2025 Plant Humanities Conversations: Plant Extinction & Resurrection

She experiments with simulation, representation, and the nonhuman perspective to question our ongoing societal fixation on innovation over preservation. In 2023, she won the S+T+ARTS Grand Prize—Artistic Exploration for her experimental interspecies living artwork, Pollinator Pathmaker. She received her Ph.D. from the Royal College of Art and is resident at Somerset House Studios, London. In 2024, Ginsberg was commissioned by Manifesta, the European Nomadic Biennial, to create her first stained glass window installation, Every Thing Eats Light. That same year she opened her first Swedish solo exhibition at Bildmuseet, Umeå, expanding her immersive light and sound installation Machine Auguries (2019–ongoing) with a new site-specific edition in 2025.

In seeking to restore the complexity of the real, her artworks draw on multiple references—botanical, ecological, historical, and cultural. Progressing by associations and deductions is her favored method in producing paintings, videos, digital works, and installations. Her pieces often appear as elaborate snapshots of an ongoing inquiry, blending reinterpretations, theoretical reflections, and speculative visions.

Born in São Paulo and based in Milan, Hirsch holds an MS.c. in Industrial Engineering from the University of São Paulo and an MBA from SDA Bocconi. She has been an artist-in-residence at Residency Unlimited and AnnexB in New York and was nominated for the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation’s Grants and Commissions Program. She has lectured at institutions including Bocconi University, Accademia di Brera, Università Statale di Milano, John Cabot University, Gallerie d’Italia, and the Galleria d’Arte Moderna in Milan. Her work has been exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions mainly across Europe, the United States, and Brazil.