Gathering Moss on worm-like Grounds

From February 2 to July 6, 2025, the exhibition "Gathering Moss on worm - like Grounds" will be on display at the Fruchthalle Municipal Gallery. The gallery is presenting works by artists such as Hannah Cooke, URSULA and Georg Baselitz.

"Gathering Moss on worm-like Grounds" examines the multi-layered connections between art, nature and ecology and links these with a regional perspective. The exhibition addresses key issues relating to water, soil, gardens and regionality. These aspects reflect historical and contemporary perspectives and focus on the responsibility of art in an ecologically challenged world.

The moss serves as a symbol of resilience and interconnectivity. It exemplifies the often hidden but essential processes of nature and invites us to understand mindfulness as the basis for a sustainable and just future. The garden - as an image of care, coexistence and transformation - complements this diversity of themes and encourages a critical examination of institutional practices.

The exhibition questions the role of art institutions as driving forces for ecological and sustainable change and encourages us to rethink both local and global challenges.

In May 2025, installation artist Alex Besta intervenes in the exhibition with an intervention. Her work deepens the dialog about "Kinship" - the close connection between all living beings - and makes the processual character of the exhibition tangible. In this way, "Gathering Moss on worm-like Grounds" becomes a space that opens up perspectives for a more-than-human future.

An interdisciplinary educational program, developed in collaboration with the Rastatt City Museum, accompanies the exhibition. It promotes an open dialog about the ecological challenges of the present and invites visitors to think about sustainable and fair perspectives for the future.

Unyielding Repetition

With her video installation Unyielding Repetition, shown for the first time in Germany, artist Alex Besta builds on the themes of the exhibition "Gathering Moss on worm-like Grounds" and adds historical and material aspects. The starting point of the work are digitally reconstructed fragments of stone sculptures whose surfaces have been marked by centuries of erosion.

The installation, which was created in Paris, interweaves 3D scans, organic material and an atmospheric sound composition to create a poetic narrative about time, decay and the tension between human design and natural processes. Nature does not appear here as a passive backdrop, but as a form-giving force and the silent author of new images and meanings. Unyielding Repetition invites us to pose new questions about artistic heritage, transience and ecological responsibility.

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