Artists’ Gardens Weimar

www.uni-weimar.de/projekte/kuenstlergaerten/

Conceptual, process-based, and participatory work by Barbara Nemitz as a comprehensive forum:
Living Plants in Contemporary Art (1993–2003)
Official project of Weimar 1999, KULTURSTADT EUROPAS

Focus: Vegetation
Working with plants was presented as an important phenomenon in contemporary art. As opposed to working with “dead” material, which can no longer change its form once it has been worked, plants in particular can enable us to perceive dependencies and coherencies. The form of the work is not determined by the artist’s concept and execution, but simultaneously by the plants’ genetic predispositions and the conditions at the site. Chance, time, and human care play a decisive role in what we finally see.
BN 1999

Work formats: archive: Archive: International Artists Working with Living Plants, Artists’ Gardens Weimar Office (Büro KünstlerGärten Weimar), invitations, outdoor area in the Villa Haar park, Weimar, planted works, graphic editions I and II, lectures, photo documentation, teaching projects, symposium, exhibitions. Some of the planted artworks in the park at Weimar’s Villa Haar have existed for years and are still being maintained.

Publications
Guide: :gewachsen, ein Führer durch die KünstlerGärten Weimar (:grow, a guide to the Artists’ Garden Weimar)
Project magazine: Grow / Work at the Artists’ Gardens Weimar (wachsen / Arbeit an den KünstlerGärten Weimar)
Archive: International Artists Working with Living Plants
Book: trans | plant—LIVING VEGETATION IN CONTEMPORARY ART
Edited by Barbara Nemitz, published by Hatje Cantz, ISBN 3-89322-971-X
Authors: Peter Herbstreuth, Kim Levin and Barbara Nemitz
The publication features works by 66 international artists and is based upon research compiled within the archive which has formed the backbone of the Artists’ Gardens Weimar project.

Exhibitions:
Barbara Nemitz—Das Schöne leben, Kunstverein Heidelberg 1997, catalog
LA VILLE/LE JARDIN/LA MÉMOIRE, Académie de France à Rome, Villa Medicis, Rome, 2000
In collaboration with ARC/ Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, catalog
Green Space 1, Museum of Tokyo Geijutsu Daigaku University, Toride, Japan 2002, catalog
Artists Gardens Weimar, photo documentation, graphic editions, publications,
Bauhaus Today, Kunstverein Jena 2009, catalog
:Grown, Artists’ Gardens Weimar, graphics, publications, exhibition, Villa Haar, Weimar, 2002
ECO vs. EGO—a juxtaposition, Eigenheim Gallery, Berlin 2019

Artists’ Gardens Weimar Office
Bauhaus Universität Weimar, 1996
Photo: Sabine Ondracek
© Barbara Nemitz and VG Bildkunst Bonn

Artists’ Gardens Weimar
Invitation cards
1995-2003
© artists and photographers

Artists’ Gardens Weimar / Office
Exhibition:
LA VILLE/LE JARDIN/LA MÉMOIRE
Académie de France à Rome,
Villa Medicis, Rome, 2000
In collaboration with ARC/
Musée d’Art Moderne
de la Ville de Paris, catalog
Photo: Barbara Nemitz,
© Barbara Nemitz and VG Bildkunst, Bonn

Artists’ Gardens Weimar / Office
Exhibition:
Green Space 1, Museum of
Tokyo National University
of Fine Arts and Music,
Tokyo Geijutsu Daigaku,
Toride, Japan 2002
Photo: Barbara Nemitz,
© Barbara Nemitz and VG Bildkunst, Bonn

Project magazine: Grow
Work at the Artists’ Gardens Weimar
Number 1-6, 1995-2002
Ed. Barbara Nemitz

wachsen (Grow)
Logo
© Copyright Barbara Nemitz and VG Bildkunst Bonn

trans|plant–LIVING VEGETATION IN CONTEMPORARY ART
Ed. Barbara Nemitz, Hatje Cantz publisher
Authors: Peter Herbstreuth, Kim Levin and Barbara Nemitz
The publication features works by 66 international artists and is based upon research compiled within the archive which has formed the backbone of the Artists’ Gardens Weimar project.

trans| plant
LIVING VEGETATION IN
CONTEMPORARY ART
Hatje Cantz Verlag,
Ostfildern 2000
Texte von
Kim Levin
Peter Herbstreuth
Barbara Nemitz
Hg. Barbara Nemitz

TRANS Plant Artists’ Gardens Weimar, 1998
Artists working with living plants from left to right:
Meg Webster, Luc Wolff, Michel Blazy, Didier Trenet, Samm Kunce, Henrik Hakansson, Barbara Nemitz, Laura Stein, Dominique Kippelen, Marianne Buttstädt, Michael Stephan, Brigitte Raabe

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