Ecological Dramaturgy

  • Installation, 2025–2026
    Red chalk on pigmented lime plaster, chalk and red chalk drawings on paper, watercolor, notebooks with drawings and texts.
    Walls 800x200 cm. and 660x200 cm., nine plinths in various size.

    M.1 Arthur Boskamp-Stiftung, Hohenlockstedt, Germany.

  • M.1 Arthur Boskamp-Stiftung, installation view, 2026.
    Photography: Marie-Theres Böhmker

  • Lene Markusen's growing wall drawing in M.1 is a visual condensation and poetic documentation of the encounters and conversations that take place during the Assemblies of Art as an Ecological Practice, transferred, translated and retold by the artist. Spanning two walls in an “internal mural,” a multi-layered pictorial landscape unfolds in which individual motifs interact, overlap, merge into one another or open up new contexts through their juxtaposition. The landscape of drawings follows the concept of an ‘ecological dramaturgy’ that Markusen is currently developing: a participatory narrative form based on connection and relationality – between people, things, thoughts, times and places. In this open dramaturgy, a network of stories and meanings emerges that is not linear but planetary in nature – a documented web of perception, memory and imagination.
    –Ronald Kolb

  • Stories of the Earth
    here
    Archeology of drawings
    Drawing the landscape, drawing beauty, drawing ugliness,
    drawing lines, drawing paths
    Harvesting asparagus
    Harvesting strawberries
    Military use
    Agricultural use
    Sealing
    Unsealing the stories

  • Grandma collects plantain by the roadside. She pulls out the largest leaves, right down to the ground, to get the whole stem. She puts them in a plastic bag. If you pull the leaves up carefully, you can let long strands hang out of the stem. She washes the leaves, puts them on her open wounds on her legs, in the living room, sitting on the sofa. She pulls her nylon stockings over them to hold them in place. What were these wounds? Wounds of grief for the deceased, which she herself bore, effects of a lifetime of physical labor on the farm? Women's legs. Oppression goes into the legs. Everything they had to endure. Water in the legs, varicose veins, bruises. Heavy, tired legs. Plantain when walking away, walking on, walking toward.

  • The dose makes the poison. Fertilization can make soil fertile. Farming and cultivation create biodiversity. Soils are stable. Land development leads to ever-increasing loss of agricultural land. 2010: 52.4% agricultural land. 2022: 50.3% agricultural land. Handle food with care. Play with food. flow. light. wave. Crop rotation. Dreaming of the dancing stars. Birds are singing. Interstitial spaces. I would like a soup of contentment. Throwing Catching Responsiveness. Knowing Havong Observing. Hauted place Alleen – Military spatial planning Train, discipline undisciplined restless. The mycelium between us humans—our collective nervous system seeps deeper through the silt, preparing healthy soil. The microstructure of the soil should be intact. I go into the forest to repair my nervous system. A ring in the haystack. Flower bed fulfillment of my dream. Waiting for the hedgehog, for the bees, for the birds, waiting for company to conquer nine languages – already practicing, opening channels within ourselves to communicate with the beings that surround us. Spring drought, Termites have to share. I am worried about my grandfather´s house. If nobody lives there once he is gone the house will damage and suffer I care about the environment. Memories. Care. Concern. Uncertainty. I love my grandfather´s house. It is very serious. I am very worried. Colours that connect each other.

  • Lene Markusen activated her Choreographic Mural, transforming her spatial drawing installation into a temporal participatory event formed by the persons present.