In the Garden
Living Spaces Between Desire and Experiment

Front garden, roof garden, park, traffic island or balcony – what counts as a garden? The exhibition shows the diversity of the garden, from a concentrated focus on the urban garden landscape of Linz through contemporary international garden architecture all the way to community gardens and guerilla gardening. In the garden tells of the Garden of Eden, where desire and nature are united, and also of experiments in living spaces. ¶

Gardens are cultural phenomena, spaces charged with the history of society and culture. They are both nature and culture, can be agricultural or productive land, representative spaces, ecological niches or personal enclaves. Gardens are locations of childhood and mute biographies full of stories, places of privacy and retreat in the midst of a busy city. Garden culture does not stop at the garden gate, it also takes place in public space. 

In the garden shows depictions and interpretations of gardens from the collection of the City Museum, considers gardening tendencies and characteristics from urban spaces: whether it is a matter of urban-agrarian usage, floral gems or ecological roof gardening – the exhibition documents them and suggests new experiences of nature.

Curators: Andrea Bina, Magnus Hofmüller, Karin Standler