I think I’m standing in the forest: “The Viewing Temple” by Kim Goodwin on the 2018 forest art trail
Image: Rainer Wohlfahrt
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Despite the corona pandemic and the Ukraine war, the tenth Biennale is being planned in Darmstadt in the forest area at Böllenfalltor. But that’s not all: tree protectors would like to ban the art mile from the forest entirely. The motto “Art Nature Change” issued for 2022 fits the tricky situation.
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Darmstadt ⋅ Climate change, social change, societal change and digital change: These are the themes of the time, and they should also be the focus of the tenth Darmstadt Biennale, which, according to the announcement, will be held in late summer as usual around the forest art path at the Böllenfalltor will. However, due to the corona, the group of artists involved is “probably smaller than in previous years,” says curator Ute Ritschel, who has been responsible for the art exhibitions in the middle of nature since 2002. Because the objects set up and presented in the Darmstadt Forest between Böllenfalltor and Ludwigshöhe usually remain standing, there are currently 37 exhibits from earlier shows to be discovered along the approximately three-kilometre-long path.
