The approximately 200 included plant varieties may be understood as agents of historical heritage and memory. Hirst’s constantly expanding living and dying archive of plants reveals complex histories. Through the compilation of the violent events evidenced in the plant names, conveyed via botanical signs, the flowers as objects are given an extended connotation or meaning, through which the visitor is offered a connection to the historical event and a reflection on our political present. 
The aspect of care for the plants, as well as figuratively for history, plays a crucial role for Hirst. This care for and about the plants is particularly important in the research and preparation process, as it is here that the sometimes violent ‘order’ to which the plants in a cultivated, organised garden are usually subjected through pruning, grafting, cultivating and weeding becomes especially clear. Battlefield is an open site of gardening conflict and tending to history, with the garden undergoing continuous horticultural care.

Visit

Battlefield is located in the public space of the Augustaschacht Memorial, Lower Saxony, and can be visited at any time.

Publication

Hershey Font

The “Hershey” font used throughout this website, in the Battlefield publication, and in the Battlefield installation garden signage, was developed c. 1967 by Dr. Allen Vincent Hershey at the Naval Weapons Laboratory. It was chosen for specifically due to its dual connotations- its development link to the weapons manufacturing industry and more recently in applications like laser engraving, which is used typically for the development of botanical signs.

Credits Website

Editor: Gabriella Hirst
Text: Anna Voswinckel + Anja Lückenkemper
Photos, Videos: Frank Berger, Gabriella Hirst, Sophie Schollek, Anna Holms + Anna Voswinckel
Design, Development: Jasper Otto Eisenecker + Boris von Hopffgarten

This website was initially developed for the solo exhibition Battlefield (25.6.2022–5.3.2023) by Gabriella Hirst at Kunsthalle Osnabrück, curated by Anja Lückenkemper and Anna Voswinckel as part of the annual theme Romanticism. Since 2024, it has been maintained by the Augustaschacht Gedenkstätte.

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Gabriella Hirst 
Schudomastrasse 3
12059 Berlin
hirst.gabriella@gmail.com

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