The allotment garden as a site of architectural culture and the city’s green lung? The exhibition presents various perspectives on the significance of allotment gardens in our city and society. Artistic, scientific, architectural, and historical contributions offer a glimpse through the hedge at the underestimated role of allotment gardens and their origins in Saxony.

The title »Kleingarten Eden« suggests a kind of utopia: the idea of one’s own little patch of land, which can be cultivated and designed according to one’s own wishes, and whose produce one can harvest, promises fulfilment. But what does that say about us and our society? What does this have to do with public and private life, possession and ownership? Is the allotment garden a mirror of our society – on a small scale? The exhibition explores these questions through three contemporary artistic works by Victoria Gentsch, Rojo & Kreß and Janis Vetter, alongside further contributions.