Weaving Roots

Tapestry installation and public co-weaving at Bärenzwinger, Berlin (March to June 2022)

Claudia Hill

Claudia Hill

Claudia Hill

Juan Saez

Juan Saez

Juan Saez

Weaving Roots brings together two artists with two distinct practices to explore the garden as a site of community building. Claudia Hill’s 125-year-old tapestry loom transforms the interior of the former bear enclosure into a workshop, while the outside open spaces around the enclosure are transformed into a garden by Jared Gradinger.

Antje Bergäuser

Juan Saez

Claudia Hill

Claudia Hill

Claudia Hill

Natsuko Mizushima van der Ree

Hill considers her carpets to be portable gardens and her loom a social-sculpture used as a means to communicate through its physicality. Following the artist’s guidance, a rug and a hammock are created in a collective process during seven public Co-Weaving Sessions.