Arts venues including Tate, Serpentine and Baltic stage simultaneous artist interventions commemorating Gustav Metzger’s Remember Nature project.
Sixteen arts organisations across England will stage a coordinated Day of Action on 4th November as part of Remember Nature 2025, an initiative marking the tenth anniversary of Gustav Metzger’s 2015 art project. The participating institutions include Tate, Serpentine, Kettle’s Yard, FACT, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art and Turner Contemporary.
The day has been curated by Andrea Gregson and Jo Joelson, working with regional arts partners. Each partner has nominated a lead artist to coordinate place-specific interventions. The 18 participating artists include Cornelia Parker, Eduardo Navarro, Patricia Domínguez, Hamish Fulton, Anya Gallaccio, Paul Harfleet, Nancy Odufona, Youngsook Choi, Harun Morrison, Yu-Chen Wang and A Man Called Adam.
Programming includes participatory performances, artist-led walks, workshops, screenings and installations taking place in galleries, cultural venues and outdoor spaces.
Artist-led walks form a significant component of the programme. Yu-Chen Wang will guide explorations of Manchester’s urban natural environment through Castlefield Gallery, concluding at Hulme Community Garden Centre.
Hamish Fulton will lead walks at Kestle Barton examining the relationship between walking and nature. Paul Harfleet will conduct a walking tour in Liverpool connecting urban space, identity and botanical intervention, referencing The Pansy Project, which has seen over 300 pansies planted at sites of homophobic and transphobic abuse.
Four projects involve collaborations with young people. Cornelia Parker will work with 800 primary school children at Kettle’s Yard to create an installation. At Turner Contemporary in Margate, Anya Gallaccio has designed an apple orchard featuring more than 30 varieties to be planted by local primary school children. Laura Hopes will lead workshops at KARST in Plymouth exploring tree protection through scaffolding, whilst Harun Morrison will work with Ikon Youth Programme in Birmingham.
A call-to-action film will be screened at Tate Modern’s Starr Cinema and online. Hauser & Wirth will host a special event as part of its Off The Record series. The artistic interventions will be live streamed and recorded, with documentation shared via remembernature.art. Gustav Metzger, who died in 2017, initiated the original Remember Nature project in 2015.
