A garden grown and shared. DIM programme

Plant life is life as complete exposure, in absolute continuity and total communion with the environment (…). One cannot separate the plant—neither physically nor metaphysically—from the world that accommodates it. It is the most intense, radical, and paradigmatic form of being in the world.

The Life of Plants, Emanuele Coccia

As part of our celebrations for International Museum Day, the IVAM will be re-greening and installing a programme to activate the ephemeral garden growing in its hall. The Centre Julio González will be home to this garden from 18–21 May, rethinking its own spaces and turning them into meeting places, resting grounds and spaces for enjoyment.

María Pedro Ferrer, Javier Rivera Linares and Jaime García Mira’s installation ¡Un jardín en el museo! (A Garden in the Museum!) is a green proposal for the present and future of the museum. Its intention is to create dialogue in the IVAM hall space between plants, the building and the people inhabiting its spaces, to give space to think about the importance of re-naturalising cities and their architecture.

From Thursday 18 May to the end of the same week, the ephemeral garden in the IVAM will host actions, guided visits, encounters, activities, workshops and specific programmes, as well as other things that will blossom in the course of these events. We want to make a space for sharing, for dialogue and thinking inside the museum, from a different perspective, with other viewpoints and visual, tactile and/or auditory sensations.

The entrance to the museum will be free on the day of May 18, as well as the Night of the Museums – Saturday 21 from 7:00 p.m. Access to the intervention A garden in the museum! it will be free and free every day.

Detailed programme of events

PROGRAMME OF EVENTS

Thursday 18 May
10:00 A garden has blossomed!
Child education. Group closed to invitations (CEIP Dr. Olóriz).

A garden has blossomed in the museum! Do plants have a sound? What do their scents evoke in us?

Mediated by Massa Salvatge.

13:00 See you in the garden: mediators and collaborators meet
General public – come if you feel curious.

Just before lunch, aperitif time, we’ll sit down in the garden to meet the collaborators in charge of the IVAM public and educational programmes to share their experiences, plants and thoughts.

17:30 Finissage of L’extraordinari!

We say goodbye to this expanded project on artistic leisure time which focused attention on families living in the vecinity of the museum.

Directed by Colectivo Viridian.

18:00 Crossing the garden, opening up our programmes. Poliglotía, Els Grans

Members of two of the groups which inhabit the museum space – Els Grans and Poliglotía: Escuela de Saberes diversos – will be meeting in the garden to share experiences and mediation.

Led by Paco Inclán, members of Els Grans and Poliglotía, and IVAM mediating staff.

Friday 19 May

11:15 A museum not for saying “No”… and not the garden museum either
High school education. Group closed to invitations (IES Misericòrdia).

Can we shout inside a museum? Can we put a flowerpot inside one? What about singing to a flowerpot inside a museum?

Mediated by Gema Gil and Óscar Blanco.

12:00 Rapsòdia en verd workshop. Mediation and observation around the IVAM’s ephemeral garden
Special needs education. Group closed to invitation (CRIS Sant Pau).

Using Mort Garson’s album Plantasia as our inspiration, we’ll be exploring the links between the natural landscape and the visual; between subject, nature, culture and the dialogues between them, focusing particular attention on different forms of perception.

A proposal by Sofía Alemán, with the IVAM team of mediators.

17:30 A garden has blossomed!
Child education / families (Ages 3‒6).

A garden has grown in the museum! Do plants have a sound? What do their scents evoke?
Mediated by Massa Salvatge.

19:00 Listen Chorus of Dawn
The dawn chorus is the morning song of birds at the beginning of a new day, a phenomenon that intensifies in spring in temperate countries. In 2022, within the program of the IVAM Presentes Densos, curated by Migue Martínez, the recording of the sunrise choir was made live in the tower in the Albufera de València Natural Park at dawn on May 1, recording the singing of robins, warblers, whiskers, flamingos, nightingales and other birds of the wetland.

Saturday 20 May

12:00 Rapsòdia en verd workshop. Mediation and observation around the IVAM’s ephemeral garden

For adults and young people.

Using Mort Garson’s álbum Plantasia as our inspiration, in this session specifically aimed at adult members of the public interested in new forms of creation using photography, we’ll be exploring the links between the natural landscape and the visual; between subject, nature, culture, and the dialogues between them.
A proposal by Sofía Alemán with the IVAM team of mediators.

19:00 Guided visit to the exhibition Aref El Rayess. Works (1958‒1978)

This special visit to the recently-opened Aref El Rayess exhibition will end up with participants occupying and talking about the museum’s ephemeral garden.

Language: Spanish. IVAM mediating staff.

20:00 Visit to the intervention ¡Un jardín en el museo!

María Pedro and Javier Rivera will show us the references they have used for inspiration, how they have structured the garden, its itineraries and living areas, the Mediterranean species they have used, the number of plants and trees, why they have placed them that way… In short, what did they seek to provoke in the people who will visit the installation.

21:30 Bonfire of Bosc geometric by Alfredo Ruiz

Camins cap a la modernitat a les falles exhibited the oeuvre of the artist Alfredo Ruiz. At the centre of the exhibition was his falla Bosc geometric. Una escultura inédita, which represented the forested, colourful, lively place which was the source of the artist’s ideas.
Beauty, burn bright!

22:30 Guided visit to the exhibition Open Creation and its Enemies: Asger Jorn in situation

After the special guided visit to the exhibition of Asger Jorn’s work, the group will be accompanied to the garden in the hall of the museum to learn more about this ephemeral work.
Language: Valencian. IVAM mediating staff.

Sunday 21 May

12:00 Rapsòdia en verd workshop. Mediation and observation around the IVAM’s ephemeral garden

For families. Using Mort Garson’s album Plantasia as our inspiration, we’ll be exploring the links between the natural landscape and the visual; between subject, nature, culture and the dialogues between them, focusing particular attention on different forms of perception.

A proposal by Sofía Alemán with the IVAM team of mediators.

12:00 Guided visit to the exhibition La Nave 1984‒1991

This visit to the exhibition by Valencian design group La Nave will be combined with a short rest in the ephemeral garden now occupying the IVAM.
Language: Spanish. IVAM mediating staff

13:00 A plant on my balcony!

The installation ¡Un jardín en el museo! includes a series of flowerpots holding aromatic herbs. These will be shared out among visitors on Sunday 21 from 13:00 onwards. In addition to the plants, at the same time, a selection of seeds of native varieties (melon, cucumber and alficoz) will be freely distributed, thanks to the collaboration with the Germplasm Bank project of the University Institute for the Conservation and Improvement of Agrodiversity Valencian from the Polytechnic University of Valencia of the researchers María José Diez Niclos and María Belén Picó Sirvent.