Lois & Franziska Weinberger

Since documenta X (1997), the Austrian artist Lois Weinberger has held a key position in the artistic discourse on the idea of nature. For his documenta project, installed at the Kassel Main Station, Weinberger planted fast-growing plants (so-called ruderal vegetation) from Eastern and Southern Europe on a disused railway track. The work attracted great international attention, and the plants were viewed as ”immigrant plants” – with reference to European immigration policies.

Since 1999, the artist has been collaborating with Franziska Weinberger. Their numerous works – public installations, photographs, slides, models, drawings, archives and texts – question our socially-determined view of nature. The retrospective exhibition at Kunsthallen Brandts Klædefabrik is divided into four parts: On the Rim, Model, The Garden, and Realized and Unrealized Public Works. The exhibition area will include the roof terrace on top of Kunsthallen’s new Passage Building.