Lois Weinberger

Lois Weinberger was a pioneer of ecological art. Describing his artistic practice as "poetic fieldwork" he worked to elevate the dialogue between nature and culture. His 1997 intervention, which involved the sowing of weeds along more than three hundred feet of abandoned railroad tracks, for that year's edition of Documenta was a groundbreaking early artistic criticism of the human-driven upheaval of the Anthropocene,

Mobile Garden was conceived in 1994, as a means of inserting greenspace into the concrete byways of the urban core. A temporary landscape that self-develops seasonally as seeds are carried on the wind or expelled in bird droppings, the installation serves as a record of the invisible ecosystem always ready to take root given the right conditions. Though the inclusion of greenspaces and heritage plantings have become a more conscious decision on the part of urban planners since the 1990s, Mobile Garden still constitutes a radical gesture that increases biodiversity and creates opportunities to engage in the pleasures of nature in a space that would otherwise be wholly disconnected from it.

Exhibitions of Weinberger's work have been held at Jardins des Tuileries, Paris among others