I grew up in Town, nearby Frankfurt a/M, Germany, studied Ethnologie in Madrid, Bonn, Mecixo-City, then Art in Cologne, and some years later the basics of botany in Florence. The intense look at the ground under my feet was due to the Tschernobyl Nuclear Desaster in 1986. All of a sudden I realized what we were about to loose. I wanted to get acquainted with the small beings I walk on and I am allergic to: the strange thing called nature.
When I slowly learned to handle botanical Literature and herbals, I found out that the low wild plants are much less described than the beautiful flowers, kitchen herbs, bushes and trees. I ate myself through piles of knowlegde and problems, krawled on knees and invented methods of research that fitted with my visive and artistic mind.
In the meantime I combine my skills to make it easy for others to get fascinated
Recent Wild plant Activities
| 20.10.2014 | Guest Lecture on “Phyto-Alimurgia” and Guided Tour on ‚How to Forage Wild Edible Plant’s’ for the students of Prof. Fischer’s SUF course NSD 354 „Mediterranean Food and Culture: A Florence Experience“, Syracuse University, Florence | |
| 10.4.2014 | Guest Lecture riconoscimento e cucina di erbe spontanee, Lunch with Prof. M. Occhibove for Danish Students and the teachers that organized the student exchange. Curator Claudia Vitale for l’Istituto di Istruzione superiore “Giotto Ulivi”, Borgo San Lorenzo | |
| 9.4.2014 | Guest Lecture and Guided Tour on ‚How to Forage Wild Edible Plant’s’ for the students of Prof. Fischer’s SUF course NSD 354 „Mediterranean Food and Culture: A Florence Experience“, Syracuse University, Florence | |
| 5. and 6.Febr. 2014 | Guest Lectures and Guided Tour on ‚How to Forage Wild Edible Plant’s’. for Students from USA, Palazzo Rucellai, Florence | |
| 4.12.2013 | Guest Lecture and presentation of edible wild plants, in: Klosterkirche Hennef, Germany | |
| Nov. to Dec. 2013 | “Cane” (Phragmites australis), project with product design students, FH Aachen | |
| 4.12.2013 | Lecture on local wild plants, theory and practical applications and use at the former Cloisters of Hennef, Germany | |
| 15.6.2013 | Wild Plant lecture and Wild Plant Menue in Bonn, Breitestrasse | |
| 16.3.2013 | Training course on local edible wild plants and their use in contemporary cuisine at the Observatory Parco Botanico del Chianti, Barberino Val d’Elsa, Tuscany, Italy | |
| 11.12.2012 | Documentary „Vicini selvatici“,(Wild Kinship) RAI III, Geo&Geo, by Anne Wollrath | |
| 18.10.2012 | “Cena ecumenica” – dinner with Wild Plant dishes for the Accademia Italiana della Cucina, in Villa Campestri, Tuscany, Italy | |
| 12.10.2012 | Field trip into rural tuscany followed by exhibition cooking of wild plant dishes made from local sources for Students from the International Studies Institute, USA, Palazzo Rucellai, Florence, Italy | |
| 28.9.2012 | Buffet of localy sourced wild plant dishes for opening of the art exhibition: “osservazione della natura in stato di quiete ” (stillife); curator Paola Bortolotti, in the Museum Marino Marini, Florence, Italy. Assorted wild plant dishes combined with traditional Tuscan plant recipes | |
| 7.7.2012 | Public Wild Plant dinner on the main “Piazza” of Pelago, Florence, Tuscany in honor of Alesia Association | |
| 23.6.2012 | Wild plants in June in Bonn, Lecture Ecology of the town and surroundings, in Frau Holle, Bonn | |
| 20.5.2012 | Wildpflanzenmatinee in Gut Ostler, Bonn Messdorf | |
| 17. and 24.3. 2012 | Alla ricerca delle erbe spontanee alimentari, Deva Wolfram, Marina Clauser, Claudia Vitale in Barberino di Mugello, Sezione Soci COOP and Gruppo escursionisti | |
| 8.12.2011 | Lecture for Blumenclub BFAS, Essen | |
