If you are finding it hard to say goodbye to summer, why not delay the inevitable with a last weekend excursion? Your destination is Schloss Lieberose, one of Brandenburg’s largest baroque country houses set in a 25,000-hectare moorland reserve two hours’ drive from Berlin. But this picturesque setting isn’t even the main attraction; that honor goes to the Rohkunstbau, a group art exhibition that is now in its fourth year. Titled “Ich bin Natur. Von der Verletzlichkeit. Überleben in der Risikogesellschaft.” (“I am Nature. Of Vulnerability. Survival in a Risk-based Society”), the show considers how endless consumption is changing our relationship with nature. In the abandoned rooms and corridors of the palace, 20 international artists create tense, foreboding environments. A three-channel video installation by Nina Fischer and Maroan el Sani asks people in different parts of Japan how their lives changed after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and resulting reactor explosion at Fukushima.
Set in a hypothetical, dystopian future, Nadia Lichtig has the conspicuously-named Ziziphus plant perform a monologue about its own history. Meanwhile, Yoko Ono has filled one of the two-storey halls with young trees upon which you can hang your wishes for the future. Rohkunstbau 26 works on a metaphorical plane: more playful than critical, the show works charmingly with the aged surroundings of the palace. You can visit both the house and the exhibition at weekends.
Text: Hanna Komornitzyk / Credit: Freunde des Rohkunstbau e.V.; Claudia Chaseling, VG Bildkunst Bonn, 2021; Luzia Simons, VG Bildkunst Bonn, 2021; Sammlung Archives Nationales Paris / Photos: Jan Brockhaus, Freunde des Rohkunstbau e.V.
Schloss Lieberose, Schloßhof 3, 15868 Lieberose; map
Rohkunstbau 26. “Ich bin Natur. Von der Verletzlichkeit. Überleben in der Risikogesellschaft”, until 03.10.2021
Sat & Sun 12–18h. Tickets can be booked online.
