Battlefield is an artwork by Gabriella Hirst, a garden of plants whose officially registered cultivar names reference theatres of war, armed conflict and the military. The plant varieties were bred and given these names over the last 500 years by various nurseries and individual breeders, for example, Peony âVictoire de la Marneâ (registered and named in 1919), Rosa polyantha âDunkerqueâ (1950), Rosa floribunda âAtombombeâ (1953). Hirst has been researching, assembling and tending to these plants since 2014 in the community gardens of the Tempelhofer Feld, Berlin, as part of a...
Battlefield is an artwork by Gabriella Hirst, a garden of plants whose officially registered cultivar names reference theatres of war, armed confl...