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Institute for Land and Environmental Art

Since 2020 it is based at Berghotel Alpenblick in Tenna in the Safiental valley of Graubünden. The last edition was titled "LEARNING FROM THE EARTH".

ILEA is a competence and research center in the field of art & ecology and a think & do tank for socio-ecological transformation through art and culture. - Exhibitions, research projects, publications, workshops, symposia and residencies 🏔️🌱🌍 The Institute for Land and Environmental Art (ILEA) is a center for competence and research in art, ecology and creative industries in the peripheral Alpine

region that is currently being established. Since 2016, the otudoor Biennale ART SAFIENTAL and the international summer school ALPS ART ACADEMY, both on the topic of LAND and ENVIRONMENTAL ART take place every second year. In 2020 ILEA opened permanent rooms, a residency, research facilities and indoor exhibitions in Berghotel Alpenblick in Tenna. www.ilea.art
www.artsafiental.ch
www.alpsartacademy.com

06/09/2026

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See you all next weekend in Basel for 3 days of talks, walks, exchanges and shared reflections on walking as artistic practice, research method and cultural tool.
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👣 WALKING. Thinking in Motion
Symposium and Walkshops

🗓 September 11–13, 2026
📍 Holzpark, Klybeck, Basel
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We’re happy to announce all contributors for the Basel edition:

Frédéric Bron Frédéric Bron
Tom Brunner Tom Brunner
Violeta Burckhardt Violeta Burckhardt
Clementine Butler-Gallie ReRouting
Chris Dercon
Patrick Düblin .for.peripatetic.design
Babak Fakhamzadeh
Mel Galley Mel Galley
Carolin Genz Carolin Genz
Denise Haschke Denise Haschke
Deirdre Heddon Dee Heddon Dee Heddon & Misha Myers
Johannes M. Hedinger Johannes M. Hedinger
Martin Josephy
Marie-Anne Lerjen
Henriette Lutz Henriette Lutz Architektin
Ann Mbuti
Ailin Nolmans Ailin Nolmans
Clare Qualmann Clare
Katja Reichenstein Katja Reichenstein
Niklaus Reichle
Markus Ritter
Alona Rodeh Alona Rodeh
Morag Rose Morag Rose
Núria Rovira Núria Rovira Terradas 🐛
Julia Rüegger
Soya the Cow Soya the Cow🌱
Aylin Tschoepe
Unofficial Hiking Society AG Unofficial Hiking Society AG
Ueli Vogt
Judith Weidmann
Léonard Wiesendanger Lokal für Raumbegehung
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Full program and reader: www.ilea.art
Some talks will be livestreamed via website

Curated by: Violeta Burckhardt, Johannes M. Hedinger
Organization: ILEA Institute for Land and Environmental Art, studio erde.
Cooperations: Holzpark Klybeck, Lokal für Raumbegehung, Lucius & Annemarie Burckhardt Stiftung, Hafechäs, GANNET, and others.
Supported by: Lucius & Annemarie Burckhardt Stiftung, Pro Helvetia and others

Research Walkers

29/08/2026

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Recap of the soundwalk we did last weekend with Fabian Gutscher as part of the ALPS Summer Labor and Reflection, initiated by Kulturstiftung St. Moritz.

A heartfelt thank you to all participants, to Mareike Dittmer for the invitation and curation, and to Inge for the wonderful accommodation.

Don’t miss Marinella Senatore’s light installation in the village centre and at Forum Paracelsus in St. Moritz, on view until October 31.

And take a little detour to the Morteratsch Glacier while you still can. A little sad, but still deeply impressive.

Images/clips: Lukas Zitzer and Johannes Hedinger

Kulturstiftung St. Moritz
Fabian Gutscher
Mareike Dittmer
Johannes M. Hedinger
Institute for Land and Environmental Art
Original Content
Marinella Senatore

07/08/2026

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NEW TEXT
Johannes M. Hedinger
MORE THAN ART
A theatre play in five acts on art in public space and the landscape.

