As part of the Künstlergärten Weimar project, visitors to the gardens behind Goethe’s Garden House in Weimar were invited to observe Ulrike Mohr working directly on a six-meter-tall Norway maple. Over the course of two weeks (August 28 – September 11), the Berlin-based artist temporarily transformed the tree into both material and medium.

Using needle and thread, Mohr carefully stitched the leaves of the tree together so they could not fall in autumn. A scaffolding structure surrounded the tree during the process. Once the leaves had withered, they could be removed as a single, sculptural form — a fragile canopy held together by thread.

The work was realized as part of the Künstlergärten Weimar project, initiated by Professor Barbara Nemitz (Bauhaus University Weimar). Mohr later presented the project in a talk at the Bauhaus University on October 29 and ACC Galerie Weimar.

This intervention is part of Mohr’s ongoing artistic inquiry into the „drawing“ and transformation of living plants. In an earlier work for the Parkklinik Weißensee in Berlin, she connected potted plants across a 15-meter span—quietly reconfiguring both space and botanical form through minimal gestures.