mahdina Ghorbani | Mahora Jebeli | Mahsan Bahremand | Majon Wallis | Maks Dannecker | Mani Radin Fard | Manuela Merl | Marcel Heisig | Marcia Rosenberger | Maria do Carmo Both | Marie Boeynaems | Mario Liguigli | Mary Nash | Maryam Rahimi Pour Fanaei | Marzia Maria Braglia | Marzieh Zare | Maxima Maria Kinsky | Maysa Fekril | Mehan Farhadi | Mehraneghar Harasi | Melanie Bäreis | Melika Abdollahi | Melorin Heydari Naghadehi | Meral Ağar | Mersana Karimi | Michaela Kindle | Mirjam Voets | Mohamad Aghazad | Mohammad Amin Rahimi | Mohammad Rabieekia | Mona Kiefer | Monika K. Adler | Monika Vos | Muriel Verstichel (Eve Rst) | Myriam Muzeau | Nafas Mehri Shishvan | Nani Corina | Naserin Soleymani | Natalie Kolaric | Nathalie amie de Marie | Nathalie Roth | Nazanin Tahmazi | Nazende Yücel | Nazgol Jebeli | Nihal Roshan Far | Nika Charkhkar | Nilay Khandani | Niloofar Daryani | Océane Roth | Pablo Carreño Grendi | Parand Pahlavan | Parham Imani | Parla Azarnia | Peter Abajkovics | Petra Fenijn | Pinar Aghazad | Piotr Szreniawski | Pol Peiró Navarro | Poul Poclage | Pouneh Imani | Pransa Taghaddosi | Raha Mohamadiyan | Ralf Buchholz | Ramona Valipour | Rastin Karimi | Raul Jiménez Baiseno | Renata Danicek | Renata Lichańska-Mleczko | Reyhaneh Kazemi | Rittiner & Gomez | Roberto Scala | Roza Jalili | Rozhin Rikhtehgaran | Ruggero Maggi | Rolf Ohst | Ryosuke Cohen | Sabela Baña | Saghar Dolati | Salime Kaman | Sanam Nooralipoori | Sandra Buntrock | Saya Mohamad Nejad | Saya Rashidi | Sedna Ghahramani | Selda Mashayekhi | Selen Ghaffari | Sepideh Abedi | Shadi Heydar Pour | Shaghayegh Dolati | Shaylin Iranifar | Sibylle Möndel | Simon Warren | Simone Lukas | Soheila Sadeghi | Sonia Cabanas | Soroush Najaf Abadi | Soulan Torabi | Stephen Tomasko | Susan Gold Smith | Susanne Dagmar Olsen | Susanne Schumacher | Suzlee Ibrahim | Tanaz Kaveh | The Wasted Angel | Thorsten Frank | Thorsten Fuhrmann | Tim Davies | Tina Hashemzaee | Toan Vinh La | Tony Roth | Vera Maria Zapp | Veyan Nosrati | Viyan Mohammadi | Wojciech Czeronko | Wolfgang Faller | Yalda Abas Zadeh | Yasamin Amini | Yasamin Daryani | Yasna Saraeinia | Yukabod Javadi | Yuko | Zahra Firouzi | Zlatko Krstevski | _guroga |


Location: Carrer de sa Fábrica, 11, 07157 Port d'Andratx, Illes Balears, Spanien

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