| 16.10. 2011 | World Food Day, lecture in Sala Strozzi, University of Florence, Tuscany | |
| 26.7. 2011 | TUM, Arte e Natura, Rocca di Carmignano, Tuscany | |
| 5.6. 2011 | Nature outdoor- our wild relatives, with Prof. Dr. Ryōsuke Ōhashi in Finkens Garten, Cologne | |
| 22.5. 2011 | UN-Day of Biodiversity, Pavillon in the Botanical Garden of Bonn | |
| 17.5. 2011 | wild plant Dinner in VILLA ROMANA; Florence,Italy | |
| 3. 2011 | 3 botanical excursions with the Botanical Garden of Florence in Vicchio,Italy | |
| 19.10. 2010 | Goethe fra Arte e Scienza, with Claudia Vitale in the German Institut, Florence | |
| 1. u. 2. 10-2010 | Lecture in the Cityhall from STADE: „The wild Relatives in Europe“ ; Excursions in the City of Stade in search of the wild relatives. |
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| 9-2010 | Two Guest Lectures: “Our Wild Relatives – Innovative Food Resources and Our Cultural Heritage” in the american University at PALAZZO RUCELLAI and two field trips from Paterno to Pagiano,FI; | |
| 20.6-2010 | Wild plant Matinee, Bonn | |
| 22.5.2010 | UN-Day of Biodiversity in the botanical garden, Bonn | |
| 9.5.2010 | Andar per erbe, wildplant lesson with Marina Clauser in Casentino, Tuscany | |
| 3.2010 | LA Cucina, 3 minutes film, realisation Anne Wollrath | |
| 11.9-2009 | Le Piante spontanee e inselvatichite nel Parco della Villa Romana, Firenze | |
| 24.7-2009 | Installazione Silene Progetto Luna e l’Altro, Palazzo Panciatichi, Firenze, a cura di A. Borsetti | |
| 4.6-2009 | Alla scoperta delle piante spontanee, Spazio d’arte Alberto Moretti / Schema Polis, Comune di Carmignano | |
| 30.3. – 2.4- 2009 |
Design of Wild Plant Vases for the World Unesco Conference, UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development, Bonn, Ex-Parilament WCCB | |
| 20.3-2009 | Wild plants in front of the door, international workshop in Finkens Garten in occation of the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development, in Bonn | |
| 14.3-2009 | Passeggiata botanica in Vicchio, Tuskany, together with the Botanical Garden from Florence | |
| 28.2-2009 | Presentation of edible wildplants in Vicchio, Tuskany, together with the Botanical Garden from Florence | |
| 29.6-2008 | Kräutermattinee in „Finkens Garden“, Köln | |
| 27.6-2008 | Wild plants in front of the door, Studio Dumont, Köln, Moderation: Bernd Kittlass | |
| 12-30.5-2008 | Integrated Artwork for MOP4 and for the Mayors Conference Local Action for Biodiversity in Bonn: | |
| on the Occasion of MOP 4 Cartagena Protocol, Reception for the participants of the International Mayors Conference in WCCB with Film, Art-Objects, Text and edible Wild Plant-Installation | ||
| Design, Wild plants and wild flowers Menu for the participants of the International Mayors Conference „Local Action for Biodiversity“ in the old City hall. Speech on the edible biodiversity in Europe and European Cities | ||
| Wild Plants-Teelounge RhineLounge for the Region Nordrhein‐Westphalia and the City of Bonn on the „Plaza der Vielfalt“ | ||
| Guidance System Segnaletica with Photographies for the International Mayors Conference in the Department for Foreign Affairs | ||
| 21-23.9-2007 | Wundergarten des Lichts, Project with Students, Artists and Prof. R. Plum, University TH Aachen in collaboration with Kunstverein Grevenbroich; Wild plants gathered in the citypark, prepared in public with a solar-cooker; cultural-botanical walks through the city-park; installation of 25 Photos A3 with text about electric light, about biophotons in plants and enlightened minds |
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| 8-2007 | Exposition of spontaneous Tuscan plants at the “fierucola”, Piazza Santissima Anunziata, Florenze, 8-07 | |
