Renate Liebel
December 8, 2023 – January 5, 2024

Renate Liebel is a visual artist who explores man-made and naturally grown systems, thinking primarily about plants and their connection to relics of civilization. Her work includes installations in the open field, still lifes and objects of plants that do not (yet?) exist, graphic sketches, videos and friendly care processes.
For the exhibition, she made a trip to the University of Hohenheim, Department of conversion technologies of renewable materials into the production of bio-based plastics. Inspired by the carbon and nutrient cycles, drawings of fictitious plant-machine hybrids were created that hybrids that can incorporate microplastics and other synthetic materials into metabolic metabolic processes.
In addition, experiments with soil as a modeling material and an artistic look at the mattress that has been left lying in the forest and has been given a new life over the years.

Photo Credits: Ulrike Reichart, 2024

Live performance Stuttgart, September 21, 2023
„Listen to bogs – see bogs“ is a live performance of light art and sound art. This format works with material beyond the tiny range of human sensory perception. Bogs are not normally audible, individual cells of peat moss are not visible. Kurt Laurenz Theinert’s visual language uses these microscope images and translates them into an aesthetic experience. Similarly, the sound of organic processes deep in bog bodies is used as source material for sound processing. Invisibility and inaudibility are transformed into perceptibility. Live measurements of climate data from the performance venue, such as CO2 and room temperature, intervene directly in the visible and audible. The audience experience and shape the processes themselves through their presence. Immersive, expansive 360-degree video installations and the quadrophonic sound structure allow the audience to immerse themselves in incomprehensible processes.

Kurt Laurenz Theinert – Light art
Kurt Holzkämper – sound art
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Sustainable Food, October 6, 2023 7 pm
Have you ever tried turf?
Indirectly, we consume it every day. Our current diet makes peatlands one of the most endangered ecosystems on earth. 95% of peatlands in Germany and 90% in Europe are fields and pastures. These dry peatlands are among the largest and most dangerous climate emitters1, while wet peatlands are among the most effective climate protection measures.
We are currently eating our earth and climate, so to speak.
At the social sculpture “Eating the Earth”, Sustainable Food Art artist Anja Fiedler will serve up edible peat as a surprising and tasty treat for the palate. Garnished with poetry and facts, the food becomes a delicious temptation and thought-provoking fare. Questions and changes of perspective arise, which can be absorbed with the food in the truest sense of the word.

Thursday, Oktober 19, 2023 at 7 pm at Institute Dr. Flad
„Why wet bogs are better than dry ones and what it has to do with the climate?“
Lecture by Gerald Jurasinski.

Photo Credits: Ulrike Reichart, 2023

Opening on Friday May 19, 2023 on 7:30 pm
In the exhibition blühen (blossom), each monument is created only for a single moment. Each item is found in everyday environments, especially plants in the green spaces of Stuttgart. The exhibited pieces will be borrowed, assembled for the exhibition show and then afterwards returned, if possible, otherwise recycled. The exhibition will change its appearance constantly over the period of the four weeks.

The exhibition ends on June 16, 2023 on 7 pm with an introduction of Enno Lehmann.

Photo Credits: Ulrike Reichart, 2023

Introduction by Dr Verena Jendrus, art historian.

The exhibition ends on 21 April with a finissage starting at 7 pm. 

The video work Lost Waters and Found Stairs deals with the effects of man-made advance on fish in rivers. Poetic moments are combined with documentary film sequences. Among other things, the artist duo explores the question of how and whether humans can intervene in nature without completely upsetting it. Other pieces of the group of works are also on display. For example, a sculpture made of fired clay and concrete reliefs.
On the Long Night of Museums on 25 March 2023, the exhibition will be open from 6 to 1 pm. The artist duo will be present and will give guided tours of the exhibition at 7 and 9 pm. 

We would like to thank our sponsors for their kind support for this exhibition: