We kick off Ruth Buchanan's work A garden with bridges spine, stomach, throat, ear for the New Patrons of Moenchengladbach with a three-part workshop series starting in June In collaborative formats, Ruth Buchanan will introduce the content of the commission and the center points of the patrons group.
Topics such as work and working life, health and movement, experience of self and other come up in the workshops and enable a temporary coming together of different groups and people on the Abteiberg in Moenchengladbach.
The events take place as a cooperation of the Kunststiftung im Museum Abteiberg with the Arbeitslosenzentrum Moenchengladbach e. Free of charge, in German and English, registration at schaum neueauftraggeber. Wild plant workshop with Caroline Pekle in the garden of the Arbeitslosenzentrum Moenchengladbach e. These sessions are an opportunity to reconsider the arc of developing a community garden, the process that this entails and the relationships this process engenders—relationships toward a community but also toward ourselves.
In a location requiring regeneration on many levels, the site as historically loaded with authoritarianism, and as a reflection of a city that has faced radical transition due to changes in industrial processes, late capitalism, and shifts in the way we use our cities. The workshop welcomes two garden practitioners to share their experiences and knowledge with the unemployment center garden users and their community and connects with local permaculture practitioner Meike Koppmann who leads EWILPA.
Kobe Matthys is an artist from Brussels and a member of the collective Zenne Garden, a regenerative community garden project in a former industrial zone of Brussels. Caroline Pekle is a holistic practitioner living in Northern Bavaria. She will lead a hands-on session where she introduces us to several plants growing on the site and the many benefits they can offer us. Where does my body belong?
