Silke Wagner: Migration and Plant Cat. Kunstverein Heilbronn

Silke Wagner (1968) is invited to realize her project with the title Migration and Plant in public spaces around Heilbronn. Heilbronn is home to an above average number of people with a migration background. Their share of the ­population is 50%. For her project, Wagner researched plants from the various countries of origin and then combined this information with migration statistics. She intends to have colored foils installed at the railway shelters along the axis train station. Additional explana­tions and ­illustrations on the topic of migration are ­avail­able via an app, as well as flyers. This book documents all foils, as well as the ­accompanying materials, and also includes deepening con­tributions.

Thomas Breunig is head of the Institute of Botany and Landscape Sciences in Karlsruhe and chairman of the Botanische Arbeitsgemeinschaft Su¨dwestdeutschland. He is a longtime contributor at Biodiversity Monitoring Switzerland and, together with Siegfried Demuth, the author of the Red List of Fern and Seed Plants of Baden-Wu¨rttemberg. Annemarie Bucher is a lecturer at Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) and is co-director of the independent research platform FOA-FLUX. Matthia Löbke is the artistic director of the Kunstverein Heilbronn. She is a curator who publishes monographic catalogs. Jobst Paul is a pedagogue and linguistics and literary scholar. He has been working for many years at Duisburg Institute for Linguistics and Social Sciences (DISS). Silke Wagner studied at the Städelschule and was master class of Thomas Bayrle. She participated in numerous group shows, including the 2012 Biennale Bern, and many solo exhibitions, including Kunstverein Heilbronn.