2025 Exhibitions: Rising Tides
The Minnesota Marine Art Museum presents the 2025 exhibition theme Rising Tides, inviting visitors to explore humanity’s intricate relationship with water through a series of groundbreaking exhibitions. From Edward Burtynsky’s abstract aerial photographs in Water, to Alexis Rockman’s monumental paintings of oceanic transformation in Oceanus, and Shelly Mosman’s striking, water-inspired portraits in Currents, each show reveals water as a source of life, a cultural force, and a vanishing resource. Erik Jon Olson’s Waste Not and Michael Kareken’s Ebb and Flow reimagine discarded materials, offering powerful commentary on sustainability and renewal.
Additionally, the 2025 literary arts exhibition, Once Upon a Shore, curated by Ojibwe writer Heid Erdrich, weaves Indigenous narratives of rivers and lakes with multidisciplinary artistry, while Spectacle in Motion: The Grand Panorama of a Whaling Voyage ‘Round the World immerses visitors in the 19th-century spectacle of maritime storytelling with a 1,275-foot long and 8-foot high panoramic painting. Anchoring the year is Fluid: What is Marine Art, and What Can it Be?, which juxtaposes historic and contemporary works, expanding our perception of marine art. Through Rising Tides, we invite you to reflect on water’s essential yet imperiled role in our lives and our shared future.
A Nation Take Place
On view August 21, 2024 - March 2, 2025
Edward Burtynsky: Water
On view January 11 - June 2025
Shelly Mosman: Currents
On view January 11 - April 27, 2025
Once Upon a Shore
On view January 25, 2025 - January 4, 2026
A Spectacle in Motion: The Grand Panorama of a Whaling Voyage 'Round the World
On view March 18, 2025 - March 1, 2026
Erik Jon Olson: Waste Not
On view May 3 - August 24, 2025
Alexis Rockman: Oceanus
On view June 28, 2025 - January 4, 2026
Michael Kareken: Ebb and Flow
On view August 30 - December 28, 2025
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This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a Minnesota State Arts Board Operating Support grant, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts & cultural heritage fund.