Aurora Climate Garden
While working on the spruce trees project I got to know a bit more about Auróra’s Climate Garden. You can walk past it and not even realize all the effort put into creating and maintaining it, all by a group of volunteers who understand that we need more green than concrete if we want to live in liveable cities. The idea of planting a mini forest in a parking lot (and not using any of the city resources to water it!) is something any city should learn from. I talked to Mark Richards about the reasons behind creating the garden, permaculture, the state of the climate and everything around it. The interview is part of the exhibition at CEU’s Nyitott Galéria and now you can also read it HERE.
Exhibition: TALES OF THE NORWAY SPRUCE AND OTHER TREES IN TIME OF ECOLOGICAL CRISIS
The exhibition of international and Hungarian artists began in a garden in Budapest, examining the issues surrounding the decline of a well-known tree species, the Norway spruce. This exhibition, which expands on the local, Eastern European context, presents the complex ecological, horticultural, and social context of tree loss through stories about trees that highlight contemporary issues of the human-to-more-than-human relationship. At the same time, the research-based exhibition enriches the artist; playful-critical works with local activist-experimental examples that provide models for new tree-replacement strategies or urban opportunities for creating functioning ecosystems.
Opening:
17. October, 2024, Thursday 6 p. m. Opening Performance by Zahra Fuladvand Greeting Speech: Flóra László, CEU
The exhibition is open:
17. October – 30. October, 2024. Open Gallery CEU
Budapest, 1051. Nádor utca 11
Artists: Clarissa Butelli (BRA), Mária Chilf (HU), Erekle Chinchilakashvili (GE), Zahra Fuladvand (IR),
Kitti Gosztola (HU), Daniela Jauregui (MEX), Ania Jopp (PL), Hanan Saif (SY)
Curator: Tünde Varga
Curator assistents: Laura Pass, Kira Ferenczi, Juilanna Hemrik, Imola Sudár, Barbara Faragó, Anna Zsibrita
Contributors:
Márton Nyerges, expert,
Mark Richards, Auróra climate garden,
Iván András Bojár, 10 million tree, miyawaki miniforest,
Borhy Balázs, expert
Visual identity
Zoltán Visnyai