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Expanded Painting, Spatial Practices, Ecology & More-than-Human Relations
Founder of Forest Research Platform
Berlin + Brandenburg

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Christl Mudrak’s first monographic publication is dedicated to her artistic, painterly work of the last two decades. The book is both a search for traces and impetus for an artistic practice that contradicts the simplifying patterns of art historiography and makes institutional appropriation more difficult. In addition to the creation of experiential spaces and participatory-performative painting, Mudrak’s art focuses on exploring the potential of collaborative work, based on a deep understanding of the equality of humans, animals, and nature. Through this monograph, Mudrak’s often ephemeral art is not only made visible, but can be experienced anew.

This volume is published in a moment of contemplation and active reflection of Christl Mudrak’s artistic practice and inititates the artistic research project Nonviolence. Forest Research Platform

Publication

Edited by
Christl Mudrak, Sven Christian Schuch @svenschuch

Authors
Tim Jones & Meena Chodha @window135, Tatiana Echeverri Fernandez @tatiana_echeverri_fernandez, Susanne Jakob, Monika Jarecka @monika_jarecka, Maria Kögel, Clemens Krümmel @snowflakeoffice, Hannah Beck-Mannagetta @hannahbeckmannagetta, Roland Mayer, Natalia Medebach @nataliamedebach, Vuyo Mgijima @vuyomgijima8, Christl Mudrak, Eva Mudrak, Ralf Mühlebach, Micha Otto @michaotto, Katja Pudor @katja.pudor, Olivia Reynolds @oliviagillowreynolds, Ute Ringel @uteidee, Martin G. Schicht, Anne Schreiber @anneschreiber1, Sven Christian Schuch, Andreas Sell @andsell7, Tereza Severová @severovatereza, Philip Topolovac @philip_topolovac, Carolina Varassi @carolinavarassi, Yanna Varbanova @yanna.varbanova, Andreas Weiß @andreasfilippo, Vicky Wright @vicky_wright_artist, Christof Zwiener @christof__z

Design
Laura Catania @l.catania

Volume
256 pages
211 illustrations
222 mm x 282 mm

ISBN 978-3-7757-5899-4 (Print)
ISBN 978-3-7757-5900-7 (E-Book)

Published by
Hatje Cantz Verlag GmbH @hatjecantzverlag
Mommsenstraße 27
10629 Berlin
Germany
www.hatjecantz.com
A Ganske Publishing Group Company

This publication was made possible by the generous support of
Berliner Senat & Stiftung Kunstfonds Bonn @stiftungkunstfonds

Photos: Hatje Cantz Verlag by @christlmudrak

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Christl Mudrak’s first monographic publication is dedicated to her artistic, painterly work of the last two decades. The book is both a search for traces and impetus for an artistic practice that contradicts the simplifying patterns of art historiography and makes institutional appropriation more difficult. In addition to the creation of experiential spaces and participatory-performative painting, Mudrak’s art focuses on exploring the potential of collaborative work, based on a deep understanding of the equality of humans, animals, and nature. Through this monograph, Mudrak’s often ephemeral art is not only made visible, but can be experienced anew.

This volume is published in a moment of contemplation and active reflection of Christl Mudrak’s artistic practice and inititates the artistic research project
Ohne Gewalt. Forest Research Platform

Publication

Edited by
Christl Mudrak, Sven Christian Schuch @svenschuch

Authors
Tim Jones & Meena Chodha @window135, Tatiana Echeverri Fernandez @tatiana_echeverri_fernandez, Susanne Jakob, Monika Jarecka @monika_jarecka, Maria Kögel, Clemens Krümmel @snowflakeoffice, Hannah Beck-Mannagetta @hannahbeckmannagetta, Roland Mayer, Natalia Medebach @nataliamedebach, Vuyo Mgijima @vuyomgijima8, Christl Mudrak, Eva Mudrak, Ralf Mühlebach, Micha Otto @michaotto, Katja Pudor @katja.pudor, Olivia Reynolds @oliviagillowreynolds, Ute Ringel @uteidee, Martin G. Schicht, Anne Schreiber @anneschreiber1, Sven Christian Schuch, Andreas Sell @andsell7, Tereza Severová @severovatereza, Philip Topolovac @philip_topolovac, Carolina Varassi @carolinavarassi, Yanna Varbanova @yanna.varbanova, Andreas Weiß @andreasfilippo, Vicky Wright @vicky_wright_artist, Christof Zwiener @christof__z

Design
Laura Catania @l.catania

Volume
256 pages
211 illustrations
222 mm x 282 mm

ISBN 978-3-7757-5899-4 (Print)
ISBN 978-3-7757-5900-7 (E-Book)

