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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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