Ronald Kolb
Post-Exhibitionary Practice

https://www.m1-hohenlockstedt.de/en/kuratieren/m1-kuratieren-202526/

A process-oriented exhibitionary project exploring ecology and sustainability through four seasonal assemblies, workshops, performances, screenings, installations, and culinary formats at M.1 Arthur Boskamp-Stiftung, Hohenlockstedt.
Artistic Direction: Ronald Kolb

Kindly supported by Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia, Ville de Geneve, Bingo! Projektförderung Schlewsig-Holstein, Kulturprojekte Schlewsig-Holstein, Kunstförderung Kultur Land Schlewsig-Holstein

Artists and researchers include Camilla Berner, Ewen Chardronnet, Field Narratives (Sascia Bailer, Andreas Doepke, hn. lyonga, Lene Markusen), Taro Furukata, Fernando Garcia-Dory (INLAND), Frauke Gerstenberg & Leon Bischinger (Muthesius Kunsthochschule Kiel), Seraina Grupp, Maj Hasager (Malmö Art Academy, Lund University), Emilio Hernández Martínez (Cocina CoLaboratorio) & Dea López (Co.merr), Michael Hiltbrunner, Christian Huck, James Jack, Astrid S. Klein, Lene Markusen, Maya Minder, Meika Mizuno, Eva Hertzsch & Adam Page, Åsa Sonjasdotter, Riikka Tauriainen, Byungseo Yoo, Daniela Zambrano Almidón.

With local experts Wiebke Habbe, Erika Harzer, Raphaela Kuhn & Basti Weber, Inke Magens, Marle Rudolph, Björn Berling and others.

Art as Ecological Practice was a one-year, process-oriented exhibition project at the Arthur Boskamp-Stiftung in rural northern Germany. It examined how contemporary art and expanded exhibitionary formats can contribute to sustainable ways of living and translate evidence-based research into shared knowledge. Moving beyond symbolic representations of nature, the project brought ecological thought into practice through collaborations among artists, scientists, local experts, producers, and communities.

Rather than forming a static exhibition, the project developed through new artworks, situated research, workshops, performances, screenings, cooking events, lectures, and informal encounters. Four seasonal gatherings structured this evolving process: the Spring Assembly, Situating Local Conditions & Contextualizing Culture; the Summer Assembly, Walking, Talking, Working—Queering Landscape & Liquid Ecology; the Fall Assembly, Collecting, Preserving, Enjoying—The Power of Abundance & the Art of Sharing; and the Winter Assembly, Scarcity as Delight & Regenerative Future. Together, they transformed M.1 into a contact zone for exchanging local and translocal knowledge, critically examining ecological interdependencies, and testing collective forms of artistic and everyday practice.