Published by
Hatje Cantz Verlag GmbH @hatjecantzverlag
Mommsenstraße 27
10629 Berlin
Germany
www.hatjecantz.com
A Ganske Publishing Group Company

This publication was made possible by the generous support of
Berliner Senat & Stiftung Kunstfonds Bonn @stiftungkunstfonds

Photos: Hatje Cantz Verlag by @christlmudrak

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This Sunday we installed a Feed Sculpture on the roof terrace of Lobe Block for @sculplobe and the birds of the area. A broken jaw tree top from the Working the Land installation @changing_room_berlin brought from the Krämer forest in Brandenburg was coated with a paste of seeds and sunflower oil. How long will it take for it to be picked bare? And what creatures will visit it?
Feeding sculpture by Christl Mudrak.

#christlmudrak #urbannature #nature&art taken in Lobe Block by @christlmudrak

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ONE EARTH - Künstlerische Perspektiven auf den Lebensraum „Erde“ im Kontext
von Geopolitik und Klimakrise Eröffnung: Samstag, 10. Oktober 2026, 16:00 Uhr im KVN Projektraum. In ihrer immersiven Installation für den Chorraum des KV Neuhausen verknüpft die Berliner Künstlerin Christl Mudrak mikroskopische Prozesse mit makroskopischen Dimensionen und spannt einen Bogen von der globalen Naturgeschichte zur Paradiesvorstellung eines Thüringer Gärtners. Mehr darüber ab Samstag, den 10. Oktober 2026 im Kunstverein Neuhausen. #kvnneuhausen #christlmudrak #gaia #tropicalismo #sehnsuchtsorte #erdbilder #DDR #paradiese taken in Kunstverein Neuhausen e.V. by @christlmudrak

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What Burns, Remains ~ accompanying program 🌲 Thursday 1.10. 17:00

Artist talk with Christl Mudrak, artist and initiator of the international Forest Research Platform project (in English).
The presentation will be followed by a guided tour of the exhibition with the artists Tomáš Hrůza and Bronislava Bakule Malá, and the curator Veronika Čechová.
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Christl Mudrak is a visual artist and initiator of interdisciplinary art and research projects. She lives and works in Berlin and Brandenburg.
Her artistic practice encompasses expanded painting as well as site-related, immersive, performative, and participatory formats. Her work focuses on questions of perception, collective authorship, and the relationships between humans, animals, and plants. From 2007 to 2014, Mudrak taught expanded painting in the Department of Architecture at ETH Zurich, at the Chair of Art and Architecture. She has also taught at various European universities and institutions, continuously developing her artistic and theoretical practice in the context of painting, architecture, and ecological concerns.
Mudrak is the initiator of the Forest Research Platform, a long-term interdisciplinary art and research project at the intersection of art, ecology, and social transformation in the Krämerwald forest in Brandenburg. She is currently developing the research project Ohne Gewalt (Nonviolence) there, funded by the Stiftung Kunstfonds (2024–2026).
Since 2025, she has served as Co-Spokesperson of the Board of the Deutscher Künstlerbund. She is also a volunteer lay judge in juvenile court at the Berlin Regional Court. taken in Entrance Gallery by @christlmudrak

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Leuchtkäfer

video, sound, light, installation art, music by students of the New Media Class 1, Academy of Fine Arts in Prague

Forest Research Platform. Nonviolence.
Platform for artistic research in Krämerwald, Havelland
26. 9. 2026
15 - 22 h
forest-research-platform.de

Mit der unterstützung
Deutsch-Tschechischer Zukunfstfonds, Akademie der bildenden Künste Prag, Tschechisches Zentrum Berlin

Students of the New Media 1 studio at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague present artistic works created during a several-day workshop in the forest. Light, sound, plants, wildlife, the non-human perspective. Can a beetle sing? Does light attract a fox? Where did the pine tree learn to dance?

Studierende des Ateliers Neue Medien 1 der Akademie der Bildenden Künste Prag präsentieren künstlerische Arbeiten, die während eines mehrtägigen Workshops im Wald entstanden sind. Licht, Klang, Pflanzen, Tiere, die nichtmenschliche Perspektive. Kann ein Käfer singen? Lockt das Licht einen Fuchs an? Wo hat die Kiefer tanzen gelernt?

