For one term, pupils specialising in art, music, education and psychology at the Liechtensteinisches Gymnasium have explored the subject of “plants” in different ways and in different subjects.

Lessons focused on the forest as a place of heightened perception, the tree as a central living being, the structure of the plant cell, and the possibilities of depicting trees. One outcome of their work on the subject of "art and artificiality" was the three-dimensional gourmet still lifes made of clay.

The Liechtensteinisches Gymnasium was founded by the Marist Brothers as a private school, the "Collegium Marianum", in Vaduz in 1937. Since 1981, the Gymnasium has been a public school run by the state of Liechtenstein. The school lasts seven years and ends with A-levels, with the prime goal being to give its students a broad education and to prepare them for studying at university. The school is not only a site of scientific thought and work but also a place of visual, process-based learning. With regard to art education, the challenge is to give students an appreciation and knowledge of the discipline of art in one double lesson a week.


Project space 'Parliament of Plants'
17 July 2020–28 March 2021

As part of the exhibition Parliament of Plants, the admission-free 'Seitenlichtsaal' is conceived as a changing, growing "project space". It links the immediate outside world with questions of art and will enablemeetings between a wide range of scientific and artistic-poetic approaches to and perspectives on the plant kingdom.

A production of Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, curated by Christiane Meyer-Stoll with Annett Höland, co-curator of the project space.

More pictures to this exhibition

  • Liechtensteinisches Gymnasium
    Photo: Sandra Maier
  • Liechtensteinisches Gymnasium
    Photo: Sandra Maier
  • Liechtensteinisches Gymnasium
    Photo: Sandra Maier
  • Liechtensteinisches Gymnasium
    Photo: Sandra Maier
  • Liechtensteinisches Gymnasium
    Photo: Sandra Maier
  • Liechtensteinisches Gymnasium
    Photo: Sandra Maier
  • Liechtensteinisches Gymnasium
    Photo: Sandra Maier