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Enchanted Garden 2023

6th-8th/Oct./2023
Vienna, Austria.

IN COLLABORATION WITH

Kollektiv Kaorle

In 2023, the garden grew in the urban landscape of Ottakring, Vienna. It took the shape of a three-day festivity, filled with an eclectic array of art-forms and perspectives on all that the garden is.

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Enchanted Garden 2024

13th-15th/Sept./2024
Gesäuse Nationalpark

IN COLLABORATION WITH

Nationalpark Gesäuse

Enchanted Garden 2024 took place as a festival in the Gesäuse National Park in Styria. The participants spent a weekend indulging in the intricate connection of art and nature, in the vastness of this never-ending garden. 

The program included short film projections, nature walks, workshops on ecological film development, performances and a concert. The unexpected weather conditions and heavy rains shaped this immersive experience; a mystical, artistically-explorative, and very cosy late-summer winter edition of the garden. 

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Touching Grass Exhibtion 

August 29th, 2025 // Vienna, Austria

We say nature heals. We say “touch the grass”. Nature softens the weight we carry, the invisible heaviness of anxiety, fear, sadness, feelings that we carry around. When you are feeling overwhelmed, down, anxious, or depressed, when everything feels too much, going into nature - touching trees and plants, swimming in the icy cold water, being away from people, disappearing - often brings relief, but it’s not just nature itself that heals and soothes us. In nature, there are no social expectations, no roles, no norms. There are no names, no pronouns, no right ways to behave. Nature offers freedom - from performance, from rules. It allows space to be who we are. Who we want to be. Who we are becoming. Who we imagine ourselves to be. A man, a woman, a person, a living body. Alone and in tune with oneself. No one needs to call a name and it’s enough to just be.

Can we become “one with nature“ again? Have we ever been separated? Do we want to be? Nature has long been seen as a healer, a parent, a caretaker, an infinite giver - do you remember the children’s story “The Giving Tree”? - but we are or can be a part of nature too - see it as our equal, a friend, a lover. Nature cares for us, can we take care of it in return? Can we meet it as our equal? 

2025 version of the Garden was showing itself in the form of an outdoor exhibition, curated by Elias Strebkov and Johanna W. Olivier.

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Touching Grass Exhibtion 2026

August 23rd // Donauinsel (Vienna)

The feeling of someone’s fingers on your skin. Water embracing you as you take your first stroke across the river. Grass beneath your bare feet. Wind brushing through your hair. Gentle, tender, curious. A tattoo on your hip that reminds you of someone. A gentle touch moving up your leg. A kiss pressed against your collarbone. bed sheets left on the floor. Rope marks, imprinted on your wrist. The vibration that moves through you when you see someone you love. Your body relaxing in the arms of someone you trust. A playful tongue grazing your neck. Naughty, cheeky, sweet. A stronger breeze pushes you against a tree.

What is sexuality, and what is sensuality? Where does the line between them lie? Can the line lie?

This year, in the second edition of Touching Grass, we are focusing on sexuality, with nature as a space that can hold our feelings - a quiet, meditative environment where we can listen to our bodies,  where no sounds or movements interrupt that listening. A place where we do not have to wear a mask or perform, where we can simply be ourselves. Together, we will reflect on what sexuality means to us in relation to our own bodies, following the delicate boundary between the sensual and the sexual.

curated by Elias Strebkov and Jona W. Olivier
supported by Ola Plankenauer

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