Photography and installation

Kerstin Hehmann photographs so-called foreign tree species - inspired by an experimental area of a sustainable forest tree nursery. The area was planted with various trees from abroad from 1954 onwards.
The many different trees offer the opportunity to examine their climate and pest tolerance. They are, so to speak, natural illustrative objects of which species could withstand climate change in this region.
Most of the "foreigners" were already native to northern Germany before and between the ice ages. Many of our fruit trees are also foreign plants. Some of the foreign wood species are superior to the local ones in terms of mass production. The following can be considered naturalized: Douglas fir, Japanese larch, red oak, Sitka spruce, Weymouth pine.
In the photographs, the plants appear like creatures, their form and structure visible and at the same time enigmatic, as if from another world. The Osnabrück artist Kerstin Hehmann will create a spatial installation for the Kunstkubus using her photographs and graphic translations.

The art association art-cube e.V. seeks exchange and contact with the twin city of Osnabrück and invites an artist to Greifswald once a year to present their artistic position.