The Flower Power Festival in Munich – Munich

The Flower Power Festival wants to turn Munich into a riot of flowers over the next eight months. From February 3rd, the festival invites you to exhibitions, installations, performances, concerts, films, theatre, puppetry, discussion formats, workshops, guided tours, hikes, dance events and many other events, including many for children and families. Art spaces, lecture halls, greenhouses, laboratories, restaurants and cinemas, but also parks, gardens and squares are used.

There is a lot to look at, a lot to touch and participate in and some extremely instructive. Because it’s not just about the aesthetics of flowering in art and culture, but also about aspects such as sustainability, climate change, biodiversity and habitats. Above all, this “celebration of nature in the city” should be great fun.

The main initiators are the Kunsthalle Munich, the Botanical Garden in Nymphenburg, the Natural History Museum Bavaria/Biotopia Lab and the Gasteig, which makes the HP8 the festival center. More than 200 providers have now registered for 500 events. And the program keeps growing, the website (www.flowerpowermuc.de) is constantly updated. Here is a small selection.

exhibitions

Many exhibitions await the visitors of the Flower Power Festival, above all Flowers Forever in the Kunsthalle, which – like at the Faust Festival five years ago – had the brilliant idea of ​​turning an event into a whole festival. The lavishly staged show is dedicated to the art and cultural history of the flower from antiquity to the present day and shows 170 works of art, design, fashion and science. You can also wander through Rebecca Louise Law’s installation, which she created from flowers collected and dried by residents of Munich, or have a psychedelic experience in Miguel Chevalier’s Extra-Natural installation. And of course, as always, the Kunsthalle offers an extensive accompanying program. (Kunsthalle Munich, February 3rd – August 27th)

Juli Gudehus produces particularly strange blossoms in her exhibition The nature of the thing in the Botanical Garden, which is taking part for the first time and is offering around 40 events. Gudehus’ bouquet of “Tafelwasserlilie, Heckendose, Orchideo” consists of plastic bottles, cups and caps – a reminder to the throwaway society. (Botanical Garden Munich-Nymphenburg, 3.2.-4.10.)

How does the past smell? You can find out at Lost Scents at the Biotopia Lab, where art meets biology. On granite stones, one can sniff the smells of a bush originally native to Africa, for example, and get closer to the habitat of the plant through imagery. (Biotopia Lab, until March 6th)

The Goetz Collection invites you to an intervention in the Porzellan Manufaktur Nymphenburg with the Flower projection autumn by Peter Fischli & David Weiss. Her two-channel slide installation, whose abundance of flowers grows wild thanks to crossfades, meets the floral designs in porcelain. (Porcelain Manufactory Nymphenburg, 3.2.-18.3.)

The exhibition has already opened Symmetry of nature – nature of symmetry by photographer Daniel Kreissl in the Czech center. She shows that symmetry is not a human invention, but is also common in nature – in flowers and leaves, snowflakes, butterflies or starfish. (Czech center, until 3.3.)

From the surrounding area, for example, the Buchheim Museum of Fantasy in Bernried is participating with the exhibition Flores y Mucheres. She deals with flowers and women and the change in the image of women in art. (Buchheim Museum of Fantasy Bernried, until February 26th)

Miguel Chevalier transforms a Ludwig Beck shop window on Marienplatz into a luminous paradise. Extra natural is the name of the magical light art by the Franco-Mexican pioneer of virtual and digital art. (Ludwig Beck, February 1 – June 18)

The interdisciplinary group exhibition is inspired by lyrical contributions So luxurious in the leaf maze in the gedoc. Here the variety of beguiling scents is to be translated into music and art. (Gedok Gallery, February 4th – March 24th)

In the Seidlvilla, six representatives of the Ammersee Artists’ Group are dedicated to the topic of Flower Power. bloom is the name of the exhibition dedicated to the growth and decay of plants. (Seidlvilla, 11.3.-28.4.)

The Eres Foundation sets a counter-accent to all the beauty. Under the title Evil Blossoms In her new project space, she presents beauty and evil from art and science. On display are plants such as the poisonous hemlock, parasitic fungi and plant-killing pests that cleverly disguise their maliciousness. (Eres Projects, March 2-31)

Watch the Munich artist Martin Blumöhr how he lets a huge, grotesquely enchanted city garden bloom on four canvases in the live painting event Hortusurbis. Blumöhr stops on several days and at three different locations between May and September. In the end, he will exhibit the total work of art at a central location in Munich. (Five Courtyards, HP8, State Archaeological Collection, May to Sep.)

The Gasteig in the HP8 will not only be the festival center, there are of course also numerous activities and events as well as interactive installation art throughout the festival in Hall E floral. The AI-controlled work of art was created by the We Are Video collective. This should be great fun for everyone, because the installation reacts to the people who enter it. (HP8, 3.2.-7.10.)

dance and party

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Let’s stay with the Gasteig in the HP8. Here in the Long Night of Music Not only is there a lot of music, you can also dance here – in the style of the flower children. For this purpose, the cultural center presents, among other things, its own flower power stage. (HP8, 6.5.) This will probably only be topped by the biggest flower power party of the year in terms of dance technology: Dance the Gasteig, which this year will be all about seventies sounds. And regardless of whether it’s on a plateau or in Jesus slippers, you’ll dance until your soles burn. (HP8, 3.6.)

The same applies to the Künstlerhaus on Lenbachplatz. That devotes its traditional jester ball also the motto Flower Power. And whether you have “Hair”, or Woodstock Abba takes as a role model, or simply comes as a Pril flower – the main thing is wild, colorful and flowery and with a lot of staying power. (Künstlerhaus, 4.2.)

She proves that dancing can be completely different Dance performance Flora by and with Matteo Carvone. The experimental dance project in the former industrial hall of the HP8 deals with the relationship between man and nature. (HP8, 16.5.)

music and theatre

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The Orchestra Academy of the Friends and Sponsors of the Munich Philharmonic will be housed in the Kunsthalle chamber concert give. However, it has not yet been decided which pieces will be played in the middle of the “Flowers Forever” exhibition. (Art Hall, 30.3.)

However, the program is known at Horizons evening the Munich Symphony Orchestra as part of the Flower Power Festival. Among other things, Gregor A. Mayrhofer’s “Recycling Concerto” for recycling percussion and orchestra will be performed. The game is played – beautifully sustainably – on instruments made of plastic bottles, flowerpots and coffee capsules. (Prinzregententheater, 10.5.)

Flowers were a popular subject in musical compositions of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Both sound flowers Students from the Hochschule für Musik und Theater will interpret plays that – in keeping with the location – are dedicated exclusively to the topic. (Botanical Garden, 23.5.)

Of course, the musical should not be missing from Flower Power – above all that Hippie Musical “Hair”which not only celebrates free love, but is also a statement against war – Love and Peace forever! (German Theater, July 14) And of course just as appropriate to the times is the Rock opera “Tommy”by the Munich band Tommy Who! is brought to the stage. (German Theater, June 10)

For children

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Of course, many of the events are also suitable for children and families. Explicitly aimed at children The Gasteig is buzzing! This time, the two-day music event with workshops, hands-on activities and mini-concerts will be dedicated entirely to the theme of flowers. (HP8, 3.3.)

The is about hands-on science participation programs in the Museum Man and Nature/Biotopia Lab. In workshops, the young researchers can process edible flowers or explore the biodiversity of algae under the microscope. (Biotopia Lab, 3.2.-7.10.) The photo competition is about having fun with photography and being interested in nature Nature in focus. Many children and young people took part. The winning pictures will be shown in a special exhibition. (Natural History Museum Bavaria, 14.2.-16.4.)

A VR experience not only for children is the Insect Flight Birdly. For a few minutes you can use all the senses of insects like a butterfly and explore an ecosystem with plants, insects, birds, snails and mammals in flight. (Biotopia Lab, 3.2.-7.10.)

Outside

Nature in the city means, of course, a lot of flower power outdoors. Südpark – the Munich Biennale of Natural Art is dedicated to people and nature with 16 art projects for 20 weeks. Natural art to walk on and experience in the forest and for the forest – a sustainable land art project in the middle of the city. (Sendlinger Forest, 27.5.-14.10.)

The Isar floodplains are not far away, but from April it should be even greener around the Gasteig HP8. The collective “Die Städtische” opens on the square cultural island. Creatively designed wooden seating opens up the possibility of creating raised beds, greening the square and letting the flower power feeling on the cultural area grow even more green and blooming. (Gasteig HP8, 15.4.-7.10.)

It is about agriculture and biodiversity in the city Flower farmer Munich, a walking route along urban farmland. Along five themed stations you can learn new things about the close connection between agriculture and biodiversity and think ahead. (Agriculture adventure trail, 16.5.-31.10.)