Lois Weinberger, Spur, 2015 @museum.de

Lois Weinberger (born 1947 in Stams, Tyrol, † 2022 in Vienna) has an aisle drawn through the park. It crosses the stone-paved paths twice, cut through the lawn surface by a digger. The aisle ends in a heap of debris, the spoil of lawn, rubble and earth contrasting with the perfection of the park landscape. Weinberger’s aisle is cut and delicate groove, and at the same time a road for invasive plants. In his work, which reached a greater
audience through a planting at Kassel main station during documenta 10, Weinberger deals with so-called ruderal species. Mostly referred to as weeds, they colonise fallow ground, cracks in the tarmac, heaps of rubble or
undeveloped peripheries. In “well-kept” gardens they are normally weeded out. But Weinberger creates a
hierarchical shift with a political purpose. He sees the ruderal plants as migrants, forced to survive under poor
conditions. They suffer the same fate as people who lost their homes.

Lois Weinberger

Spur, 2015

Soil, plants

Courtesy of Studio Lois Weinberger