Circuit of Birch
opening of the exhibition on Saturday, March 21, 2026 at 6 pm, the first day of spring.
We are a part of the Lange Nacht der Museen (Long night of museums) Stuttgart.
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.

Programm on the Long Nights of Museum:
On 7 p.m. and on 9:30 p.m. Artist Talk with the Birch Collective.
On 9 p.m. you can hear the Sound performance “Living Streams” (approx. 15–20 min.).
Living organisms are interconnected, processing and sending different signals. They form a world of networks that we can only imagine. In a performance, students from the FKN Lab for Art and Sustainability at the Free Art Academy Nürtingen will experimentally reveal this world.

We deliberately chose not to print invitation cards for this exhibition, but instead are offering a very special limited edition of handmade paper: