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The Flowerbeds
Anita Duller & Hannah Stippl
Born 1975/1968
Live and work in Vienna, Austria
www.thefl owerbeds.com
Anita Duller & Hannah Stippl are Vienna-based THE FLOWERBEDS have participated in a number of group
artists and landscape designers, working together shows and projects across Europe, including; (Landscape)
with Flowers, IG Bildende Kunst, Vienna, Austria (2013),
under the label "The Flowerbeds" since 2010. The Mural, Geffreye Museum, Chelsea Fringe, London, UK
focus of their joint work is painting, installation and (2013), Woodland Boudoir, Kensington, London, UK (2013),
the design of perennial beds. Research into visual Paint before you plant! Workshop, Chelsea Fringe, London
patterns and the exploration of plants and their UK (2012), Young ART Lounge, Zürcher Kantonalbank,
Vienna, Austria (2012) and Hosta Superstar - A horticultural
cultural and artistic use, forms an important part of installation, with Tony Heywood, Botanical Garden, Vienna,
their practice. Austria (2011).
Their paintings with patterned rollers evoke an ANITA DULLER studied Landscape Design at the University
of Applied Arts Vienna. Her main interest is in the process
ambiguous impression of the natural, without oriented development of designs for garden and landscape
recourse to mimetic natural structures, and open and the photographic and fi lmic observation of plants and
up a wide fi eld for botanical associations. Their plantings. Since 2013 she has been Assistant Professor at the
murals, installations and plantings create a dense University of Applied Arts Vienna, Landscape Art.
atmosphere of blooming fl owers and thriving plants. HANNAH STIPPL studied Free Graphics and Painting at
As trans-disciplinary work is the basic principle of the University of Applied Arts Vienna, where she currently
The Flowerbeds, their collaboration provides the teaches in the Department of Landscape Art. In her artistic
possibility to negotiate the contents both of their work she questions habits of perceptions of plants and
nature. As a curator and landscape theorist she focuses
scientifi c, curatorial and artistic approach. on questions of aesthetics and participation, dealing with
plant breeding, derelict landscapes, and other possibilities of
Cornucopia, the horn of plenty, is a symbol of the landscape perception.
abundance that man hopes to fi nd in nature: the
lush vegetation with an exuberant wealth of fl owers
and the rich harvest that offers paradisiac comfort
and supreme aesthetic pleasure. The installation
explores overlapping and mixing, the cracks and
fi ssures of these desires, which are only effective as
ideological positions with fetishistic character. Nature
is no longer self-evident, it is socially constituted,
marked by man, remodelled, arranged, killed or
artifi cially held alive. In short: an artifi cial, technically
fashioned nature. This is especially true where nature
is sought in its representation, it is artifi cial, even as a
natural monument or conservation area, a park, an
image, a planting, even as a single plant - nature, in
all these forms is “Techno nature”.

Right (x3): Outdoors, 2014, Painting & Photography.
h: 90cm w: 125cm, Artists’ Collection.
Photograph Credit: Anita Duller & Walter Jaklitsch
Left (x3): Villa Jäger, 2014, Photography. Next pages: Cornucopia, 2013, Painting & Planting.
h: 90cm w: 125cm, Artists’ Collection. h: 300cm w: 300cm d: 300cm, Artists’ Collection.
Photograph Credit: Anita Duller & Hannah Stippl Photograph Credit: Anita Duller & Hannah Stippl

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