Down to Earth
Climate Art Discourse unplugged
13 August to 13 September 2020
The summer project “Down to Earth” is both a walk-through exhibition with objects and installations occupying the entire ground floor of the Gropius Bau and the Südplatz to its rear as well as the venue for an unplugged programme that changes every day and includes live art, music, lectures and spontaneous interventions along with expert talks and workshops.
Impressions from “Down to Earth”
From 13 August to 13 September 2020, the climate, art and discourse project “Down to Earth” explored how the agenda of a shift in climate policy affects our own “operating system”. We would like to thank all participating artists, experts, visitors, colleagues, partners and interested followers for an exceptional summer project.

Down to Earth. Entwürfe für eine Kultur der Nachhaltigkeit
Book
“Down to Earth” brings together 14 visions of a culture of sustainability from the arts, from activist contexts and from science and politics that are committed to radical ecological change: away from western thinking that isolates, extracts and exploits elements of life and towards structures that operate holistically and respectfully.
Edited by Thomas Oberender
With texts by Frédérique Aït-Touati, Dorothea von Hantelmann, Bruno Latour, Hermann E. Ott, Tino Sehgal, Joulia Strauss, Andreas Weber and others
€ 14.00
Available in the webshop
Saturday, 22 August 2020
Down to Earth
Ensemble Extrakte: “How To Inhabit These Different Temporalities”
Down to Earth
What happened to sharing, what happened to caring?
Sebastian Lütgert (Pirate Cinema Berlin)
Sunday, 23 August 2020
Down to Earth
Ensemble Extrakte: “How To Inhabit These Different Temporalities”
Down to Earth
Tiny House Workshop: Einfach Bauen
Joschka Härdtner, Kay Andrees, Gudrun Mattke, Mirko Hahn
Down to Earth
Academy for Transformation
Joulia Strauss
Down to Earth
Jared Gradinger und Angela Schubot: “The Opposite of a Shadowland”
Down to Earth
Mein Biotop auf dem Balkon. Naturerlebnis und Ernteglück mitten in der Stadt
Birgit Schattling
Down to Earth
Mein Biotop auf dem Balkon. Naturerlebnis und Ernteglück mitten in der Stadt
Birgit Schattling
Down to Earth
Ensemble Extrakte: “How To Inhabit These Different Temporalities”
Down to Earth
Balkonsolarmodule: Technik, Wirtschaftlichkeit und Lobbyismus
Marcus Vietzke
Down to Earth
Deep Artist Talk: Like a Hurricane – Nadja Verena Marcin’s „OPHELIA” and other Disasters
Nadja Verena Marcin
Down to Earth
Ensemble Extrakte: “How To Inhabit These Different Temporalities”
Down to Earth
Into the Wild. An Edible Sculpture
Artistic Dinner with Mister Chan and Friends
Anne Duk Hee Jordan
Monday, 24 August 2020
Down to Earth
13 August to 13 September 2020
Down to Earth
Stegreif Orchester
Down to Earth
An introduction to Qi Gong – Energetic practice
Khien Phuc
Down to Earth
An introduction to Qi Gong – Energetic practice
Khien Phuc
Down to Earth
Stegreif Orchester
Down to Earth
An introduction to Qi Gong – Energetic practice
Khien Phuc
Down to Earth
An introduction to Qi Gong – Energetic practice
Khien Phuc
Down to Earth
Jared Gradinger und Angela Schubot: “The Opposite of a Shadowland”
Down to Earth
Stegreif Orchester
Down to Earth
Großräumige Lebensmittelproduktion in urbanen Gebieten: Solidarische Landwirtschaft, Speisegut
Christian Heymann
Down to Earth
Großräumige Lebensmittelproduktion in urbanen Gebieten: Solidarische Landwirtschaft, Speisegut
Christian Heymann
Down to Earth
Die Weltacker-Erfahrung: Wie können mich meine 2000m² Acker ernähren?
Benedikt Haerlin
Down to Earth
Die Weltacker-Erfahrung: Wie können mich meine 2000m² Acker ernähren?
Benedikt Haerlin
Wednesday, 26 August 2020
Down to Earth
13 August to 13 September 2020
Down to Earth
Stegreif Orchester
Down to Earth
An introduction to Qi Gong – Energetic practice
Khien Phuc
Down to Earth
An introduction to Qi Gong – Energetic practice
Khien Phuc
Down to Earth
Everything is Spirituality is Art is Life is Energy
Ingrid Mueller-Farny
Down to Earth
Schamanisches Wissen
Tania Hron
Down to Earth
Readings
Ingrid Mueller-Farny / Stegreif Orchester
Down to Earth
Die Waldapotheke – heilkräftige Bäume und Kräuter
Dorothea Schwierskott
Down to Earth
Die Waldapotheke – heilkräftige Bäume und Kräuter
Dorothea Schwierskott
Down to Earth
Repair-Café
Jürgen Krauss, Norbert Boenigk, Klaus-Peter Handke, Eric Schulz
Down to Earth
Landing – Murmuration
Shelley Etkin
Down to Earth
A Sound Intervention with the “Velvet” Musicians
Down to Earth
Spells for the Future
Ingrid Mueller-Farny, Shelley Etkin, Maria F. Scaroni, Claire Vivianne Sobottke
Down to Earth
An introduction to Qi Gong – Energetic practice
Khien Phuc
Down to Earth
An introduction to Qi Gong – Energetic practice
Khien Phuc
Thursday, 27 August 2020
Down to Earth
13 August to 13 September 2020
Down to Earth
Stegreif Orchester
Down to Earth
Tiny House Workshop: Einfach Bauen
Joschka Härdtner, Kay Andrees, Gudrun Mattke, Mirko Hahn
Down to Earth
Claire Vivianne Sobottke: “Velvet”
Down to Earth
Stegreif Orchester
Down to Earth
Hilary Jeffrey: “A Rose for Mary O‘Donnell Fulkerson Concert” (im Rahmen von Velvet)
Down to Earth
Along the Third Attractor: the Local and Indigenous Communities’ Creative Involvement with the United Nations
Isabell Schrickel
Down to Earth