Posted in Berlin plants, Events/exhibitions/etc., Projects from others, tagged art, art project, Berlin, community garden, drawing, exhibition, garden on 1 September 2016| Leave a Comment »
You’re invited to the Tiny Haus at the Prinzessinnengarten, Berlin’s coolest community garden (where you can drink beer between trees), for an exhibition this Saturday and Sunday, 2-5pm (September 3-4). Drawings and herbarium specimens will fill the room, made by students from the past two Botanical Drawing Workshops taught by my friend and fellow urban plant lover, Mira O’Brien.
Posted in Events/exhibitions/etc., tagged art, Berlin, exhibition, park, photography, pictures, video on 7 October 2015| Leave a Comment »
For a few more days, deep in Berlin’s Neukölln district, you can find an entire exhibition full of art about urban gardens and plants. And the gallery is in an urban oasis, a sunken garden with fountains, lawns and flowers.
Do stop by Körnerpark if you are in town and see Urban Plant Research exhibiting alongside other botanically-inclined artists. The closing reception at 5pm on Sunday, October 11, will include a tour guided by the curator and several of the artists. We sadly cannot be there in person and hope you will represent us if you are in Berlin!
Image from Galerie im Körnerpark’s Facebook page, © Nihad Nino Pusija, 2015.
Posted in Events/exhibitions/etc., tagged architecture, art, Berlin, exhibition, garden, gardening, neukölln, park, photography, pictures on 14 July 2015| Leave a Comment »
The exhibition Andere Gärten (Different Gardens) opens this Friday in Berlin and Urban Plant Research is honored to be participating with a new video, Beobachtungen/Observations. We’re especially excited about the show because it is not only about urban gardens, it will be in an urban garden! (more…)
Posted in Berlin plants, Events/exhibitions/etc., Projects from others, tagged art book, artist, ATAK, Berlin, exhibition, garden, illustration, painting on 30 November 2013| Leave a Comment »
At 5pm today, artist ATAK is introducing his new book, Der Garten, 32 pages of his paintings about the garden. “The garden breathes time and time breathes as a garden. I go to the garden in the evenings to breathe,” he says.
Posted in Berlin plants, Projects from others, tagged Berlin, exhibition, flowers, funny, neukölln on 20 August 2013| 2 Comments »
Wolf Klein runs a nomadic flower shop where all the flowers are photographs. Back in the day, he was also one of Urban Plant Research’s first readers. And, in more recent times, he’s been balancing things on his head. Some of them are plants.
Posted in Events/exhibitions/etc., Plants worldwide, Projects from others, tagged exhibition, Hamburg, installation, urban plants, video, weeds on 11 May 2012| Leave a Comment »
Artist duo Iris-a-Maz invite us all to their new video installation, Ultra Plants, opening tonight, May 11, in Hamburg. As fellow artistic investigators of urban plants who have contributed insights and images to Urban Plant Research in the past, Iris-a-Maz have now turned their attention to so-called weeds.
Posted in Events/exhibitions/etc., Projects from others, tagged call for artists, exhibition, festival, Germany, Hamburg, island, urban plants on 24 February 2011| Leave a Comment »
Hello, urban plant detectives! We are coming out of our long hiatus to pass along an intriguting Call for Artists that we received from Laura Raber of the annual MS Dockville summer festival, which is held on an urban island in Hamburg.
Now in its fifth year, the festival will cover two months of events, plus an ARTCAMP, an open-air / open process exhibition. ARTCAMP is seeking proposals from artists of all disciplines, emerging and established.
Posted in Brooklyn plants, Events/exhibitions/etc., tagged acoustic, Brooklyn, exhibition, folk, houseplant, jam, john prine, music, open source, residency, secret lives of plants, south slope, urban plants on 19 October 2009| 3 Comments »
Now that we’ve had a breather after our breathless and beautiful residency at South Slope’s Open Source, I want to start sharing images and footage of what we did there for those who couldn’t make it – and also for those who did visit and contribute, but want to revisit! This video captures just one song of many from our closing event, the Jam for the Plants.
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Posted in Berlin plants, Brooklyn plants, Events/exhibitions/etc., tagged artists, Brooklyn, exhibition, installation, New York, Open Source Gallery, residency on 19 August 2009| 2 Comments »
Urban Plant Research’s first New York exhibition and residency began last Saturday at Open Source Gallery in Brooklyn! It kicked off with an opening party filled with friends, neighbors, fellow artists and plant lovers, pizza and beer.
Posted in Berlin plants, Events/exhibitions/etc., tagged Berlin, contest, exhibition, luck, quiz, subway, U-bahn on 29 May 2009| Leave a Comment »
There is just one day left to try your luck at our U8 Plant Quiz, on view in the exhibition “Glück Gehabt!” (That was Lucky!) in the Berlin subway. This exhibition of artists’ posters will be ending tomorrow, and so will our quiz.
You can take the quiz right here on our website. It features six plants that we observered near stations near the U8 subway line. Whether you live in Berlin or not, you are invited to try to guess which station each plant was growing near. I mean, you can always take a virtual walk in Google Earth, right? Those who locate all 6 plants correctly will be entered in a drawing to win a piece of art.
If you DO live in Berlin and might be passing through the Bernauer Str. station today or tomorrow, you can catch a glimpse of our poster before it is taken down.
We’ll announce the winner next week here on the blog. Good luck!
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