Shadow Garden
Every Wednesday and when weather conditions permit, members of artist collective the Onkruidenier open the gate of the Shadow Garden, the former Belgian monastery garden of the 1972 Floriade. Leave your preconceived ideas about gardening behind and open yourself up to a new perspective on a garden. Follow the research and check opening hours on Instagram.
SOILS – Van Abbemuseum
After two editions in 2020 and 2021, Forever Summer is back at the Van Abbemuseum and part of group exhibition Soils. This exhibition explores a renewed connection with our soil.
IABR – Nature of Hope
With Future Gardening - Speculative Botany the Onkruidenier is participating in 11th edition of the International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam (IABR) with the title Nature of Hope. The biennale takes place from 29 June to 13 October 2024 and includes an exhibition at the Nieuwe Instituut, a public program and Botanical Monuments – green places in Rotterdam.
Future Gardening ~ Speculative Botany
Evolution is taking place everywhere in our environment, and species are developing new methods to move with the changes that can be observed daily. How can we as humans learn to adapt to the changes that reveal themselves to us daily as a crisis? During these workshops we start from the local ecology of Brienenoord Island to look to the future from there. Participants are taking part in a speculative drawing exercise from which a (plant) species emerges that could become established in our urban nature in the near future. The aim is to create a hybrid species between imagination and our surrounding ecology. With Speculative Botany, the Onkruidenier explores with participants how drawing exercises can become a form of radical observation for new entanglements with a changing urban nature.