Forest Research Platform

Forest Research Platform is a multi-year research initiative by Christl Mudrak located in the Krämerwald near Grünefeld in Havelland. Interactive processes involving collaborators, participants, as well as animals and plants, serve in this newly founded research project to reveal authorship as a connecting and communicative element.

In a forest shaped and managed by human hands, the methods and principles of nonviolence towards all forms of life will be explored and reflected upon through artistic means. Imagine, for a moment, that all beings and substances in this place were regarded as equal from a human perspective – what implications might this have for our actions and ways of coexisting?

Throughout the multi-year project, international artists will be invited to create permanent works based on the premise of coexistence in nonviolence. In parallel, regular guided tours, workshops for students and enthusiasts, as well as performances, interventions, and lectures will offer both the public and the artists diverse insights into the exhibition's theme.

On the topics of sustainability, the environment, climate issues, living in nature and working in collaboration, the publications of the contributing artists to this platform will be on display: Kirsten Pfalz (artist book series on environmental pollution and sustainability), Klara Hobza's "On slaughter", Christl Mudrak "Eros" (initial for this forest project), Andreas Sell "Alliances of People" (on collective work), Ella Ziegler "Holy Shit" (on the more ecological handling of our excrement) and others.