Studenti ateliéru Nová média 1 pražské Akademie výtvarných umění představí umělecké výstupy několikadenního lesního workshopu. Světlo, zvuk, rostliny, zvěř, nelidská perspektiva. Umí brouk zpívat? Přivábí světlo lišku? Kde se naučila borovice tančit? by @christlmudrak

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Christl Mudrak, Der geteilte Boden – Teppichlandschaft, 2026 (Engl. Common Ground – Carpet Landscape), 2026, video still, Forest Research Platform

Towards Eden

Drawing on ideas and motifs from Pompeian wall painting, Der geteilte Boden – Teppichlandschaft explores the landscape as a shared space of perception and encounter. The work is conceived as an attempt to develop forms of non-violent communication with the members and inhabitants of the forest.

Humans, animals, and plants are understood as co-inhabitants of a shared living environment, rather than as separate or hierarchically ordered entities. The carpet landscape becomes a common ground on which different forms of perception, movement, agency, and trace-making intersect.

Towards Eden describes not a return to an idealized paradise, but an ongoing search for forms of coexistence in which the forest is understood as a living community and its diverse inhabitants as active participants in the making and perception of the work.
A search towards eden. by @christlmudrak

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21 days ago

We are truly delighted that, despite the rain, so many guests made their way to Grünefeld on Saturday 5th 2026.
A heartfelt thank you to all of you for coming. We are deeply grateful for the powerful presentations and the many intense and inspiring conversations we shared throughout the day.

photos: Silvia Mamporia @s.mamp and Jadwiga Skalska

Forest Research Platform
Nonviolence 2026
Krämerwald by @christlmudrak

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Christl Mudrak, Der geteilte Boden – Teppichlandschaft, 2026 (Engl. Common Ground – Carpet Landscape), video excerpt, Forest Research Platform
Towards Eden

Drawing on ideas and motifs from Pompeian wall painting, Der geteilte Boden – Teppichlandschaft explores the landscape as a shared space of perception and encounter. The work is conceived as an attempt to develop forms of non-violent communication with the members and inhabitants of the forest.

Humans, animals, and plants are understood as co-inhabitants of a shared living environment, rather than as separate or hierarchically ordered entities. The carpet landscape becomes a common ground on which different forms of perception, movement, agency, and trace-making intersect.

Towards Eden describes not a return to an idealized paradise, but an ongoing search for forms of coexistence in which the forest is understood as a living community and its diverse inhabitants as active participants in the making and perception of the work.
A search towards eden. by @christlmudrak

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2026 International Joint Research & International Exchange

What the Forest Remembers: From Kyumjae's Panoramic View to Today's Ecological Landscape

September 16 – September 17, 2026

Kyumjae Jeong Seon Museum, 3F Multi-purpose Room

Hyungjin Park, Seihee Yoo, Yeonsook Lee, Hyungwook Choi, BLUE CURRY, CHRISTL MUDRAK, KIRSTEN PALZ

Networking Talk: September 19, 1:00 PM (36 Yangcheon-ro 17-gil, Gangseo-gu, Seoul)

Featuring special guests
Soonim Kim, Haejin Kim, Wonsun Seong, and Jihee Hong alongside the participating artists.

We cordially invite you to the showcase for the next step of the FOREST RESEARCH PLATFORM ROOT PROTOCOL. by @christlmudrak

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Forest Research Platform, 2026
Installing Ausblick by Michael Kleine
Production Team Silvia Mamporia and Elizaveta Savitskaia.
Thanks so much!

@s.mamp by @christlmudrak

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What Burns, Remains / Co shoří, to přetrvá

Tomáš Hrůza, Bronislava Bakule Malá, Forest Research Platform

The 2026 exhibition programme of Entrance Gallery is based on an ecological understanding of the forest as an interconnected organism in which trees, fungi, soil and microorganisms create networks of sharing, cooperation and memory. The programme is inspired by forest ecologist Suzanne Simard’s book Finding the Mother Tree (2021).

The exhibition What Burns Endures explores the disruption of forest ecosystems – particularly in the aftermath of fires, logging and the colonisation of landscapes, but also the possibilities of subsequent regeneration. The works on display address the critical state of forests following fires and other destructive events. The exhibition presents a collective project focusing on the transformation of forest landscapes in the Czech Republic, with particular emphasis on the 2022 fire in Bohemian Switzerland National Park, and on the stories that unfold between the destruction that has taken place and the difficult process of recovery that follows. The exhibition features photographs, paintings and video recordings from the field. The gallery space is complemented by a spatial intervention in the form of a wooden structure evoking a forest shelter – symbolically offering refuge from the forces of nature, as well as from the difficult questions surrounding human management of the natural world.

Opening: Thursday, 3 September at 6 pm
Exhibition: 4 September – 3 October 2026
Curator: Veronika Čechová
Entrance Gallery, Jugoslávských partyzánů 7, Prague 6
Opening hours: Thursday–Friday 2–7 pm, Saturday 11 am–6 pm by @christlmudrak

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