In 1947, the Japanese American artist Isamu Noguchi designed the Sculpture To Be Seen From Mars, a face of a human being, two miles tall. Two years after the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Noguchi imagined this piece as the last witness to life on earth after the nuclear blowout. The sculpture is a piece of Land Art, twenty years before the Land Art, and later the environmental art, emerged as art movements, an artistic vision that was never realized. For the inaugural exhibition by Stadtkuratorin Hamburg, called From the Cosmos to the Commons, we invite you to collectively create an earth piece inspired by the Sculpture to be Seen From Mars and to reinterpret it as a Living Sculpture. On the square in front of the Planetarium, we will first model a 10x10 meter face and then plant it. Phases of gardening will alternate with phases of reflection. We will take time to think about big questions: Since the end of the Second World War, we have lived with the knowledge that humans may end their own existence on earth. In Sculpture to be Seen from the Sky, we see ourselves in the mirror of our possible self-destruction. In the past 80 years, the scenarios of extinction have multiplied and changed - with the climate crisis and on-going wars, other dangers have been added, and with them, the new dimensions of planetary responsibility and connection. How do we live with this, and despite it?

Meeting point: Fountain at the Planetarium Hamburg

2 May 16.00-20.00
3 May 11.00-18.00
4 May 12.00-16.00

Open and free to all. It is possible to participate on individual days or for the entire duration.
Refreshments will be served.

Please register by May 1st at: info@stadtkuratorin-Hamburg.de