Wilm Weppelmann (17 April 1957 – 5 November 2021) was a German artist, conceptual artist, garden artist, photographer and writer based in

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, with extensive solo exhibitions (Town Museum

, Museum for Sepulchral Culture

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, etc.) concerning the boundaries of human existence. Since 2005, Weppelmann has focused primarily on the meaning of

garden culture ''Garden Culture'' is a print and digital publication focused on urban agriculture, (indoor) gardening, and progressive gardening techniques. The magazine covers a wide range of topics such as sustainable living, hydroponics, organic gardenin ...

and its role in the development of human existence.

Work and projects

Weppelmann's artist projects are interdisciplinary, as he brings a wide variety of disciplines together. Conceptual art,

performance art Performance art is an artwork or art exhibition created through actions executed by the artist or other participants. It may be witnessed live or through documentation, spontaneously developed or written, and is traditionally presented to a pu ...

video art Video art is an art form which relies on using video technology as a visual and audio medium. Video art emerged during the late 1960s as new consumer video technology such as video tape recorders became available outside corporate broadcasting. V ...

, photographic art, garden art and installation are often included in an overall staging and complemented by an independently curated cultural program.

Subversion Subversion () refers to a process by which the values and principles of a system in place are contradicted or reversed in an attempt to sabotage the established social order and its structures of Power (philosophy), power, authority, tradition, h ...

as an artistic strategy often emphasizes the critical and political statement of his work. AFarm II 2014 - Wilm Weppelmann

Since 2005, at all levels of his artistic work, the urban garden and urban green takes a pre-eminent position, these include: staged photography, interventions in public space, guerilla gardening, continuous art performances, soil and plant art installations, floating vegetable gardens and other garden creations that deal with historical themes. Central points of reference are the

allotment garden An allotment (British English), is a plot of land made available for individual, non-commercial gardening for growing food plants, so forming a kitchen garden away from the residence of the user. Such plots are formed by subdividing a piece of ...

, the vegetable culture and, accordingly, the

self-sufficiency Self-sustainability and self-sufficiency are overlapping states of being in which a person, being, or system needs little or no help from, or interaction with others. Self-sufficiency entails the self being enough (to fulfill needs), and a sel ...

economy.

Partial bibliography

* Aus dem Woerterbuch der Sterblichkeiten (1996) * Ich verlaesst ich (2003) * Die Kunst in sich zu wohnen (2004) * Sterben kommt (2004)

References

External links

The website of the artist Wilm WeppelmannFreie Gartenakademie , hier wächst Kultur
{{DEFAULTSORT:Weppelmann, Wilm 1957 births Artists from North Rhine-Westphalia Photographers from North Rhine-Westphalia People from Lüdinghausen 2021 deaths