Wild, Uncultivated and Spontaneous at La Casa Encendida, Madrid
Tranzit Garden and Cosmos Garden are included in the Festival
Wild, Uncultivated and Spontaneous
at La Casa Encendida, Madrid
18 March – 6 April 2025
As part of the Salvajes, Silvestres y Espontáneas 2025 festival at La Casa Encendida, Paisanaje collective in Madrid creates a mural-diagram installation, which presents an open map of projects that reinterpret community gardens as spaces for learning and experimentation.
Paisanaje, with its dual curatorial and artistic nature, presents a selection of initiatives that, from different cities, are exploring new ways of inhabiting the world alongside other species. These gardens invite us to imagine alternative relationships with living beings, where scientific knowledge intertwines with the poetics of our coexistence with plants, animals, and fungi.
Installed on the mezzanine wall, the exhibition functions as a living archive—a space for the exchange of knowledge and the convergence of inspiring proposals. Eight invited projects will share documents, photographs, audio recordings, and manifestos, allowing connections to emerge between their experiences and those of visitors to the space.
Among the selected projects are Estudio Bulla in Argentina, Tranzit in Bucharest, Krater in Ljubljana, and Wagon in Paris, as well as the 21st Century Gardens network led by Teresa Galí-Izard through the Chair of Being Alive. Each of these initiatives approaches the garden as a space for learning, exchange, and the recovery of empirical knowledge, where patience and careful observation take precedence over the acceleration of the artificial.
These gardens blur the boundaries between art and science, nature and culture, city and countryside, proposing forms of cohabitation that break with traditional dichotomies. In a context of climate and ecological urgency, these spaces not only celebrate life but also invite us to imagine other possible futures—more just and sustainable for all forms of life.
