Lois Weinberger

Lois Weinberger

Lois Weinberger (1947–2020) was an Austrian artist whose work foregrounded ruderal plants, migration, and the politics of marginal ecologies. Calling himself a “field worker,” he used drawings, notes, installations, and plant transfers to reveal the hidden agency of weeds in urban and cultural systems. His Burning and Walking (1993/1997) opened asphalt surfaces to spontaneous vegetation and became influential for landscape architects—most notably inspiring Wagon Landscaping’s experiments with asphalt ecologies, among others. At documenta X he planted neophytes along railway tracks, turning vegetation into a metaphor for migration and displacement. Weinberger’s work contributed significantly to debates on art, ecology, and the politics of public space.

/ Urška Škerl

In the U.S., lawns cover nearly 2 percent of the land surface and, as researcher Cristina Milesi revealed using satellite data, “could be considered the single largest irrigated crop in America”—their total area is three times larger than that of irrigated cornfields. The infatuation with lawns runs so deep that, in some cases, failing to […]

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