Fritz Haeg: At Home in the City

Fritz Haeg: At Home in the City, 2013. Exhibition view, Walker Art Center, 2013 (photo: Gene Pittman)

In 2011 the American artist Fritz Haeg was one of the participants of the Foodprint event DAG HAP. He presented his Composted Constructions, small objects from recycle material, from nesting boxes for birds, hotels for bees and enclosures for animals to flower boxes. For the past decade Fritz Haeg has explored how we live in our cities, offering alternatives through edible gardens, domestic gatherings, public dances, animal architecture and more. For a year-long residency at Walker Art Center in Minneapolis (USA), At Home in the City, the artist has worked with Twin Cities residents and community groups on plantings, events, and a gallery installation. Three interrelated projects—Foraging Circle, a planting in the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden; Edible Estate #15: Twin Cities, a suburban front lawn transformed into an edible organic garden; and Domestic Integrities A05, Haeg's most recent body of work—encourage us to re-imagine our relationships to the land, the home, the city, and each other. More info: www.walkerart.org