With the JARDIN DES FEMMES exhibition, the monastery garden opens its doors after almost two centuries and builds a bridge between the past and present towards the future.
Opening: 06 April 2024 from 12:00 – 18:00
Smirna Kulenović presented her artistic work OUR FAMILY GARDEN, a transdisciplinary art project that emphasises the role of women in the preservation of collective memories and deals with the restoration of border landscapes in Bosnia and Herzegovina after the war, as part of the Artist in Residence programme of the Space and Design Strategies department’s project Plateau Blo. In 2021, artist Smirna Kulenović gathered 100 women for a collective, site-specific ritual in Bosnia and Herzegovina and planted over 1000 marigolds in former trenches. In her transformative works with medicinal plants, she intertwines this place of her homeland with the monastery garden in Gmunden.
