All good things are wild and free ...

Walking, hiking, running, trekking, pilgrimage, escaping...
The exhibition’s heart is the immediate experience of the landscape’s vastness, without infrastructure and with a sense of one’s own physical energy, but also of its limits. The exhibition All good things are wild and free. Wandern, pilgern, Spuren finden is about movement in nature and being moved. About speed and slowness, finding and leaving traces, departing and arriving.

The points of departure are ephemeral interventions in the landscape, as they have emerged since the 1960s, but also instructions, video works, audio walks, conceptual works, photography, and painting by international artists. Historical, political, ecological, and social aspects also play a role – from pilgrimages and experiences of migration, activism, and ecology to questions of access to public spaces.

The practice of walking is an important part of the exhibition. The result is a new, conceptual walking trail from Wilhelmshaven to Jever without any physical intervention in nature. Stops along the way include historical, cultural, and everyday places. The focus is not on touristic or artistic highlights, but rather on visual, acoustic, and tactile impressions that invite reflection – on walking as a means of transportation, on the changes in cities, nature, and people over time, on landscape in all its forms, and on old and new paths.

The route is accompanied by an interactive book containing maps, route descriptions, and artistic contributions, reviving the tradition of the (artistic) pilgrim’s stamp.

With: Marina Abramović & Ulay | Jess Allen | Stanley Brouwn | Janet Cardiff | Hamish Fulton | Till Gerhard | Hiwa K, Joachim Koester | Jeewi Lee | Richard Long | Hendl Helen Mirra | Benjamin Patterson | Markus Schinwald | Joanna Schulte | Joshua Zielinski