Artist in Residence of Andreas Greiner

I have been following Andreas´ practice for a while, before I had the opportunity to collaborate with him at Kranich Museum. His work on site engaged with the area surrounding the museum building itself, in particular the diversity and history of the trees in the park. His interest has been fueled by the events around the Hambacher Forest: one of the last remaining larger sections of a coherent forest that has been slowly taken over by the exploitation due to open-cast lignite mining. Sparked by the 2018 demonstrations against the destructions, and in a bid to rescue part of the remaining forest, Greiner together with the artist Paul Rohlf decided to extract some of the young hornbeams from the forest and nourish them until their perfect second habitat could be identified. This is how “Urs”, one of the young hornbeams has been planted on the grounds of Hessenburg in 2019.