Institute for Land and Environmental Art

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NEW TEXT
Johannes M. Hedinger
MORE THAN ART
A theatre play in five acts on art in public space and the landscape.

Free PDF:https://ilea.art/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Mehr-als-Kunst-MORE-THAN-ART-2026.pdf

Today: book launch and staged reading
6:00 pm Kultur- und Kongresszentrum Pontresina
Part of Espace Public Art, Kunstwege 2026.

Featuring nine works as protagonists:
- BRUNO & YOYO (2015) by Urs Fischer
- L’HOMME QUI MARCHE I (1960) by Alberto Giacometti
- AVENUE (2011) by Ge**er | Bardill
- HOUSE TO WATCH THE SUNSET (since 2005) by Not Vital
- GREAT WHITE (2018) by Ursula Palla
- SKY STUDIES (2020) by Badel | Sarbach
- BAUPROFILE (2024) by Andrea Todisco
- MITTELPUNKT DER ERDE UND GRENZE DER ATMOSPHÄRE (2020) by Marie Velardi
- I SEE DARKNESS (2020) by Ester Vonplon



Pontresina Cultura
Pontresina
Institute for Land and Environmental Art
Johannes M. Hedinger
Urs Fischer
Ge**er Bardill
Fundaziun Not Vital

Badel/Sarbach
Andrea Todisco
Ester Vonplon
Verlag Scheidegger & Spiess

📣 OPEN CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
Final days. Deadline: August 1
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👣 WALKING. Thinking in Motion
Symposium and Walkshops

🗓 BASEL: September 11–13, 2026
📍 Holzpark, Klybeck, Basel
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WALKING continues this autumn: Following the successful first two edition in Tenna and Zurich, the next editions will take place in Basel-Klybeck, featuring a symposium and wide range of walkshops.
Drawing on Annemarie and Lucius Burckhardt’s concept of promenadology (strollology), or the science of walking, we invite artists, researchers, and walkers to explore walking as a critical, spatial, and artistic practice.

🧭 Formats: Walkshops, performative walks, lecture performances, roundtables, and talks.
👉 Free participation, food at participants’ own expense
👥 Maximum 30 participants
📌 Register by Aug 1, 2026
🔗 Link in bio.
Registration: https://ilea.art/walking-denken-in-bewegung-3/

Curatorial team: Violeta Burckhardt, Johannes M. Hedinger
Organized by: ILEA Institute for Land and Environmental Art, studio erde.
In cooperation with: Holzpark Klybeck, Lokal für Raumbegehung, Lucius & Annemarie Burckhardt Stiftung, Hafechäs, GANNET, Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst Basel FHNW, and others.
Supported by: Lucius & Annemarie Burckhardt Stiftung, Pro Helvetia and others.

Confirmed speakers and walkshop leaders:
•⁠ ⁠Tom Brunner & Katja Reichenstein
•⁠ ⁠Violeta Burckhardt
•⁠ ⁠Clementine Butler-Gallie & Clare Qualmann
•⁠ ⁠Chris Dercon
•⁠ ⁠Babak Fakhamzadeh
•⁠ ⁠Carolin Genz & Henriette Lutz
•⁠ ⁠Johannes M. Hedinger
•⁠ ⁠Deirdre Heddon
•⁠ ⁠Martin Josephy
•⁠ ⁠Marie-Anne Lerjen
•⁠ ⁠Ann Mbuti
•⁠ ⁠Ailin Nolmans
•⁠ ⁠Niklaus Reichle & Ueli Vogt
•⁠ ⁠Markus Ritter
•⁠ ⁠Alona Rodeh
•⁠ ⁠Morag Rose
•⁠ ⁠Núria Rovira & Mel Galley
•⁠ ⁠Julia Rüegger & Patrick Düblin
•⁠ ⁠Soya the Cow
•⁠ ⁠Aylin Tschoepe & Denise Haschke
•⁠ ⁠Unofficial Walking Society AG
•⁠ ⁠Judith Weidmann & Frederic Bron
•⁠ ⁠Léonard Wiesendanger


Tom Brunner Katja Reichenstein Clare Carolin Genz Henriette Lutz Architektin
Research Walkers Dee Heddon Dee Heddon & Misha Myers Ailin Nolmans Alona Rodeh Morag Rose Núria Rovira Terradas 🐛 Mel Galley .for.peripatetic.design Soya the Cow🌱 Denise Haschke Unofficial Hiking Society AG Frédéric Bron

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How can art and culture create new social spaces?
This is one of the central questions explored by Manifesta 16 Ruhr, currently taking place in twelve vacant or repurposed churches across Essen, Duisburg, Bochum, and Gelsenkirchen, Germany.

