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Biemann's work contributes to numerous group exhibitions worldwide and has been exhibited in
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From 2018 to 2023 Biemann was commissioned new work by the Museo de Arte at the
National University of Colombia UNAL, initiating a long-term collaboration with the Indigenous Inga people of Colombia creating an Indigenous University in the rainforest. The cooperation resulted in the media work
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Her works were first noted in the international media art scene before a first exhibition in
Switzerland in 2009. Her works have been exhibited internationally since 1998, and are held by several
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Switzerland, as well as by the Centre national d'art et de culture Georges Pompidou in Rennes, Migros Museum, the Musée d'Art du Valais in Sion, Swiss Federal Art Collection BKS
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with a focus on the intelligence in nature and a dialogue between scientific and ancestral knowledge systems.
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