| 7-2007 | Exposition of spontaneous Tuscan plants, paintings, photo-herbaria and plant-descriptions in Vallombrosa, Florenze | |
| 21.3-2007 | Conference “La Crisi Ambientale” with Professor Sandro Pignatti (Ecologist and botanist, Rome, Italy, main publication: Flora D’Italia) in “Casa Di Goethe” (Museum in Rome, German Institution), about the actual green state of Rome, Rome/Italy | |
| 24/25.2-2007 | With whom do you live? A theoretical and practical walk through the wild plants of Vicchio and around within a half years program: Vicchio meets German Culture, Vicchio, Tuscany/Italy | |
| 27. 6-2006 | Wild plants menu with the Town Indians from the Cologne Ghetto “Am Springborn”; in Finkens Garden; the poorest homeless children of Cologne and me gathered and cooked wild plants in a very special Park ( three times prised by UNESCO), Cologne /Germany. www.stadt-koeln.de | |
| 25.5-2006 | Mattinee with and about wild plants, together with a biodynamical farm “Gut Ostler”; a one day event for 100 persons who were eager to learn by direct contact; Bonn, Germany | |
| 24.5-2006 | Erborizazione II in San Miniato, Tuscany, with Dr. Marina Clauser, Botanical Garden of the Museum of Natural Science, University of Florence, Tuscany/Italy (Publication in: Bollettino dell’Accademia nr. 73 –2006, Accademia degli Euteleti della città di San Miniato) |
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| Awards Scholarships | ||
| 2011 | Kunstpreis Start, Gestalte Deine Stadt, Bonn | |
| 2003 | scholarship Villa Vigoni /Italy | |
| 1998 | scholarship Max Klinger House, Naumburg /Germany | |
| 1996 | guest artist of Villa Romana, Florence /Italy | |
| 1995 | guest artist of Kunsthaus Erfurt /Germany | |
| 1984 | two month studies, New York /USA | |
| 1982-83 | DAAD, one year scholarship in Florence/Italy, two month guest artist of Villa Romana, Florence /Italy |
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Education |
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| 1986-88 | Botany, University of Florence /Italy | |
| 1984 | Meisterschülerin (Art master degree) with Prof. Marx, Cologne/Germany | |
| 1975-81 | Study of fine arts/ Prof. K. Marx, Cologne/Germany | |
| 1972-75 | Study of Ethnology and Linguistics at the universities of Bonn/Germany, Madrid/Spain, Mexico-City/Mexico /Central America |
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| Own Projects, Concepts, Realisation with invited Artists and Scientists | ||
| After the nuclear desaster in 1986 the german population was asked not to leave children play outside. This reminded me of meadows of my childhod and I began to research the botanical and cultural reality of graslands and meadows. Exposition cycles and artworks came out of this context: Hortus Conclusus I – III; Stroma I – III; Kulturschichten I – III; Series of plant herbals, of painted herbals and collaboration with the Botanical Garden von Florence and the Unesco-prised park Finkens Garten in Cologne | ||
| 1993 | Hortus Conclusus III, in the cloister of the convent San Salvatore a Monte, Florence, with Brigitte Burgmer, Holography, K Cologne, Margherita Verdi, Photography, Florence. A public round table with Prof. Achille Bonito Oliva, curator, Rome, with Gino Ciolini, Abbot of the monastery Santo Spirito, Florence, with Joachim Burmeister, Villa Romana, Florence, with Vigilio Bianchi, Abbot of the Convent San Salvatore a Monte and Andrea del Guercio, art critic, Milan | |
| 1991 | Hortus Conclusus II, ART Station Sankt Peter, Cologne. With Brigitte Burgmer, Holography, Cologne, Ulla Horky, Objekte, Cologne | |
