Flora | Fauna

Carolina del Pilar
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is a visual artist with Colombian roots living in Berlin.
Her research and drawing process is reminiscent of an archaeologist who examines layer after layer to reveal information about the specific material. Her works are subtle in nature and offer a contemplative space that creates a dialogue between the viewer and the material.

The proposal I would like to present for the exhibition in the
garden of Lobe Block is an artificial object which subtly and poetically
seeks to capture the essence of nature appropriating or reappropriating the space in order to unfold.
It is an amorphous object that, at first sight evokes or reminds of an organic form and hides inside a colorful explosion of life: flowers trying to grow by breaking or deforming the lines of the threads of the fabric, from which capsules of earth are enveloped with flower seeds. With time they become a colorful carpet.

Tahnee Godt
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Tahnee Godt explores a contemporary concept of monumentality and the construction of memory through material. Defence on the one hand and vulnerability on the other hand correspond to a state of porosity – a permeable membrane. The ephemeral elements in these permanent materials stand for an ambivalence between fragility and eternity.

An organic web, bony, rigid and prickly, they form a fortress, palisades devoid of any function.
The materials of the individual elements have their origin in sand and earth and solidify from the shapeable original state into cold, solid bodies. Between origin and plasticity, the works refer to the fundamental process of life: a juxtaposition of the immanent in the material and the transcendent reality. The techniques that sculpted them – dug out forms, castings, assembled parts – suggest the interplay of absence and presence. Form and material create an archaic moment of the past and decay. Because both in the manufacturing process and in the condition itself, the memory lies in the material, a monument to the traces left in the material.

The work is made site specific for the Lobe Block.

Jana Kießer
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lives and works as a freelance photographer & artist in Berlin.
After graduating from Ostkreuzschule für Fotografie in Berlin in 2018 she is currently studying Art in Context at UdK Berlin.

Jana Kiesser works with the archive of her grandmother Elisabeth,
artist and graphic designer (1936-2021). Elisabeth left more than 250 watercolors, sketches, clay sculptures and painted objects made of wood, silk scarves and illustrated books.
After her death, Jana found a close connection and similarity in her photographs and her grandmother‘s paintings. She began to combine the works and will continue to explore the connection between women, nature and art with this project.

For Lobe Block Jana Kießer presents a combination of poppy works – Rooftop Flag: poppy watercolour of Elisabeth Kießer, printed on flag fabric / Lobe garden: poppies photograph of Jana Kießer in the garden bed, printed on hard foam board

Johann C. Muños
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is a transdisciplinary practitioner from Bogotá, COL, whose work spans drawing, photography, sculpture, aural installations (esp., Noise), intersectional ethnomusicology, and pedagogy as social practice.

Muñoz aims to promote healing from historical trauma by articulating Historical Memory. Muñoz‘s work delves into how individuals and communities reconstruct their identities in the aftermath of mass-level traumatic events, mainly focusing on the Global South.

Muñoz especially harnesses the potentiality of Noise for its disruptive, unsettling, and disorienting nature to evoke „unforgetting.“

Green Crocheting

Tsai Fu-Ho: chrocheting a sponge using grass to make a ‘wild dishwashing scrub’ (sponge)

Most of Fuhe‘s artwork is crocheted and her aim is to bring art to life. In this workshop, instead of making a piece of art, she will guide participants in crocheting an eco-friendly dishwashing scrub (sponge) that is both functional and beautiful.