Golden traces
site-specific installation
Artspring Berlin

Opening Sunady 11th May 2025 _ 12pm
Duration 11th May 2025 11th June 2025

Gartenanlage Bornholm I & II 
Björnsonstraße 5, 10439 Berlin
Parzelle 108

This site-specific installation in Bohnholmer Gardens I, Berlin, explores the relationship between nature, perception, and value through a series of subtle, poetic interventions. Created directly within the orchard landscape, the work uses natural materials found on-site—stones, branches, and tree trunks—which are gently transformed through the application of gold leaf.

These minimal gestures serve as visual interruptions in the landscape—moments of reflection that invite the viewer to reconsider the aesthetic and symbolic value of natural elements often overlooked in everyday life. The use of gold, traditionally associated with wealth and permanence, highlights the contrast between cultural constructs of value and the quiet transience of organic matter.

Situated within a context of home garden culture, where human control and natural growth often coexist in tension, the work draws attention to the delicate balance between landscape design and natural processes. Rather than dominating or aestheticizing nature, the intervention remains responsive to its environment—changing with light, weather, and the passage of time.

By introducing an element of the sacred into the ordinary, this environmental art installation invites audiences to reflect on how we value not only art and nature, but also the spaces and communities in which they intersect. It becomes a contemporary gesture of gratitude—a quiet act of care that redefines the boundaries between art, ecology, and public space.

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