The apple plays the leading role here: starting from its origins in the Tian Shan Mountains, the exhibition and project in PAVILLON PARZELLE 3 explore the apple as a living being that has been significantly shaped by humans: Through breeding as well as cloning by grafting, apples have been moulded into the shapes we want over the millennia. The varieties that grow in allotment gardens today are also horticultural artefacts and bear witness to very old traditions of interaction between trees and humans.
Since 2013, Paweł Freisler & Antje Majewski's artistic project has revolved around the apple: in the incredible variety of ornaments that Freisler carves into natural apples; in Antje Majewski's films and her paintings of old apple varieties; and in the wealth of collectively organised apple plantations, apple festivals and collected apple recipes, music composed for apples and workshops for children. All of this is based on a written correspondence between Antje Majewski and the Swedish-based Polish conceptual artist Paweł Freisler, who at the beginning set the conceptual condition that the two artists should never meet.
Antje Majewski (*1968 in Mari, Germany) lives and works in Berlin. As an artist, painter, filmmaker and initiator of various research projects, she combines artistic approaches and activism. Her transdisciplinary practice explores political ecologies and possibilities of collaboration between humans and nature.
Paweł Freisler (lives and works in Sweden) is a conceptual artist who decided to emigrate to Sweden after his activities in Poland in the 1960s and 70s. From the very beginning, his work has focussed on passing on and circulating narratives rather than showing material works of art. He has been carving apples for many years.
