The Plantiarchy

An exhibition in which plants take the centre stage. It shows us that they are just as active and decisive individuals as humans, not inferior to us at all. All the plants hanging, standing, and acting in the exhibition were made from recycled paper pulp i

Goal

This exhibition invites you to think about our relationship with the natural world. It is a celebration of the beauty and unrecognized power of plants, and a call to action to protect and safeguard our planet. It invites to challenge the dogma that humans are superior in the natural world.

Target audience(s)

Sunflower Soup believes in the power of collaboration which is why the artists wanted to include as many unexpected groups as possible in experiencing and co-creating the exhibition. Students, elderly, climate activists, nature experts, people living in poverty, volunteers, hobbyists and refugees.

Main activities

Make and create together to find that appreciation for the natural world

Team

Artist collective and biotope Sunflower Soup

Het land gaat naar de knoppen, maar pulp kan het stoppen

Sunflower Soup

Relevant dimensions

The dimensions most relevant to this project are: co-creating, imagining, learning, subverting and inspiring

Close

In this exhibition Sunflower Soup talks about the lesser known, unrecognized powers of plants (Learning) and it imagines a world in which plants reign supreme (Imagining). All to let people act in a more gentle, caring way towards the natural world (Inspiring). The works in the exhibition are made through workshops with a wide range of people (Co-creating). By working, thinking and feeling so intertwined as a collective, and distributing the power to create to non-traditional artists, Sunflower Soup challenges the closed-off ways of the art industry (Subverting).

Results Evaluation — What happened?

Observations and insights.