Battlefield is an artwork and archive project by Gabriella Hirst. It is a garden of plants whose officially registered ‘cultivar’ names reference theatres of war, armed conflict and the military. The nearly 200 different plant varieties were bred and given these names over the last 500 years by gardeners, plant breeders and nurseries. In its current configuration at the Kunsthalle Osnabrück, Battlefield contains plant varieties sourced from over 70 different (predominantly European) nurseries and gardens. This website indexes the stories told by Battlefield ’s assembled plants, tracing entanglements of conquest and care within the language of western gardening.
Battlefield is an artwork and archive project by Gabriella Hirst. It is a garden of plants whose officially registered ‘cultivar’ names reference theatres of war, armed conflict and the military. The nearly 200 different plant varieties were bred and given these names over the last 500 years by gardeners, plant breeders and nurseries. In its current configuration at the Kunsthalle Osnabrück, Battlefield contains plant varieties sourced from over 70 different (predominantly European) nurseries and gardens. This website indexes the stories told by Battlefield ’s assembled plants, tracing entanglements of conquest and care within the language of western gardening.