Exhibition Dates: 24–25 May 2025
Location: TURBA Factory Berlin, Teilestrasse 11-16, 12099 Berlin, Germany
As part of Open Studios Tempelhof 2025, Shivani Luithle presents Botanical Bodies, an exhibition that investigates the colonial and scientific legacies embedded in botanical illustration. Through a multidisciplinary approach, Luithle examines how visual representations have historically rendered plants—and, by extension, bodies—as passive or exotic, shaping narratives of otherness.
Developed during a recent residency with support from artist-technician Alan Horsley, the exhibition features new mould-based sculptural works that fuse botanical and anatomical forms into fictional plant-human hybrids. The presentation includes a series of wall sculptures, a large floor sculpture, and a wearable sculptural piece, accompanied by a collection of paintings and a spoken word soundscape that plays throughout the space.