WINTERS GARDENING

Orangeries and palm houses, originally designed to cultivate unknown species in close proximity, have always been places of longing, a room for one‘s own, allowing dreamy journeys to distant worlds as winter gardens and luxurious extensions reserved for only a few people as prestige architecture. In this duality—half garden, half living room—this architectural extension is a refuge and habitat for people and plants in a protected atmosphere. Things can (survive) here that cannot cope with the climate of the northern hemisphere—which is vulnerable and particularly in need of protection.
The exhibition “WiNTERS GARDENING” (working title) deals with protective spaces for fragile beings and species—those who, in times of increasing displacement and the threat of political tightening in any direction, particularly fear for their own habitats and niches. Allegorically to the concept of the “winter garden”, Gesa Kolb, Nadjana Mohr, and Darcy Neven thematize the artistic strategies for demarcation against an impending “winter” and seek aesthetic allegories on the theme of the “garden”, its liveliness and diversity. The exhibition aims to create a space for healing, transition of beings along the connection of the three artistic practices.

Curated by @lisaoord

Gesa Kolb, Nadjana Mohr, Darcy Neven (ICA)