Wallpaper - 10.2019

PHOTOGRAPHY: DANIEL GEBHART DE KOEKKOEK WRITER: SOPHIE LOVELL

KLAUS LITTMANN WITH

SOME OF THE 300 OR SO

TREES THAT HAVE SINCE

BEEN TRANSPLANTED TO

FORM HIS INTERVENTION,

CALLED FOR FOREST

Tr e e a g e n t

Why maverick Swiss curator Klaus Littmann

is growing a forest in an Austrian stadium

This autumn, the Swiss art interventionist

Klaus Littmann is filling a football stadium

in the Austrian town of Klagenfurt with a

full-grown forest. It is a free-access public art

installation of Christo-like proportions that

has had much of Austria buzzing for months.

Littmann is not new to large-scale public

projects. In 2018, for example, he floated 12

giant ‘art planets’ by a range of international (^) »
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