Open day at the chair
As part of its 5th anniversary, the Chair of Forest Entomology and Protection is holding an open day on Saturday, March 22 from 1:30 to 6:00 pm.
The following program is planned:
- 14.00 – Presentation of current research results on bark beetles
- 3.00 pm – Guided tour of the biotopes of the “Vibrant Wittental” Exploratorium
- 16.00 – Vernissage of the art exhibition “Fragil” with champagne reception and snacks
Further information on the content and working methods of Sonia Itten can be found here. You can find an excerpt of her works at http://www.kunstspirative.de (artist’s website).
Admission is free. Registration for the individual program items is requested here by 18 March at the latest.
Address: Baldenweger Villa, Fohrenbühl 27, 79252 Stegen
Please note: there is limited availability for parking. The best way to reach us is by bike, e.g. with the Breisgau S-Bahn from FR-Littenweiler or Kirchzarten.
Art exhibition “Fragil”
Information on content and working methods
“Since my childhood I have been interested in these very small inhabitants of the earth and even as a child I collected all the dead insects by the wayside to preserve them with my mother’s nail polish and so they populated my doll’s house – not exactly to my mother’s delight. To this day, the theme of insects is still very present in my art.
Always endeavoring to work on socially relevant content with the means of art and thus give it a multi-perspective, as is inherent in works of art, insects have taken on a different context in my work in recent years:
It is no longer just my personal playful interest in them that plays a role but, embedded in the current problems of species protection and insect decline, they take on a kind of alarm function in my works, as their dramatic decline is closely linked to the other major problems of our time such as climate change and environmental protection.”
– Sonia Itten
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