Unter Pflanzen - Exhibition
(2025)

We are constantly moving “among plants,” yet we usually pass them by carelessly. The exhibition and magazine Unter Pflanzen (EN: Among Plants) invite us to get to know our green companions in a new way—as active, sentient, acting, in short, intelligent beings. This collaboration between the Museum Sinclair-Haus and the SNSF research project Plants_Intelligence. Learning Like a Plant, led by Yvonne Volkart, marks the final phase of the research project.
Felipe Castelblanco, Julia Mensch, and Rasa Smite have been dedicating themselves to the artistic research into plant intelligence since 2022. Their works, alongside those of Ayënan Quinchoa Juajibioy and Ursula Damm, were created as part of Plants_Intelligence. Learning Like a Plant, and are presented for the first time in this exhibition, together with contributions by additional international artists. The works encourage us to perceive plants with all our senses and to be fascinated by their respective shapes, their abilities, and their ways of populating the world.