Exactly 40 years ago, at the Documenta 7 in Kassel, Joseph Beuys began his campaign "7000 oaks / urban forestation instead of city administration" by planting a tree on Friedrichsplatz and placing a basalt stele next to it. This was the prelude to one of the most spectacular, visionary and at the same time most enduring actions by this artist. It was not until five years later, when Beuys had died in the meantime, that the last of the 7000...
40 years ago, at Documenta 7 in Kassel, Joseph Beuys began his campaign "7000 oaks / urban forestation instead of city administration" by planting a tree on Friedrichsplatz and placing a basalt stele. On the occasion of Beuys' 100th birthday in 2021, the art collector Heiner Friedrich launched the series "Oak planting in honor of Joseph Beuys". 64 trees are to be planted throughout Bavaria, one for each year of Beuys' life. Now, on the initiative of the Meta Theater...
It's good that an oak tree is finally being planted in Polling. Not just any old one, but this Saturday at eleven o'clock an original Beuys oak tree and its basalt stele will be buried on the church square near the Bachbrücke.Just a reminder: the original project was called 7000 oaks, and it was Beuys' contribution to Documenta 7. The man in the hat planted the first oak in Kassel in 1982, and the campaign ended with the planting of...
