secret gardens Rolandswerth

Going by the name of Bittermann & Duka, this artist duo set out from the idea that people perceive landscape and nature as images. Their work secret gardens of rolandswerth also proceeds from this notion. The theoretical starting point for their redesign of the 19th-century gardens came from the German Romantic poet Novalis (1772–1801). Visitors are challenged to track down a quotation from his 1798 collection of writings
Das allgemeine Brouillon. The quotation – “Die vollendete Speculation führt zur Natur zurück” (“The speculation completed leads back to nature”) – has been scattered like a puzzle across a gate, a tower and the letter sculpture
on the steps near the Rhine. Bats and wild bees are welcome to inhabit the concrete tower of plants designed by Bittermann & Duka. Records of this
historically significant location are kept in the former greenhouse.

Caroline Bittermann works in Le Soler, France
Peter Duka born 1954 in Munich, lives and works in Berlin