Overview

LISTENING TO TREES approaches nature in the context of ecological challenges and changing urban living environments. It understands nature as a web of relationships between people and space, as lived experience. Nature that surrounds us and permeates us, something we are constantly part of.

The exhibition brings together works across different practices by Danielle de Picciotto, TREE PROJECT by Zonenkinder and Yurika Saito.

Forms, images, sounds, and materials address different modes of attention and invite a more conscious way of perceiving the environment and our place within it.

An important point of reference is also Japan, informed by a differentiated philosophical and cultural engagement with nature. These perspectives resonate with both artists and visitors.

A program of readings, conversations, performances, and workshops expands on the themes of the exhibition and creates spaces for exchange from different angles.

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Fr 29.05. Opening Event
Performance by Yurika Saito + Vincent Laju, featuring sounds created with natural materials such as wood and stone, along with improvised music on the shakuhachi and cello
Performance by mokume.t, printing with wood on fabric.

Fr 05.06. Reading (in German) “Bäume”
Sabrina Wägerle, translator of „Ki“ by celebrated writer Aya Koda, in conversation with author Michaela Vieser

Sat 06.06. Biophilic Placmaking
Biophilic expert Naho Iguchi invites to a biophilic walk and a fishbowl dialogue

Fr 11.06. Print Release Party
Artist Danielle de Picciotto in conversation with NIOAA co-founder Ryotaro Chikushi

Fr 19.06. Reading (in English) „Sound Atlas“
Author Michaela Vieser + author Isaac Yuen read and talk about Japanese sounds that are portrayed in their book.

Sa 20.06. Summer Solstice Ritual
with biophilic expert Naho Iguchi

Wed 24.06. Aizome Workshop
Indigo upcycling with Etsuko Sakamaki

Thur 25.06. Aizome Workshop
Indigo upcycling with Etsuko Sakamaki

Fr 26.06. Closing Event
Live indigo painting by Vivien Leung

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Concept, Curation, Production: Maike Hank
Curation Yurika Saito: Etsuko Sakamaki