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
Thursday, 27 August 2020
Down to Earth
Along the Third Attractor: the Local and Indigenous Communities’ Creative Involvement with the United Nations
Isabell Schrickel
Down to Earth
Claire Vivianne Sobottke: “Velvet”
Down to Earth
Avtonomi Akadimia – Academy of Transformation
Indigenous Forms of Knowledge
Thomas Oberender in conversation with Joulia Strauss
Down to Earth
Songs of the Transindigenous Assembly
Joulia Strauss & Robert Lippok
Down to Earth
Claire Vivianne Sobottke: “Velvet”
Friday, 28 August 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
Avtonomi Akadimia – Academy of Transformation
Indigenous Forms of Knowledge
Thomas Oberender in conversation with Joulia Strauss
Down to Earth
Songs of the Transindigenous Assembly
Joulia Strauss & Robert Lippok
Down to Earth
Claire Vivianne Sobottke: “Velvet”
Down to Earth
Schuldpolitik im Anthropozän
Luca Di Blasi
Down to Earth
Claire Vivianne Sobottke: “Velvet”
Saturday, 29 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
Repair-Café
Jürgen Krauss, Norbert Boenigk, Klaus-Peter Handke, Eric Schulz
Down to Earth
Practices of Grounding – Transindigenous Assembly
Tania Hron & Joulia Strauss
Down to Earth
Claire Vivianne Sobottke: “Velvet”
Down to Earth
Stegreif Orchester
Down to Earth
Claire Vivianne Sobottke: “Velvet”
Down to Earth
Jared Gradinger und Angela Schubot: “The Opposite of a Shadowland”
Down to Earth
Hilary Jeffrey: „Trombocean“
Down to Earth
The torn sound. Reading Camila Marambio and Cecilia Vicuña
Brandon LaBelle
Down to Earth
Claire Vivianne Sobottke: “Velvet”
Sunday, 30 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
Academy for Transformation
Joulia Strauss
Down to Earth
Claire Vivianne Sobottke: “Velvet”
Down to Earth
Stegreif Orchester
Down to Earth
Claire Vivianne Sobottke: “Velvet”
Down to Earth
Jared Gradinger und Angela Schubot: “The Opposite of a Shadowland”
Down to Earth
Abigail Sanders: “Buck Whale Song”
Down to Earth
Kleinwindkraftanlagen – selber bauen und betreiben
Immanuel Dorn
Down to Earth
Kleinwindkraftanlagen – selber bauen und betreiben
Immanuel Dorn
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Claire Vivianne Sobottke: “Velvet”
Monday, 31 August 2020
Down to Earth
13 August to 13 September 2020
Down to Earth
Stegreif Orchester
Down to Earth
Academy for Transformation
Joulia Strauss
Down to Earth
Labor für Kunst und nachhaltige Bildung: Weltretten mit Spaß
Carla Schulte-Fischedick
Down to Earth
Labor für Kunst und nachhaltige Bildung: Weltretten mit Spaß
Carla Schulte-Fischedick
Down to Earth
Stegreif Orchester
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, 2 September 2020
Down to Earth
13 August to 13 September 2020
Down to Earth
Stegreif Orchester
Down to Earth