(*1941 in Salzburg, lives in Bad Goisern). Monika Sobotik attended the horticultural engineering school in Freising (Weihenstephan) as a root researcher in 1964. She gained practical experience in vegetable growing on a biodynamic farm in the Swabian Alb and at Threefold Farm in Spring Valley, USA. Since 1967 she has had the opportunity to work with Prof. Dr Lore Kutschera and Prof. Dr Erwin Lichtenegger on the root atlas volumes 2, 3, 5 and 6. She was co-author of volumes 4 and 7.
In 1983 she obtained her doctorate in botany and biochemistry at the University of Salzburg and headed the Department of Botany and Plant Sociology until her retirement in 2001, during which time she continued to work at the Institute of Plant Sociology under Kutschera and Lichtenegger in Klagenfurt. After Kutschera’s death in October 2008, she continued to run the Institute of Plant Sociology. In 2015, she moved the institute to Bad Goisern am Hallstättersee as the “Verein zur Förderung der Wurzelforschung – Pflanzensoziologisches Institut”.
In September 2020, the latest book “Pflanzenwurzeln, Wurzeln begreifen, Zusammenhänge verstehen und in der Praxis anwenden” by Monika Sobotik and colleagues was published by DLG Verlag.
How Scurrealism Comes into the World
Where the real and the bizarre meet, “scurrealism” enters the world. This neologism comes from the Ebensee writer Walter Pilar, the instigator of the Villa Karbach art project. He and many other artists show works of unconventional power and intensity.