Free PDF:https://ilea.art/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Mehr-als-Kunst-MORE-THAN-ART-2026.pdf

Today: book launch and staged reading
6:00 pm Kultur- und Kongresszentrum Pontresina
Part of Espace Public Art, Kunstwege 2026.

Featuring nine works as protagonists:
- BRUNO & YOYO (2015) by Urs Fischer
- L’HOMME QUI MARCHE I (1960) by Alberto Giacometti
- AVENUE (2011) by Ge**er | Bardill
- HOUSE TO WATCH THE SUNSET (since 2005) by Not Vital
- GREAT WHITE (2018) by Ursula Palla
- SKY STUDIES (2020) by Badel | Sarbach
- BAUPROFILE (2024) by Andrea Todisco
- MITTELPUNKT DER ERDE UND GRENZE DER ATMOSPHÄRE (2020) by Marie Velardi
- I SEE DARKNESS (2020) by Ester Vonplon

Pontresina Cultura
Pontresina
Institute for Land and Environmental Art
Johannes M. Hedinger
Urs Fischer
Ge**er Bardill
Fundaziun Not Vital

Badel/Sarbach
Andrea Todisco
Ester Vonplon
Verlag Scheidegger & Spiess

25/07/2026

📣 OPEN CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
Final days. Deadline: August 1
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👣 WALKING. Thinking in Motion
Symposium and Walkshops

🗓 BASEL: September 11–13, 2026
📍 Holzpark, Klybeck, Basel
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WALKING continues this autumn: Following the successful first two edition in Tenna and Zurich, the next editions will take place in Basel-Klybeck, featuring a symposium and wide range of walkshops.
Drawing on Annemarie and Lucius Burckhardt’s concept of promenadology (strollology), or the science of walking, we invite artists, researchers, and walkers to explore walking as a critical, spatial, and artistic practice.

🧭 Formats: Walkshops, performative walks, lecture performances, roundtables, and talks.
👉 Free participation, food at participants’ own expense
👥 Maximum 30 participants
📌 Register by Aug 1, 2026
🔗 Link in bio.
Registration: https://ilea.art/walking-denken-in-bewegung-3/

Curatorial team: Violeta Burckhardt, Johannes M. Hedinger
Organized by: ILEA Institute for Land and Environmental Art, studio erde.
In cooperation with: Holzpark Klybeck, Lokal für Raumbegehung, Lucius & Annemarie Burckhardt Stiftung, Hafechäs, GANNET, Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst Basel FHNW, and others.
Supported by: Lucius & Annemarie Burckhardt Stiftung, Pro Helvetia and others.

Confirmed speakers and walkshop leaders:
•⁠ ⁠Tom Brunner & Katja Reichenstein
•⁠ ⁠Violeta Burckhardt
•⁠ ⁠Clementine Butler-Gallie & Clare Qualmann
•⁠ ⁠Chris Dercon
•⁠ ⁠Babak Fakhamzadeh
•⁠ ⁠Carolin Genz & Henriette Lutz
•⁠ ⁠Johannes M. Hedinger
•⁠ ⁠Deirdre Heddon
•⁠ ⁠Martin Josephy
•⁠ ⁠Marie-Anne Lerjen
•⁠ ⁠Ann Mbuti
•⁠ ⁠Ailin Nolmans
•⁠ ⁠Niklaus Reichle & Ueli Vogt
•⁠ ⁠Markus Ritter
•⁠ ⁠Alona Rodeh
•⁠ ⁠Morag Rose
•⁠ ⁠Núria Rovira & Mel Galley
•⁠ ⁠Julia Rüegger & Patrick Düblin
•⁠ ⁠Soya the Cow
•⁠ ⁠Aylin Tschoepe & Denise Haschke
•⁠ ⁠Unofficial Walking Society AG
•⁠ ⁠Judith Weidmann & Frederic Bron
•⁠ ⁠Léonard Wiesendanger

