Coming weekend Groene Hart Biennale at Boskoop (June 13 – 15)
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Around the coming weekend, June 13 to 15 the Green Heart Biennale will focus on Boskoop, a widely recognised centre of horticulture with a long standing tradition of growing plants, bushes, and trees. How can we relate to the soil in this environment? where is the potential for regenerative methods and approaches?
We discuss these with invited guests, scientists, artists and others, in relation to Christine Hvidt’s art and research project Subterranean.
Subterranean Dialogues #1
Het Groene Huis, Boskoop
Saturday June 13, 13.00 – 16.00
Boomkwekerijmuseum, Boskoop
Monday 15th June, 13.00 – 16.00
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Join us for a day of being with soil in this public artscience gathering!
What is soil and what lives in the soil? What are the different ways of knowing soil and how would we like to relate to it?
The Subterranean Dialogues are sessions opening up these questions through artistic attunement and scientific approaches in a poetic setting.
Join us for a listening session hosted by artist Christine Hvidt, a soil literacy experience hosted by soil biologist Giulia Bongiorno (Wageningen University & Research) followed by a shared dialogue.
For this first session we will be outdoors at the land of kwekerij Het Groene Huis.
Register:
To sign up for this event please write an email to:
info@groenehartbiennale.nl
This will allow us to prepare the session better.
This gathering is part of the Subterranean project at the Groene Hart Biënnale in Gouda at GOUDasfalt and in Boskoop at Tuinen van Boskoop and Kwekerij Het
Groene Huis 30 May – 21 June 2026.
About Subterranean
Subterranean is an interdisciplinary art–science project combining sound art, machine learning, and ecological inquiry to explore life underground. By analysing soil soundscapes from former tree plantations in the area of Boskoop (NL), it amplifies non-human voices and experiments with new ways of relating to the vibrant soil environments.
The sound sculptures listen live to the soil and analyse the sound forming a dynamic composition based on the sonic character of each particular soil ecology at the three locations. An online digital audiovisual composition allows for direct comparison of the different soil ecologies.
The project invites for listening to and relating with less accessible ecosystems in the ground through asking what does healthy soil sound like? What can listening reveal about species, biodiversity, and soil health? How might ecoacoustics combined with machine-learning deepen our knowledge and relationship with soil and offer other narratives about soil ecologies?
Location
Het Groene Huis
Rijneveld 23
Boskoop
https://www.booyboomkwekerij.nl
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Boskoop Art Market
Tuinen van Boskoop
Sunday, June 14
10 – 17 hrs
On Sunday, June 14, we are joining the annual Boskoop art market.
During this event, Christine Hvidt will lead listening sessions at the listening sculpture installed in the Tuinen van Boskoop public park. The sculpture is part of her art and research project Subterranean.
Subterranean Dialogues #2
Boomkwekerijmuseum, Boskoop
Monday 15th June, 13.00 – 16.00
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Exploring and protecting the living soil through science and art
In this afternoon session (13.00 – 16.00) on Monday June 15 we compare artistic and scientific explorations of the living soil and how they can contribute to protecting subterranean life, which is crucial to the survival of life aboveground. What can the complementary perspectives from the arts and the sciences contribute in their interaction to protecting and the regeneration of life in the soil?
This dialogue is organised in co-operation with the recently launched JUST ART research consortium, of which the Green Heart Biennale is a societal partner. JUST ART is a six year research project that explores questions of climate justice through artistic research. Soil Ecologies is one of the thematic areas examined as part of this extensive research project.
In Boskoop we link this research topic to Christine Hvidt’s Subterranean project. A listening sculpture is installed in the adjacent tuinen van Boskoop public park as part of Subterranean. The sculpture makes the life in the soil audible for the audience.
We enter into dialogue with artist Christine Hvidt, researchers Vasilis Kokkoris and Katja Kwastek, and invite you to join the conversation.
Registration
Attendance is free.
It is appreciated if you can register for this event to help us prepare via:
info@groenehartbiennale.nl
JUST ART
JUST ART: Creating Common Grounds for Climate Justice Through Artistic Research is a six year project funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO) and led by the University of Groningen.
Bringing together artists, researchers, campaigners and communities in rural and urban regions across the Kingdom of the Netherlands, the project aims to cultivate diverse strategies of climate justice through artistic research and creative practice.
Location
Boomkwekerijmuseum
Reijerskoop 52-54
Boskoop
https://boomkwekerijmuseum.nl/nursery-museum
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