Urban Organisms
Käthe Wenzel
- Radical artistic interventions in urban ecosystems: Käthe Wenzel works with weeds, roadkill, and city infrastructures to explore urban landscapes through the lens of Queer Ecologies and adaptive coexistence
- Transdisciplinary practice at the edge of art, activism, and science
- Documenting projects such as the Urban Ink Lab, Signs and Bones, and Sci-Fi Prototypes, the publication shows how urban spaces are hijacked, reimagined, and collectively reused
A weed-based colour laboratory, costumes made of bones, guerilla bill-posting, or subversive alternative street-markings for parking areas: Käthe Wenzel works on the periphery of daily urban life, in urban wastelands and in city systems; she uses weeds, roadkill, and conversation. She explores urban landscapes and “Queer Ecologies” as a transdisciplinary border-crosser with a finely tuned sensory perception for new materials and technologies. She focuses on the adaptability of urban coexistence. Urban Organisms encompasses three groups of works—the Urban Ink Lab, works from Signs and Bones, and Sci-Fi Prototypes. In them, Wenzel hijacks urban spaces: she breaks down wasteland areas in Berlin into micro-localised colour worlds; endangered species live on in constructions made of linen and bones; and chopped-up visual vocabularies of the city are opened up for collective reuse.
Text in English and German.
- Publisher
- Kerber
- ISBN
- 9783735610836
- Publish date
- 10th Aug 2026
- Binding
- Hardback
- Territory
- World excluding Germany, Austria, Switzerland, the USA & Canada
- Size
- 245 mm x 197 mm
- Pages
- 160 Pages
- Illustrations
- 209 color
Distributed by ACC Art Books
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