Tom Brunner Katja Reichenstein Clare Carolin Genz Henriette Lutz Architektin
Research Walkers Dee Heddon Dee Heddon & Misha Myers Ailin Nolmans Alona Rodeh Morag Rose Núria Rovira Terradas 🐛 Mel Galley .for.peripatetic.design Soya the Cow🌱 Denise Haschke Unofficial Hiking Society AG Frédéric Bron

20/07/2026

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How can art and culture create new social spaces?
This is one of the central questions explored by Manifesta 16 Ruhr, currently taking place in twelve vacant or repurposed churches across Essen, Duisburg, Bochum, and Gelsenkirchen, Germany.

Together with students from the University of Cologne, we discussed transformation, the future of third places and public spaces, and the role art can play in neighborhoods and processes of social change.
On view until October 4, 2026. Admission is free, and it is definitely worth the trip.

kunst.uni-koeln Johannes M. Hedinger Institute for Land and Environmental Art

images:
1: Bureau Baubotanik Kollektiv, St. Bonifatius - Gelsenkirchen
2-3: Merve Kaplan, St. Bonifatius - Gelsenkirchen
4: Eva Koťátková, Christ König – Bochum
5: Małgorzata Mirga-Tas, Christ König – Bochum
6: St. Ludgerus - Bochum
7-8: CaboSanRoque with FLEXO ARQUITECTURA Kollektiv, St. Ludgerus - Bochum
9-10: Mirosław Bałka, Zuza Golińska, Gethsemane - Bochum
11: Pedro Cabrita Reis, St.Anna - Bochum
12-13: Pınar Öğrenci, St.Anna - Bochum
14-16: Ming Wong, St. Anna – Gelsenkirchen
17-18: Emre Abut, St. Anna – Gelsenkirchen
19: Gülbin Ünlü, Thomaskirche – Gelsenkirchen
20: German Flags in Gelsenkirchen (before they got kicked out of the World Cup)

19/07/2026

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How can art and culture create new social spaces?
This is one of the central questions explored by Manifesta 16 Ruhr, currently taking place in twelve vacant or repurposed churches across Essen, Duisburg, Bochum, and Gelsenkirchen, Germany.

Together with students from the University of Cologne, we discussed transformation, the future of third places and public spaces, and the role art can play in neighborhoods and processes of social change.
On view until October 4, 2026. Admission is free, and it is definitely worth the trip.

kunst.uni-koeln Johannes M. Hedinger Institute for Land and Environmental Art

images:
1-2: Penique Productions, St. Josef – Gelsenkirchen
3-4: Havîn Al-Sîndy, St. Josef – Gelsenkirchen
5-6: CaboSanRoque with FLEXO ARQUITECTURA Kollektiv, St. Ludgerus - Bochum
7: Eva Koťátková, Christ König – Bochum
8: Bérénice Gaça Courtin, Christ König – Bochum
9: Katarzyna Kozyra, Christ König – Bochum
10: Mehtap Baydu, Christ König – Bochum
11: Mirosław Bałka, Zuza Golińska, Gethsemane - Bochum
12: Bureau Baubotanik Kollektiv, St. Bonifatius - Gelsenkirchen
13: Judith Hopf, St. Bonifatius - Gelsenkirchen
14-15: Merve Kaplan, St. Bonifatius - Gelsenkirchen
16: Alicja Kwade, St. Marien - Essen
17: Thomaskirche – Gelsenkirchen
18: Gülbin Ünlü, Thomaskirche – Gelsenkirchen
19-20: German Flags in Gelsenkirchen (before they got kicked out of the World Cup)

07/07/2026

Join this ZHdK Summer School
> URBAN COMMONS <
Art & Collective Placemaking
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3, 4, 5 September 2026
Block seminar on current ecological and social discourses and practices.

