Magazine "everything grows" - from tomatillos to exhibition publication

"What grows!", Paul Klee once wondered. Nevertheless, it is remarkable when an exhibition publication grows from a community garden.

Anyone who keeps a vegetable garden will be familiar with the phenomenon: at some point during the summer months, there comes a phase when all the vegetables are ripe at the same time and you hardly know what to do with them, looking for new recipe ideas for a bit of variety. It was precisely this research and the culinary results that gave rise to the idea among our community gardeners.

We could publish our collected recipes in a booklet

We no longer know whether this publication was originally only intended for the gardening community or for a wider readership. The fact is that this idea developed very quickly in discussions between the program management and the gardening community.

It provided the impetus to combine various projects and existing paths into one vessel. For the 2023 summer exhibition Paul Klee. Everything Grows was to focus on Klee's engagement with nature. From the outset, the exhibition concept envisaged a connection between the indoor and outdoor spaces of the Zentrum Paul Klee.

Inspired by the recipe publication, the idea arose to bring together the various disciplines that deal with nature in different ways at the Zentrum Paul Klee at the level of the exhibition publication, thus creating a further narrative arc.

An editorial team consisting of employees of the Zentrum Paul Klee and local residents was responsible for selecting the topics and content. Biodiversity alongside trouvailles from our collection, an exhibition reflecting sustainability, recipes from the garden community alongside Paul Klee's recipes - a magazine that unites the diverse perspectives.