In cooperation:
Urban Soundscape
Parliament of Trees - Voices of the Urban Landscape
20. May 2026, 13:45 – 18:00
Overbeck-Gesellschaft
In cooperation:
Urban Soundscape
Parliament of Trees - Voices of the Urban Landscape
20. May 2026, 13:45 – 18:00
Overbeck-Gesellschaft
URBAN SOUNDSCAPE // Overbeck Society – Lübeck Art Association // Lübeck Architecture Forum presents:
Julia Nordholz // Parliament of Trees – Voices of the Urban Space
URBAN SOUNDSCAPE
The “Urban Soundscape” project is being carried out in close collaboration between various institutions in the fields of art, spatial strategies, urban research, architecture, and education. Participants include the Media Center at the Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts in Kiel, Lübeck University of Applied Sciences, the Overbeck Society, and ArchitekturForumLübeck e.V. in Lübeck.
The participating partners bring together diverse perspectives from artistic practice, academic research, urban planning, and cultural education, thereby facilitating an interdisciplinary exchange on the acoustic dimension of urban spaces. The goal is to develop new forms of collaboration between the arts, academia, and urban society.
Curatorial Director: Benjamin F. Stumpf
JULIA NORDHOLZ // PARLIAMENT OF TREES – VOICES OF THE URBAN SPACE
In this workshop, transdisciplinary artist Julia Nordholz invites participants to view trees in urban spaces as living witnesses to processes of urban transformation. Drawing on locations in Lübeck—including community gardens, vacant lots, and spaces undergoing change—participants will work in small groups to develop narrative, auditory, and spatial approaches to individual trees and their perspectives. Using methods drawn from artistic research, field recording, interviews, and collective imagination, a temporary “Parliament of Trees” is created, in which public issues concerning urban space are renegotiated from a non-human perspective.
JULIA NORDHOLZ
Nordholz, an artist, curator, and social designer, creates immersive spatial installations. Her works are often interactive and invite the audience to become part of the art—thereby blurring the boundaries between viewer and subject. Her transdisciplinary work addresses the pressing ecological and social challenges of our time. Philosophical and ecological questions have a profound influence on her artistic practice. In her work, she explores the ideological conflicts that shape both the destruction and the protection of the environment, and examines the role of individuals and states in the ecological crisis.
