Participating Artists & Researchers
Artists and researchers include Camilla Berner, Ewen Chardronnet, Field Narratives (Sascia Bailer, Andreas Doepke, hn. lyonga, Lene Markusen), Taro Furukata, Fernando Garcia-Dory, Frauke Gerstenberg & Leon Bischinger (Muthesius Kunsthochschule Kiel), Seraina Grupp, Maj Hasager (Malmö Art Academy), Emilio Hernández Martínez (Cocina CoLaboratorio) & Dea López (Co.merr), Michael Hiltbrunner, Christian Huck, James Jack, Astrid S. Klein, Lene Markusen, Maya Minder, Meika Mizuno, Eva Hertzsch & Adam Page, Åsa Sonjasdotter, Riikka Tauriainen, Byungseo Yoo, Daniela Zambrano Almidón, and more. With local experts Wiebke Habbe, Erika Harzer, Raphaela Kuhn & Basti Weber, Inke Magens, Marle Rudolph and others.

The project seeks to get to the bottom of these questions:
How can contemporary artistic practices and their exhibitionary formats contribute to a sustainable way of life? How can cultural practices help to translate evidence-based knowledge into common knowledge?

The one-year exhibition project “Art as Ecological Practice” at the Arthur Boskamp Foundation in rural northern Germany aims to implement ecological thinking in artistic and collaborative practices. To do this, we may have to leave the symbolic distance of art. The project aims to go beyond aesthetic representations of “nature” and broaden awareness of the climate crisis. It aims to put ecological thinking into action through artistic, scientific and economic collaboration.
The project will unfold in four public festivals that bring together artistic research, scientific findings and perspectives with local references. These gatherings will include workshops, performances, cooking events, lectures and informal encounters, and aim to create evidence-based, transversal knowledge between art, science and everyday life.

Expanded Exhibitionary Practices
Instead of a static exhibition, “Art as Ecological Practice” will develop over the course of the year and “grow” with each seasonal gathering. The exhibition will integrate new works that unfold over different periods of time, existing works, and documentation of collaborations on site. By involving artists, scientists and local practitioners, the project promotes participatory encounters and translocal connections. The exhibition space thus potentially becomes a contact zone in which an exchange about local conditions and transcultural knowledge is made possible and in which the asymmetrical glocal relationships in which we are all entangled can be critically and self-critically examined.