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Fertile Ground
Group Exhibition
Donnersbergerstraße 20A, 80634 München-Neuhausen-Nymphenburg, Germany
Anne Earls Boylan, Continuous Cycle, 2025. Photo courtesy of the artist
Opening event: 13.03, Thu 14:00-16:00
Event duration: 01-28.03.2025, 24/7, 12-15.03.2025, 14:00-18:00
Curated by Clodagh Molloy with the support of Donner wie Blitz, Munich, Fertile Ground is an exhibition running throughout March 2025, coinciding with Munich Jewellery Week/Schmuck 2025. This exhibition explores themes of creation, nurturing, and transformation through jewellery, sculpture, body adornment, and writing.
Bringing together works by 36 international artists, makers, and writers, the exhibition delves into the fertile space where ideas of motherhood, care, and creation intersect with the forces of Mother Nature. It reflects on the joys, pressures, and challenges of these roles while also embracing the choice not to pursue parenthood. The show examines fertility in all its forms—biological, intellectual, and environmental—and considers how nurturing, whether of life, ideas, art, or the natural world, shapes personal and artistic expression.
Fertile Ground, also acknowledges the profound relationship between humans and nature, emphasizing how creativity mirrors the cycles of growth, care, and transformation seen in the natural world. The exhibition invites visitors to engage with a wide array of perspectives, exploring the interconnectedness of making, nurturing, and the environment as sources of inspiration and reflection.
Curated by Clodagh Molloy, Artist Jeweller, with the support of Donner wie Blitz, Munich, Fertile Ground runs throughout March 2025, coinciding with Munich Jewellery Week/Schmuck 2025. This exhibition explores creation, nurturing, and transformation through jewellery, sculpture, body adornment, and writing.
As both an artist and a mother, I navigate two worlds, each demanding, each enriching. Art has always been my space of freedom, but motherhood has given me a new lens through which I see and create. These roles are not separate; they weave together, shaping my practice in profound ways. Motherhood has taught me attentiveness. The ability to notice fleeting moments that, when stitched together, form a life. This same attentiveness fuels my art.
With Fertile Ground, I open this conversation to 36 international artists, makers, and writers. The exhibition explores fertility in all its forms. Biological, intellectual, and environmental. Acknowledging the joys, pressures, and choices that come with creation and care. It also reflects on our relationship with the natural world, considering how growth, transformation, and nurturing extend beyond human experience.
Hosted at Donner wie Blitz, Fertile Ground invites visitors to reflect on how making, nurturing, and creativity intertwine, shaping both personal and artistic expression.
Artists:
Aimee Howard-Clinger, Aisling Higgins, Anna Talbot, Anne Earls Boylan, Annelieke Landré, Annika Ingelaere, Ariel Lavian, Caoimhe McGuckin, Chloe Darke, Clare Poppi, Clodagh Molloy, Francesca Santa Subito, Holland Houdek, Ingrid Berg & Sayaka Ito, I-Ying Chiang, Jaki Coffey, Jennifer Wells, Julie Usel, Karin Kent, Lorena Lazard, Lorna Keighron, Maria Camera-Smith, Maria Hanson, Miranda Wagman, Misha Mclean, Nora Sarlak, Rachel Colley, Sam Gleeson, Sara Marzialetti, Sarah Drew, Sunyoung Cheong, Victoria Bulgakova, Wiebke Pandikow, Xiao Chen, Yael Friedman Yayo, Yayan Zhang & Zoe Clark