Plant shelf

Laboratory, workshop, administration — all the threads of modern agriculture align on the workbench. This is where plants are optimized, machines are designed, and landscapes are split up. In our „plant shelf“, which originates from the historical stocks of the department store, the operational functions of the table are combined with the archive capacities of the shelf. From the Peasants‘ War to land reform to land grabbing. From the field to the battlefi eld and back again. From the Central German beet field to the London Sugar Exchange.
In the network of apparatuses, books, found objects, projections, and statistics, you will encounter fragments of the
global history of beet sugar from central Germany, traces of the tractor that lead to the East and the West, pieces of a
history of the dialectic between collectivization and capitalization as well as a quartet of energy crops in which you can also take a stab at potatoes and algae.