07.04.2026 – 31.10.2026
On Magnolia Hill, beneath a willow dome, Daniela Brasil is setting up a sensory, political and communal art-nature-life laboratory centred on the colonial journey of the passion flower – the maracuja – from South America to Austria, where it has now become a hardy, naturalised plant. The artist draws on records of Austrian expeditions to Brazil from the early 19th century and focuses on the watercolours by Thomas Ender and Michael Sandler, which document the colonial scientific expeditions in Rio de Janeiro. Ender’s works offer magnificent narratives of the tropical landscape, whilst Sandler’s botanical drawings depict plants as open bodies that have been dissected to reveal their internal structures with anatomical precision. Roots, Unrooted, Re-rooted invites visitors, in the form of a healing garden, to linger amongst migrant plants, to feel their potency and to learn from their adaptations. This garden is both a meditation and an artistic gesture – a regenerative space where sensory curiosity and the intertwined histories of Brazil and Austria converge, pointing towards a future rooted in the reciprocity between humans and the more-than-human world.
Daniela Brasil – Roots, Unrooted, Re-rooted
07.04.2026 – 31.10.2026
Premstätten, Österreichischer Skulpturenpark
www.museum-joanneum.at
