May 27, 2026

Exhibition at Kommunale Galerie Berlin
curated by Sophia Pompéry with Barbara Höffer and Norbert Wiesneth

Hohenzollerndamm 176
10713 Berlin
www.kommunalegalerie-berlin.de

The exhibition displays an excerpt from my current project About an Undisciplinable Tree.
The focus of the exhibition lies on the sculptural aspects of the dwarf beech, the question of authorship, and whether and when planting a tree counts as art.

The project focuses on the rare dwarf beech (Fagus sylvatica tortuosa), which is completely useless for any industrial use because of its weird, twisted growth form. For that reason, its forests were destroyed in Germany in the 19th century through large-scale clearing. Today, the only remaining large populations can be found around Torna Hällestad (Sweden) and Verzy (France).

As part of the project, a young dwarf beech was planted at Volkspark Wilmersdorf in Berlin.


Opening reception: May 27, 2026, 6 pm
with works by:
Thomas Behling, Anna Borgmann, Wiebke Elzel, Catherine Rose Evans, Tom Früchtl, Noa Heyne, Csilla Klenyánski, Gabi Schillig, Morton Straede

Change of Perspective: July 2, 2026
with works by:
Wiebke Elzel, Catherine Rose Evans, Simon Faithful, Noa Heyne, Kennedy+Swan, Csilla Klenyánski, Nadja Marcin, Sophia Pompéry, Natalja Stachon, Ya Wen Fu

Walk and Talk on Forests and the Dwarf Beech
July 8, 2026, 5:00–8:00 pm,
with Wiebke Elzel, Dr. habil. Manfred Forstreuter, Dr. Dorothea von Hantelmann
We’ll meet at the dwarf beech in Volkspark Wilmersdorf and walk from there to the Kommunale Galerie. The talk begins around 6:00 pm.

Link to the location of the dwarf beech