Ulrich Rückriem’s Artist Garden

Landscape as an Extended Sculpture

Ulrich Rückriem’s first opportunity to design a landscape for his sculptures arose when the outside areas at Sinsteden were being planned and realised from 1993 onwards. Prior to the construction of the exhibition halls, these outside areas had primarily been used for agricultural purposes. Various sections were created, which were finished in temporal succession and added to each other consecutively: the first, which is strictly symmetrical and includes sculptures, is located between the exhibition halls and the farm buildings of the agricultural museum; the second was created at a later date and resembles a forest edge; and finally there is the meadow orchard.