Landscapes of Poetry

During the finissage of her exhibition at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, artist-in-residence Natsuki Oshiro invites visitors to join the workshop Landscapes of Poetry. Expanding her multidisciplinary practice—where poetry, painting, and drawing flow into one another—participants are encouraged to physically engage by folding small zines and drawing on them. Using Rainer Maria Rilke’s Klage/Lament, a poem of stars and night skies, the workshop extends the exhibition into a performative, intimate act of making. Starting from Oshiro’s graphic exploration of shifting viewpoints within a landscape, visitors create a three-dimensional object that becomes a vessel for their own interpretations of landscape and verse. Guided by the artist, the workshop offers a shared space to connect with each other and with her evolving ideas.