Eröffnung »The Park as Lover«

In the organizer's words:

OnJune 9, 2024 , The Park as Lover , the fifth edition of Lantz'scher Skulpturenpark, a project by Kunstkommission Düsseldorf, will open. In the three-month exhibition, performance and event program conceived by Katharina Klang, we will encounter Lantz'sche Park in Lohausen from the perspective of its non-human inhabitants as equal counterparts - as lovers.

A list of all participating artists will be published here shortly.

A cross-section of European garden art history shows how closely the creation of parks is linked to hegemonic demands. The design of gardens in particular reflects the striving for representation and the display of trade relations, which found expression in different design principles. Contrary to this Western anthropocentric logic of importing and cultivating, which requires demarcations such as nature/culture, animal/human, man/woman, The Park as Lover aims to focus on symbiotic relationships and the creative abilities of all beings. What do the trees tell us? Is birdsong more than a necessary technique? What can we learn from the self-organizing powers of microbes? At the center of this questioning is the concept of a comprehensive kinship of all species and the reversal of learned subject-object attributions.