Beuys' Acorns

In response to the climate emergency, artists @ackroydharvey have installed Beuys’ Acorns, a group of 100 oak trees, on @tate Modern’s South Terrace. Beuys’ Acorns takes its inspiration from the artist and co-founder of the German Green party Joseph Beuys, whose centenary it is this year. From 1982 to 1987, Beuys and his helpers planted 7,000 trees alongside 7,000 basalt rocks in Kassel, Germany. Called 7000 Oaks this ‘social sculpture’, as Beuys called it, permanently altered the cityscape, connecting art to the emerging climate movement. In 2007, British artists Ackroyd & Harvey travelled to Kassel and collected acorns from the original oaks. A hundred of the now-grown trees will come together at Tate Modern, creating a living sculpture – a place for gathering and for rethinking our connections with nature.

Until 14 Nov.

https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/exhibition/beuys-acorns