Together with students from the University of Cologne, we discussed transformation, the future of third places and public spaces, and the role art can play in neighborhoods and processes of social change.
On view until October 4, 2026. Admission is free, and it is definitely worth the trip.


kunst.uni-koeln Johannes M. Hedinger Institute for Land and Environmental Art

images:
1: Bureau Baubotanik Kollektiv, St. Bonifatius - Gelsenkirchen
2-3: Merve Kaplan, St. Bonifatius - Gelsenkirchen
4: Eva Koťátková, Christ König – Bochum
5: Małgorzata Mirga-Tas, Christ König – Bochum
6: St. Ludgerus - Bochum
7-8: CaboSanRoque with FLEXO ARQUITECTURA Kollektiv, St. Ludgerus - Bochum
9-10: Mirosław Bałka, Zuza Golińska, Gethsemane - Bochum
11: Pedro Cabrita Reis, St.Anna - Bochum
12-13: Pınar Öğrenci, St.Anna - Bochum
14-16: Ming Wong, St. Anna – Gelsenkirchen
17-18: Emre Abut, St. Anna – Gelsenkirchen
19: Gülbin Ünlü, Thomaskirche – Gelsenkirchen
20: German Flags in Gelsenkirchen (before they got kicked out of the World Cup)

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How can art and culture create new social spaces?
This is one of the central questions explored by Manifesta 16 Ruhr, currently taking place in twelve vacant or repurposed churches across Essen, Duisburg, Bochum, and Gelsenkirchen, Germany.

Together with students from the University of Cologne, we discussed transformation, the future of third places and public spaces, and the role art can play in neighborhoods and processes of social change.
On view until October 4, 2026. Admission is free, and it is definitely worth the trip.


kunst.uni-koeln Johannes M. Hedinger Institute for Land and Environmental Art

images:
1-2: Penique Productions, St. Josef – Gelsenkirchen
3-4: Havîn Al-Sîndy, St. Josef – Gelsenkirchen
5-6: CaboSanRoque with FLEXO ARQUITECTURA Kollektiv, St. Ludgerus - Bochum
7: Eva Koťátková, Christ König – Bochum
8: Bérénice Gaça Courtin, Christ König – Bochum
9: Katarzyna Kozyra, Christ König – Bochum
10: Mehtap Baydu, Christ König – Bochum
11: Mirosław Bałka, Zuza Golińska, Gethsemane - Bochum
12: Bureau Baubotanik Kollektiv, St. Bonifatius - Gelsenkirchen
13: Judith Hopf, St. Bonifatius - Gelsenkirchen
14-15: Merve Kaplan, St. Bonifatius - Gelsenkirchen
16: Alicja Kwade, St. Marien - Essen
17: Thomaskirche – Gelsenkirchen
18: Gülbin Ünlü, Thomaskirche – Gelsenkirchen
19-20: German Flags in Gelsenkirchen (before they got kicked out of the World Cup)

Join this ZHdK Summer School
> URBAN COMMONS <
Art & Collective Placemaking
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3, 4, 5 September 2026
Block seminar on current ecological and social discourses and practices.

Urban Commons examines collective forms of action between art, everyday life, and urban practice. The central question is how shared action is organized and how it can create agency in everyday life.
A special focus lies on the concept of “commoning”. This refers to processes of collectively producing, using, and caring for shared resources. Commoning enables concrete experiences of participation and agency.
“Placemaking” is understood as a collective practice. Participants work with real situations in urban space. Places are read, used, and transformed together. Decisions emerge through the process and are negotiated collectively.
The module combines theory and practice and introduces concepts from art, collaboration, commons, and more-than-human approaches. Exercises, excursions, conversations with experts, and experimental formats form the basis of the work. We test methods on site and develop a toolbox for our own collective practice.

Instructors:
Johannes M. Hedinger (ILEA) and Violeta Burckhardt (studio erde) + guests
Dates:
Tue 3 Sep, 6 to 9pm / Fri 4 Sep, 9am to 5pm / Sat 5 Sep, 9am to 5pm

Information and registration (until 7 Aug 2026): https://ilea.art/urban-commons/

Johannes M. Hedinger Zurich University of the Arts Institute for Land and Environmental Art Violeta Burckhardt

raumlabor Ernesto Neto

images:
1. Gabriyel Dari: Walkshop EINSC_NITT (2026), after Lucius Burckhardt
2. Bucher/Hedinger: Walking & Knowing. Mit Fischli/Weiss: Haus (1987/2016)
3. Raumlabor: Küchenmonument (seit 2006)
4. Ernesto Neto: Gaia Mother Tree (2018)
5. Verein Tilia: Wanderbaumallee Stuttgart (seit 2019)
6. studio erde: Wilder Platz (seit 2022)
5. Summerschool Logo