Urban Commons examines collective forms of action between art, everyday life, and urban practice. The central question is how shared action is organized and how it can create agency in everyday life.
A special focus lies on the concept of “commoning”. This refers to processes of collectively producing, using, and caring for shared resources. Commoning enables concrete experiences of participation and agency.
“Placemaking” is understood as a collective practice. Participants work with real situations in urban space. Places are read, used, and transformed together. Decisions emerge through the process and are negotiated collectively.
The module combines theory and practice and introduces concepts from art, collaboration, commons, and more-than-human approaches. Exercises, excursions, conversations with experts, and experimental formats form the basis of the work. We test methods on site and develop a toolbox for our own collective practice.

Instructors:
Johannes M. Hedinger (ILEA) and Violeta Burckhardt (studio erde) + guests
Dates:
Tue 3 Sep, 6 to 9pm / Fri 4 Sep, 9am to 5pm / Sat 5 Sep, 9am to 5pm

Information and registration (until 7 Aug 2026): https://ilea.art/urban-commons/

Johannes M. Hedinger Zurich University of the Arts Institute for Land and Environmental Art Violeta Burckhardt

raumlabor Ernesto Neto

images:
1. Gabriyel Dari: Walkshop EINSC_NITT (2026), after Lucius Burckhardt
2. Bucher/Hedinger: Walking & Knowing. Mit Fischli/Weiss: Haus (1987/2016)
3. Raumlabor: Küchenmonument (seit 2006)
4. Ernesto Neto: Gaia Mother Tree (2018)
5. Verein Tilia: Wanderbaumallee Stuttgart (seit 2019)
6. studio erde: Wilder Platz (seit 2022)
5. Summerschool Logo

09/06/2026

ART WALK ZURICH NORTH🚶‍♀️🚶‍♂️
Sunday, June 14, 11:00 🗓️
Duration: 2 hours
Start: MFO-Park, Oerlikon📍
Corner of Elias Canetti-Strasse, 8050 Zurich

Join us for a guided walk through Zurich North exploring public art, urban transformation, and site-specific artistic practice in Oerlikon and Seebach. The walk brings together major works in public space by artists including Fischli/Weiss, Olafur Eliasson, Renée Levi, Yves Netzhammer, Annemie Fontana, Hans Josephsohn, and others.
Along the way, participants will gain insight into the changing urban fabric of Zurich North, including MFO-Park, Oerliker Park, and Max-Bill-Square. We will also visit Labör, Oerlikon’s new experimental community and cultural space, and learn more about ILEA’s work in the field of site-specific art.

Led by:
Johannes M. Hedinger, ILEA, ZHdK
Annemarie Bucher, ILEA, ETH

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07/06/2026

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Today! - Join the Online Talks (Day 3)
🚶‍♀️WALKING. Thinking in motion.
Symposium & Walkshops
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10.00 CET HEIKO SCHMID
12.45 CET JAN-NOËL THON
14.30 CET MANUELA MORALES DELANO
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YouTube livestream
https://www.youtube.com//streams
Or via www.ilea.art

Curated by: and .m.hedinger
Organized by: ILEA and ,
Supported by: , Lucius & Annemarie Burckhardt Stiftung, a.o.

Full program: https://ilea.art/walking-denken-in-bewegung-3/

annemarie

06/06/2026

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Today! - Join the Online Talks (Day 2)
🚶‍♀️WALKING. Thinking in motion.
Symposium & Walkshops
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10.00 CET A. DOMSCHKY & M. ZAUGG
11.00 CET DENNIS HÄUSLER
11.30 CET M. LERJEN & C. RATTI
12.00 CET YOUNG JAE SHIN
13.45 CET JULIA RÜEGGER
14.15 CET GEERT VERMEIRE
16.45 CET NIKOLAUS WYSS
20.00 CET FRANCESCO CARERI
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YouTube livestream
https://www.youtube.com//streams
Or via www.ilea.art
Or Live at .ch and
Full program: https://ilea.art/walking-denken-in-bewegung-3/

Curated by: and .m.hedinger
Organized by: ILEA and ,
Supported by: , Lucius & Annemarie Burckhardt Stiftung, a.o.

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