Tita Giese

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Tita Giese (born August 21, 1942 in Nördlingen ) is a German artist who has been designing plant landscapes , primarily in public spaces , since 1978 .

life and work

“Central American traffic islands” on Stresemannplatz in Düsseldorf
Düsseldorf, Ernst-Reuter-Platz, two years after the planting

After attending school in Oettingen, Tita Giese studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg , then at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . There she met her husband, the artist Imi Giese . The marriage produced a daughter.

In her artificial landscapes, Tita Giese works with weeds , pioneer plants , grass-like and exotic plants. In doing so, it uses a great diversity of species and is not limited to the “streamlined program” available to municipal gardening authorities.

Plant projects by Tita Giese in public space are, for example, "Central American traffic islands " on Stresemannplatz in Düsseldorf , plant islands on the Düsseldorf millipede and hanging gardens in the Fünf-Höfe shopping arcade in Munich. With the latter, she is in the tradition of Patrick Blanc . In the literature, Giese is referred to as an artist or plant artist, which she strictly rejects.

Plant communities in the wild form the basis of Tita Giese's work. Their basic patterns are repeat , wallpaper and endless repetition, which give the surfaces intensity and their own aesthetic.

Giese worked with the painter Henning Straßburger for the Kottbusser Tor plant project in Berlin, and also with the architects Herzog & de Meuron .

Projects (selection)

  • 1978: Ronsdorfer Strasse Düsseldorf
  • 1980: Plant strips and islands on Berliner Allee , Düsseldorf (removed due to road renovation in autumn 2012)
  • 1994: Düsseldorf Airport (destroyed by fire)
  • 1999: Plant project Andreas Gursky Düsseldorf
  • 2000: Deichtorhallen Hamburg plant project
  • 2002: Hanging Gardens Munich
  • 2003: Clematisse in magnolias Thomas Ruff Düsseldorf
  • 2005: Ahnfeldplatz, Düsseldorf
  • 2007: Central American traffic islands Stresemannplatz, Düsseldorf
  • 2009: Fernschluchten Basel, for Herzog & de Meuron
  • 2010: ivy and quartz chippings, Acctelion Business Center Basel
  • 2014: Düsseldorf, Ernst-Reuter-Platz, with partial use of the planting of the Berliner Allee that was dismantled due to renovation

Exhibitions (selection)

literature

Web links

Commons : Tita Giese  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ WZ Newsline, accessed on January 26, 2012
  2. ↑ RP_Online, accessed January 26, 2012
  3. ↑ Spiegel-Online, accessed on March 16, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Giese, Tita
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH August 21, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Nordlingen