ART WALK ZURICH NORTH🚶‍♀️🚶‍♂️
Sunday, June 14, 11:00 🗓️
Duration: 2 hours
Start: MFO-Park, Oerlikon📍
Corner of Elias Canetti-Strasse, 8050 Zurich

Join us for a guided walk through Zurich North exploring public art, urban transformation, and site-specific artistic practice in Oerlikon and Seebach. The walk brings together major works in public space by artists including Fischli/Weiss, Olafur Eliasson, Renée Levi, Yves Netzhammer, Annemie Fontana, Hans Josephsohn, and others.
Along the way, participants will gain insight into the changing urban fabric of Zurich North, including MFO-Park, Oerliker Park, and Max-Bill-Square. We will also visit Labör, Oerlikon’s new experimental community and cultural space, and learn more about ILEA’s work in the field of site-specific art.

Led by:
Johannes M. Hedinger, ILEA, ZHdK
Annemarie Bucher, ILEA, ETH

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Today! - Join the Online Talks (Day 3)
🚶‍♀️WALKING. Thinking in motion.
Symposium & Walkshops
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10.00 CET HEIKO SCHMID      
12.45 CET JAN-NOËL THON
14.30 CET MANUELA MORALES DELANO
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YouTube livestream
https://www.youtube.com//streams
Or via www.ilea.art

Curated by:  and .m.hedinger
Organized by: ILEA  and ,
Supported by: , Lucius & Annemarie Burckhardt Stiftung, a.o.

Full program: https://ilea.art/walking-denken-in-bewegung-3/

     
annemarie

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Today! - Join the Online Talks (Day 2)
🚶‍♀️WALKING. Thinking in motion.
Symposium & Walkshops
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10.00 CET A. DOMSCHKY & M. ZAUGG
11.00 CET DENNIS HÄUSLER 
11.30 CET M. LERJEN & C. RATTI
12.00 CET YOUNG JAE SHIN
13.45 CET JULIA RÜEGGER
14.15 CET GEERT VERMEIRE
16.45 CET NIKOLAUS WYSS
20.00 CET FRANCESCO CARERI
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YouTube livestream
https://www.youtube.com//streams
Or via www.ilea.art
Or Live at .ch and
Full program: https://ilea.art/walking-denken-in-bewegung-3/

Curated by:  and .m.hedinger
Organized by: ILEA  and ,
Supported by: , Lucius & Annemarie Burckhardt Stiftung, a.o.

     
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Today! - Join the Online Talks
🚶‍♀️WALKING. Thinking in motion.
Symposium & Walkshops
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17.15 CET AISLING O’CARROLL
17.45 CET NAZLI TÜMERDEM
20.45 CET ANNEKE LUBKOWITZ
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YouTube livestream
https://www.youtube.com//streams
Or via www.ilea.art
Or Live at .ch and .ethz
Full program: https://ilea.art/walking-denken-in-bewegung-3/

Curated by:  and .m.hedinger
Organized by: ILEA  and ,
Supported by: , Lucius & Annemarie Burckhardt Stiftung, a.o.

     

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🚶‍♀️ Walking is thinking in motion.
Join us in Zurich for 3 days of talks, walks, exchanges and shared reflections on walking as artistic practice, research method and cultural tool.
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WALKING. Thinking in Motion.
Symposium and Walkshops.
5 to 7 June 2026.
Zurich, Oerlikon.
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📌 A few places are still available for attendees and participants.
Apply now with:
✍️ short letter of motivation + 📄 CV
Participation is free of charge.
An administrative fee of CHF 80 applies.
Food and drink vouchers are included.
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We’re happy to announce all contributors for the Zurich edition:
Annemarie Bucher .annemarie
Violeta Burckhardt
Francesco Careri
Sharon Chan .sharon
Gabriyel Dari
Anke Domschky
Fabian Gutscher
Dennis Häusler
Johannes M. Hedinger .m.hedinger
Charles Kwong
Marie-Anne Lerjen
Anneke Lubkowitz
Manuela Morales Délano
Mona Neubauer
Aisling O’Carroll /
Jana Orb .ch/
Ella Prokkola
Julia Rüegger
Heiko Schmid
Young Jae Shin
Franziska Spring
Jan-Noël Thon
Nazli Tümerdem
Geert Vermeire
Moritz Wahl
Nikolaus Wyss
Maxime Zaugg
Mingyue Zhang
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Full program:
www.ilea.art

Curated by: , .m.hedinger
Organization: ILEA , 
Cooperations: .ch, .ethz , DSI Community Gaming, and others
Supported by: Lucius & Annemarie Burckhardt Stiftung, and others