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