project description
The Architecture Museum at the TU Munich showcases the concept of “building in trees” and what it can mean for the environment, climate and society. The exhibition fo-cuses on the often tense relationship between trees as changing organisms with long lifespans and the ever quickening pace of societal developments.
“Trees, Time, Architecture!” presents installations that enable visitors to aesthetically experience the temporal-spatial dimension of trees and the role they play in the global carbon cycle. The exhibition features a walk-through installation and extends onto the lawn in front of the Pinakothek der Moderne. The exhibition provides a view of the entire lifespan of trees relative to the ephemerality of functional and technological aspects in architecture and landscape design. What potentials do trees bring to these human-designed structures, and what contradictions are connected to them? The exhibition addresses these questions from various cultural contexts and climate zones using his-torical and current examples. “Trees, Time, Architecture!” adopts a transdisciplinary ap-proach that incorporates scientific methodology, artistic practices, indigenous knowledge and new technologies. In so doing, the project should show – in response to a changing climate – that architecture is in need of a paradigm shift. It should move away from its goal of creating finished objects to rather designing dynamic processes. What could a productive and long-term, sustainable relationship between trees and buildings look like?
The exhibition at the Architecture Museum will run from March to September 2025. A two-day symposium will take place on location in July 2025. The exhibition programme includes a week of film screenings, readings and workshops, staged as part of the Kun-stareal festival in Munich.
Project management / Curatorial direction: Ferdinand Ludwig, Kristina Pujkilović
Co-curation: Andjelka Badnjar Gojnić
Project coordination: Andres Lepik
Curatorial research advisers: Noël van Dooren, Sonja Dümpelmann
Graphic design: strobo B M Visual Communication (Matthias Friederich)
Exhibition design: Buero Kofink Schels (Simon Jüttner, Sebastian Kofink)
Participating artists: Conceptual Joining (Christoph Kaltenbrunner, Lukas Allner, Daniela Kröhnert), Gavin Munro, Ilkka Halso, Marco Pisano, Mark Primack, OLA Office für Living Architecture, Wilfried Middleton and others
Symposium: Pinakothek der Moderne (Pavilion 333), Munich: July 2025