On Sunday, 16 March 2025, at 12.00, the "Solarceptors" artwork by Rasa Šmite and Raitis Šmits will be exhibited at the Sinclair-Haus Museum, in Bad Homburg, Germany. The artists have been researching plants since 2022 and their artwork is part of the artistic research project "Plants Intelligence". 

The project is based at the Institute of Art Gender Nature at the FHNW Academy of Art and Design Basel and funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation.

About the exhibition: 
We invite you to slow down. To listen. To encounter plants. How often do we walk past them without giving them a glance? How rarely do we remember that our breath, food and clothing connect us to them? We are constantly among plants - let's get to know our neighbors. Let's develop a sense for plants.

The artists in the exhibition “Among Plants” show us plants as living, perceptive beings that form countless connections. Their 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. Some artworks explore how plants have shaped human cultures for centuries, both in Europe and in indigenous communities in South America. Others create plant-human hybrids, exploring how close or distant we feel to plants.

Plants puzzle us because we see little of what they do: How they feed themselves, how they “breathe out” oxygen, communicate with each other - warn each other of pests, for example - or team up with fungi. We cannot perceive with our senses how they react to other living beings, what they sense and why they decide to grow here or there. They are intelligent in their own way and manage their lives at a different speed to us humans. To understand them, we need to slow down, observe and find out what questions we can ask them to learn more about them.

Artists: Felipe Castelblanco, Ursula Damm, Thorben Danke, Maya Deren & Tally Beatty, Mary Delany, Wim van Egmond, Kalle Hamm & Dzamil Kamanger, Eduardo Kac, Kahn & Selesnick, Ernst Kreidolf, Debora Lombardi, Jesse McLean, Julia Mensch, Max Reichmann, Mathilde Rosier, Omi-peah Ryding und Roman Schramm, Scenocosme, Ann Shelton, Rasa Smite & Raitis Smits, Kiki Smith, Una Szeemann, Ayênan Quinchoa Juajibioy, Lois Weinberger

The exhibition “Among Plants” is a cooperation between the Museum Sinclair-Haus and the research project Plants_Intelligence. 

The exhibition is on view from March 16 until August 17, 2025 at the Museum Sinclair-Haus, in Bad Homburg, Germany.  

More information: https://kunst-und-natur.de/museum-sinclair-haus/ausstellungen/pflanzen