| 1989 | Hortus Conclusus I in the cloister of Santo Spirito, Florence, where the italien Humanism was founded. With Brigitte Burgmer, and Ulla Horky, Cologne | |
| 2004 | Kulturschichten Potsdam 2004, in the pavilion on the island „Freundschaftsinsel“, with Brigitte Burgmer, artist, Cologne; Dieter Meermeier, scientist for plant sociology, Erfurt; Verena Kyselka artist,Erfurt. Panel Discussion „How will it look like in Potsdam and surrounding in the year 2040?“ With Dr. Manfred Stock from Potsdam Institut für Klimafolgenforschung, Potsdam, and Dr. Sören Schöbel, Landscape Planning, TU Berlin |
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| 2000 | Kulturschichten 2000, Art Stories and histories on soil, Stadtmuseum Siegburg. In Hommage to Gernot Assum, Architect, Bonn, who died during the preparations; Brigitte Burgmer, Holografiy und Fayence, Cologne; Dieter Meermeier, scientist for plant sociology, Kassel-Erfurt; Verena Kyselka, Video-Installations, Erfurt. Public Discussion at the Finissage with Dr. Gert Fischer, Director dof Stadtmuseum Siegburg; Prof. Detlef B. Linke, „Neurogeograph“ and Philosopher; Dr. Anton Stelling, Riskmanagement, University Kassel, and the artists of the esposition. |
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| 1999 | Kulturschichten Gotha 1999, Schloss Museum, Gotha. With Gernot Assum, Architect, Bonn; Brigitte Burgmer, artist, Cologne; Dieter Meermeier, scientist for plant sociology, Kassel-Erfurt; Verena Kyselka, Video-artist, Erfurt | |
Solo Exhibitions from 2000 on |
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| 23.5 – 24.7.2014 | VERDE FIORENTINO, Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft, Wissenschaftszentrum Bonn | |
| 15.3 – 16.5.2014 | KONVERGENZ, Frankfurter Westend Galerie, Frankfurt am Main | |
| 18.2.-13.4 2012 | Fisica dello sconfinato, Galleria Schema, associazione culturale cantiere d’Arte Alberto Moretti, Comune di Carmignano | |
| 11.2011-3.2012 | Seeds, Europäische Akademie zur Erforschung von Folgen wissenschaftlich-technischer Entwicklungen, Bad Neuenahr | |
| 13.1.-3.3.2011 | CHUV, Lausanne | |
| 2010 | Devas Natur, FFFZ Düsseldorf, Germany | |
| Wildwuchs, ideale Agentur für Marketing, Bonn | ||
| 2008 | Kunstbalkon Botanical Garden of Kassel | |
| Botanical Garden of Florence Conference about Art and Science in Museo La Specola, Firenze/Italia with Marina Clauser, Claudia Vitale and Sergio Ferli |
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| 2006 | BILDER KRÄUTER REZEPTUREN, Galerie Glockengasse, Cologne/Germany | |
| ADOXA, Frankfurter Westendgalerie, Frankfurt am Main/Germany | ||
| 2005 | TABLEAU DER NATUR im Museum für Europäische Gartenkunst, Schloss Benrath, Düsseldorf/Germany |
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| 2003 | CHUV, Lausanne/ Switzerland | |
| 2002 | Galerie Galeano, Bonn Produzenten Galerie Viktoria B, Bonn/Germany Deutsche Bank, Bonn/Germany | |
| 2001 | Galerie Drei Eichen, Emern/Germany | |
| 2000 | Galerie Morgana, Florence/Italy; Physik der Liebe, Bezirksregierung, Lüneburg/Germany | |
Participations from 1999 on |
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| 2014 | Dublin Biennial 2014 | |
| 9.2. – 30.3.2014 | 25 Jahre Kunstverein Lippstadt, Rückblick nach vorne, Lippstadt | |
| 7.6.2013 | Photography competition and exhibition: Wahrheit wird völlig überbewertet , IDEALE AGENTUR; Bonn | |
| 29.9 – 3.11.12 | Osservazione della Natura in Stato di Quiete, Curator Paola Bortolotti, Museo Marino Marini, Florence | |
| May-August 2012 | Our Relatives,Plants and Animals. Frauenmuseum, Bonn | |
| 2009 | Luna e l’Altro – Enigma, La Barbagianna, Pontassieve, a cura di Alessandra Borsetti Venier | |
