Gabriela Oberkofler: Apit Étoilé - A Growing Archive: Cat. Villa Merkel Esslingen (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9783864423468)

Elisabeth Pircher trained in the areas of braiding, permaculture, and wildflower floristry. Elisabeth Pircher lives with and in her permaculture garden in southern Tyrol. Ever since 2017, she has been presenting courses in the aforementioned areas. Moreover, she designs decorations for various occasions and enjoys sharing her acquired knowledge with others. Mathias von Mirbach, an innovative pioneer in the field of agricultural solidarity in Germany, is a master agriculturalist and has been active since 1995 as a co-founder of the Kattendorfer Hof near Hamburg. There he is responsible for farming, the raising of cattle, and commercial management. Christiane Mennicke-Schwarz is art historian, curator, and has been the director of the Kunsthaus Dresden since 2003. She has realized a large number of exhibitions on international contemporary art. Moreover, together with her team she developed diverse formats ranging from the classic group exhibition all the way to artistic interventions in rural and urban spaces, including allotment gardens. Marlies Ortner is the founder of the The Therapy Garden and a specialist for permaculture. Moreover, she is a representative of the 'Garden of Diversity' at the E.R.D.E. 'Austrian Institute for Applied Eco-Education.' In her text, she presents a retrospect of almost thirty years of vigorous involvement with all sorts of seed stores in her Garden of Diversity, and she elucidates issues involving the basic principles and practice of seed-gardening. Gabriela Oberkofler, born in Bolzano in 1975, is a German-Italian artist, she lives and works in Stuttgart. Her central artistic theme is nature and its preservation from imminent destruction. With the growing project Mobile Seed Archive, she sets a sign against the seed giants and shows possibilities how their certification and power striving can be countered by aspects of the grassroots movement. Jan Sneyd is the expert in the Swabian variety of wheat known as 'Dickkopf-Landweizen' taught at the Hochschule fu¨r Wirtschaft und Umwelt in Nu¨rtingen-Geislingen. He conducts research into old, regional varieties of grains. Jan Sneyd shares responsibility for multiyear measures for recultivating old varieties in Baden-Wu¨rttemberg. In the context of processing their yields, he collaborates with the Ba¨ckerhaus Veit in Bempflingen. Harald Gasser cultivates on his mountain farm at the southern Tyrolean site of Barbian unusual rarities from the garden of nature. With some eight hundred forgotten or uncommon varieties of fruit and vegetables, he makes his remarkable contribution to the preservation and protection of biodiversity. Moreover, he works to prevent the disappearance of old species. Harald Gasser promotes harmony between nature, land and culture. Before the outbreak of the Corona pandemic, he had two or three employees who assisted him in working on the farm, which consists of four hectares. Since 2001, Andreas Baur is director of the Villa Merkel, Galerie der Stadt Esslingen, which he has shaped together with his team through exhibitions and publications as an institution for current international contemporary art. There he has supervised projects with such artists as Mark Dion, Darren Almond, Melanie Smith, Willie Doherty, and Emily Jacir; in addition, he has developed the concepts for thematic group exhibitions. Together with his team, he established the format GOOD SPACE. Roman Lenz is the dean at Hochschule fu¨r Wirtschaft und Umwelt Nu¨rtingen-Geislingen and also a co-founder of the 'Gene Bank, ' a network of variety-rescuers as well as promoters of the diversity of crop plants with a focus on Baden-Wu¨rttemberg. His work focuses on applied research into ecology and agriculture, the calculation of regional and communal ecological balance sheets, and the development of course modules for environmental and agricultural information technology. Since 2007 Irina Zacharias, a passionate tomato-gardene