Behind the Pavillion (WT)
Hubert Hasler Soloshow
Curated by Denise Parizek
Vernissage 1.10.2026
Duration 2.10. – 26.10.2026
“It all began with a 10kg sack of potatoes on a bus from Münster to the province of North Rhine-Westphalia, which was allowed to travel in its own seat.
I have been studying neophytes, non-native plants, for over a decade now. These are plants that conquer their perceived new home mainly through human transport, collecting enthusiasts or landscaping.
The first short film about overrun – a car packed to the brim with Japanese knotweed (Fallopia japonica), which I brought to the studio to create an installation and photograph. I am thus actively participating in the spread of these negatively connoted plants.
In Malta, I carry agaves (Agave americana) from one place to another; in South Korea, I found acacias (Robinia pseudoacacia) in a remote location near a very old temple; and on Felhidhoo, an island in the Vaavu Atoll in the Maldives, I help damiana (Turnera ulmifolia) to get from one island to another, and much more.
My overrun short films are a testimony to human activity, accompanied by the unstoppable mixing and spread of these unwelcome plants, symptomatic of a constantly changing society.”
huberthasler @instagram
The Art of Economy and Habits by Hubert Hasler
Based on the idea of philosophy of ecology Hubert Hasler addresses his actual questions in his art works. He presents a different perspective and a multi leveled possibility of interpretation into the environmental ethics. The aim of the philosophy of ecology is to clarify and critique the ‘first principles’, which are the fundamental assumptions present in science and the natural sciences. The idea that living and non- living beings are related and interconnected components in the biospherical web. It is essential to understand the system of the biosphere and the components as a whole and complex field. But his view isn’t romantic like in Henry David Thoreau Walden or the French philosopher Jean-Jaques Rousseau. Hasler is aware of the absolute importance of the issue and the intransigence of large companies and corrupt politicians. He subversively weaves socio-political themes into the topic of nature, such as xenophobia in the neophyte project #overrun, authoritarian politicians in , and the danger of AI optimisation in Beauty never dies.
Denise Parizek, 2026
