Installations & Performances

Weaving Roots

Exhibition and public Co-Weaving sessions at Bärenzwinger, Berlin, 25 March – 5 June 2022

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.

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.

Claudia Hill

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.

Love is As Love Does, 2022 Textile, plant dye, plastic, feathers, rubber, cotton yarn Two panels: 180cm x 88 cm

Claudia Hill

Claudia Hill

Juan Saez

Juan Saez

Just Trest, 2022 Plants, acrylic paint, cotton yarn 250 x 210 cm

Where the Sea Goes to Rest, 2021 Textile, plants, acrylic paint, leather, cable, glass, shell, cotton yarn Two panels: 250 x 80 cm

Co-Weaving, 2021 Video 18 min

Weaving Roots is curated by Malte Pieper and Maja Smoszna.