Art amidst the trees

producing a small art exhibition in Battenberg, designed amidst the trees by students, that viewers can walk around.

I see a key task during my residency

in reducing the pressure to be perfect by practising failure and honing curiosity in what’s around us.


I won’t be moving into the flying artist’s room without

my guitar and laptop.

I’d like to steer the students

away from an intellectual approach towards one of sensory perception through improvisation exercises, the creation of three-dimensional forms and nonsense.

„I believe in quality and the survival of the friendliest.“

Sophia Mix, artist-in-residence 2024/2025

I call myself a “multi-dilettante” because

I’m more interested in new technologies than I am in perfect ones.

From walking, dreaming and playing games

I get delight out of testing my capabilities and coming into contact with others in the process.

Planting a tree, plaiting blades of grass or playing with a hammock is 

modern art, because it’s about a good idea that binds us together and also a story of material and its cycles.


What will hopefully remain after my time as artist-in-residence … 

is a sense of self-efficacy in the public space and a lasting freedom of the mind where our own ideas are taken seriously.