An Art space in Stuttgart with exhibitions to art & climate change & science & sustainability & nature

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CIRCUIT OF BIRCH – Birch Collective

Warm invitation to the opening of the exhibition
Circuit of Birch
on Saturday, March 21, 2026 at 6 pm, the first day of spring.
The exhibition is on view til April 11, 2026.

The Birch Collective, formed specifically for this exhibition, conceives of itself as a mycelial entity whose mode of working interlaces diverse artistic positions and practices into a collective organism, activated within the exhibition space.

Employing interdisciplinary artistic approaches, the participating artists – Reinhard Krehl, Karl Michael Lange, Maria Grazia Sacchitelli, Mirja Wellmann, and Gabrielle Zimmermann – engage with the birch (Betula pendula). The works span drawing, objects, and sculpture, as well as video, sound, and food-based practices.

Central to the exhibition is the notion of cyclical processes, which connects the individual positions through shared materials, transferred methodologies, and intersecting conceptual frameworks. Extending beyond the motif of the birch, the works explore the complexity and interconnectedness of natural systems, alongside humanity’s enduring attempt to comprehend and articulate this order through artistic, scientific, mythological, and symbolic modes of knowledge.

We are a part of the Lange Nacht der Museen (Long night of museums) Stuttgart.

Foto Credit: Grazia Sacchitelli 2025

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A STORY OF ETERNITY by Séverin Guelpa

Opening on Friday, November 14, 2025, at 7 p.m. with a performance.

For the opening of the exhibition A Story of Eternity, Geneva-based artist Séverin Guelpa will present a spectacular material performance. Three hundred kilograms of earth, collected from various symbolic locations in Stuttgart, will be used to create a mold for a copper casting, for which he will use recycled metal from the city’s waste facilities.

Guelpa, who works extensively in deserts and regions weakened by mining and deals with both raw materials and explosives, draws inspiration for this new work, created especially for the opening, from the local context of Stuttgart.

On Friday, December 5, 2025, the second phase of the project will take place as part of the closing event, along with an artist talk with Séverin Guelpa and Julia Wirth.

old stone hold my soul / Marie Salcedo Horn

when I am not in this place, face the sunrise for me
Extract of: To Gahheya Ursula K. Le Guin (Always coming home, 1985)

The first quarter of the 21st century is almost over.
Crises, wars, and climate collapse are surrounding us. And make us feeling powerless.
How do we see our time and our future?
Marie Salcedo Horn is 30 years old and is wondering how people who are
10, 20, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, or 90 years old think about time and our future. Stones provide a point of reference for this. They were here long before us and will survive us who are alive today.

Our first meeting will be in the Travertinpark Stuttgart on Sunday, September 21, on 2 p.m.
Surrounded by rocks and their temporality, people of all ages can share their perspectives on time and the future and try to breathe with the stones. Together, we will experience various physical and listening exercises. Stones are representing permanence, immovability, and stillness, but they also move and change, just in a different temporality than we humans.
Can they give us stability?

Opening of the exhibition
old stone hold my soul
on Friday, October 10, 2025 on 7:30 p.m.,
in the art space kunst [ ] klima Stuttgart, Breitscheidstraße 104A, 70176 Stuttgart

Closing event on Friday, October 31, 7 p.m..

Projektraum kunst [ ] klima Stuttgart

Below

We cordially invite you to the closing reception of the exhibition
on August 1, 2025 on 7 pm with a lecture of Silja Lenz.

To the end of the exhibition Below, Silja Lenz invites you to a lecture that continues the poetic and mythical moment of her work. She will read the story “Die, die nie ganz auftaucht” (the one who never fully emerges), a literary dive into the deep sea, to a creature between myth and memory.

Below
by Silja Lenz 
Opening on Friday, Juli 11, 2025
at 5:45 pm for children
(in cooperation with the Youth Art School Stuttgart)
at 7 pm for everyone.

A soft body, fired in clay. Fragmentary, torn from movement, broken into pieces. What otherwise eludes the gaze now lies open before us – rigid, tangible, and yet foreign. From the depths, people tell stories: of beings that no one has fully seen, of tentacles that embrace ships. Between fear and fascination, an image emerges that says more about us than about what lives down there.

About
kunst [ ] klima 

The art space kunst [ ] klima is the first art space in Stuttgart to exclusively show exhibitions on the theme of climate change and sustainability.

The bracket between the terms art and climate is provided with a blank space, it opens a possible space for communication and connection, the blank space preserves openness and flexibility.

Unique exhibitions with works by artists from very different disciplines are shown, with a focus on predominantly scientific topics such as climate, weather, climate change, energy transition, plants, water, earth, earth history, biology, biochemistry, chemistry and artificial intelligence.

The focus of the exhibitions is largely on the content of a work shown and its art education. The advertisement for kunst[ ]klima takes place primarily via digital channels (instagram, newsletter).

Lecturers are invited to complement the exhibited topics.

We signed culture4climate.de's Declaration of sustainability in 2023!

Kunst Klima post cards
kunst klima atelier

Team

The project space was founded by Barbara Karsch-Chaïeb in 2021.

Florentine Bofinger is taking care of the graphic design, she has implemented the logo and is in contact with the Conzelmann printing company (Graphischer Betrieb Bisingen), which is printing the invitation cards. For reasons of sustainability papers are used that are in stock. The tool for embossing on the respective cards was made uniquely and is used repeatedly with different inks for each card.

Sponsors and Cooperation partners

Logo of Stadt Stuttgart
Logo of Ritter Sport
Logo of Conzelmann
Logo of Jukus
Logo of Institut Dr Flad
Logo of LBBW Stiftung
Logo of Uni Hohenheim