Gärten der Sinne
Environmental / Deutschland
Three-part work positioned across a post-mining forest in Brandenburg, Niederlausitz (Lower Lusatia), Deutschland—a landscape strip-mined for brown coal until its natural systems collapsed. The site’s deep history is rooted in the region’s Slavic occupation.
At ground level, there is a steel feeding manger filled with orchard grass (Dactylis glomerata). Nine meters high, a steel basket containing the same grass hangs between trees. Plastic nursery containers from failed reforestation attempts scatter across the forest floor as permanent debris.
The feeding structures reference the aurochs (Bos primigenius), the extinct ancestor of domestic cattle that appears in Niederlausitz’s heraldry. The last aurochs (wild ox) died in 1627. The 10-hektar site is designated “Gärten der Sinne” (Garden of the Senses). Visitors move between feeding structures built for an absent animal and plastic waste, in a landscape shaped by extraction. The elevated grass remains permanently out of reach. ☐
Steel, Orchard Grass (Dactylis glomerata)
2 x 4 x 1 meters
Steel, Orchard Grass (Dactylis glomerata)
1 meter wide, 9 meters above ground
Plastic
Various, up to 5 meters in length
Steel, Orchard Grass (Dactylis glomerata)
1 meter wide, 9 meters above ground
Plastic
Various, up to 5 meters in length
Steel, Orchard Grass (Dactylis glomerata)
1 meter wide, 9 meters above ground
Plastic
Various, up to 5 meters in length
Steel, Orchard Grass (Dactylis glomerata)
1 meter wide, 9 meters above ground
Plastic
Various, up to 5 meters in length
Location: Gehren (Heideblick), Brandenburg, Niederlausitz, Deutschland
Champs Magnétiques Künstlersymposium Artists: Josina von der Boivin, Rainer Fest, Ulrich Krauss, Adolphe Lechtenberg, Inge Schmidt, Nadia Schmidt
Presenter: KunstNaturLandschaft Gärten der Sinne
DE Support: Ministry of Science, Research and Culture of the State of Brandenburg, District of Dahme-Spreewald
Industry: Arts and Culture—Outdoor Installation and Public Art
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