| 2008 | Dornen und Teufelsgetier, Frauenmuseum, Bonn | |
| WUNDERGARTEN DES LICHTS Kunstverein Grevenbroich DVWG Bonn | ||
| PATER, Barbagianna, Firenze | ||
| 2006 | ARTEMOBILE, Kulturaustausch Kassel-Florenz, Kulturbahnhof Kassel/Germany 7 X 2, Kunstbalkon Kassel/Germany | |
| 2004 | Galerie Gisele Linder, Basel/Switzerland | |
| 2003 | DAS DRITTE UFER, Köln, Deutzer Brücke, www.drittes-ufer.de Cologne/Germany | |
| 2001 | Galerie im Kunsthaus, Erfurt and Berlin/Germany | |
| 1999 | CHUV, Lausanne/Switzerland JUGEND UND LASTER, Kaufmannskirche, Galerie im Südschiff, Erfurt/Germany BLOCCO NOTES-NOTIZBLOCK, Project by Rendel Simonti, Galerie La Barbagianna, Pontassieve, Florence/Italy |
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Private and Public Collections Collection |
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| Deutsche Bank, Unter den Linden, Berlin/Germany Collection Deutsche Bank, Bonn/Germany Collection Giro- und Sparkassen Verband, Bonn/Germany Collection of the foundation Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Bonn und Berlin/Germany Collection Deuss- Hettlage, Essen/Germany Collection E-M Mann, Berlin/Germany Collection Franz Joseph van der Grinten, Moyland/Germany |
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Publications |
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| VIDEOS on Youtube account: deva wolfram | ||
| 2012 | TV: 11.12.2012 Documentary Vicini selvatici,(Wild Kinship) RAI III, Geo&Geo by: Anne Wollrath | |
| 2011 | TV: 11.2011 TV segment for WDR Lokalzeit Bonn, Wildpflanzen in der Stadt (Wild Plants in the City) | |
| 2009 | p.50-53, in: L‘Art et la Culture au CHUV, Caroline de Watteville | |
| Claudia Vitale in ASPHODELO, Vicchio | ||
| 2008 | Dornen und Teufelsgetier, Frauenmuseum, Bonn | |
| 2007 | Deva Wolfram: Die wilden Verwandten, in: PAN, Benrather Schriften, Band 4, p.31-38, | |
| M.C. Landi, A.Borsetti Venier, Pater, raccolta di poesie e opere visivi | ||
| 2006 | Marina Clauser, Deva Wolfram, ed al., Erborando a Balconevisi. La replica del 2006, Bolletino dell?Accademia degli Euteleti, pagina 287-320, | |
| Margitta Dobrileit, Tableau der Natur – naturphilosophische und ästhetische Betrachtungen zu den Kunstherbarien der Künstlerin Deva Wolfram, Palmengarten-Frankfurt am Main, Mai 2006 | ||
| 2005 | Deva Wolfram, Ankommen wenn man weggeht, Von Goethes Gartenhaus in Weimar bis zur Casa di Goethe in Rom, Animo Italo-Tedesco 5, Weimar 2005, S. 143-154. | |
| Antipodi, Nr. 5, Alternativa Libreria, Texte zur Umwelt mit Werken von Deva Wolfram, www.morganaedizioni.com | ||
| 2004 | Deva Wolfram, Kulturschichten 2004, Potsdam | |
| 2000 | Deva Wolfram, Mario Pachi, Minimum n.25, Libro d’artista Morgana Edizioni Firenze 2000 www.morganaedizioni.com | |
| Deva Wolfram, Kulturschichten 2000, Bonn 1999/2000 | ||
| 1997 | Deva Wolfram, Toskana Thüringen und zurück, Jahrbuch der Deutsch-Italienischen Gesellschaft, Weimar 1997, Seite 150-158 | |
| 1996 | Deva Wolfram, Gino Ciolini, Sandra Landi, La Memoria, Libro d’artista n.13, collana Peccati Quotidiani, Morgana Edizioni, Firenze 1996 www.morganaedizioni.com | |
| Deva Wolfram, Iter, Morgana Edizioni, Firenze 1996 www.morganaedizioni.com | ||
| 1995 | Hans Martin Schmidt, Jahresbericht der Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, 1995 | |
| 1994 | Heinz Georg Häußler, Vom Wiedererscheinen des hortus conclusus im Werk der Malerin Deva Wolfram, Die Drei, Stuttgart | |
| 1993 | Deva Wolfram, Hortus conclusus, Firenze | |
| Deva Wolfram, Stroma, Firenze | ||
| 1992 | Rossella Mitrano, Deva Wolfram, Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, Milano | |
| 1991 | Deva Wolfram, Hortus conclusus, Köln | |