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7000 Oaks – City Forestation Instead of City Administration (German: 7000 Eichen – Stadtverwaldung statt Stadtverwaltung) is a work of land art by the German artist Joseph Beuys. It was first publicly presented in 1982 at documenta 7 .
- 1982
- Land art
Joseph Beuys’s project 7000 Eichen (7000 Oaks) began in 1982 at Documenta 7 in Kassel, Germany. His plan called for the planting of 7,000 trees—each paired with a columnar basalt stone approximately four feet high and positioned above ground—throughout the greater city of Kassel.
Joseph Beuys's 7,000 Oaks was created in Kassel, Germany in 1982, and pictured here in 2021 (Credit: Alamy) As the world emerges from 16 months of fear and uncertainty caused by a global pandemic ...
‘7000 Oak Trees‘, Joseph Beuys, 1982 ‘7000 Oak Trees‘, Joseph Beuys, 1982. Skip navigation. Shop. Become a Member. Main menu. Art and artists. Our collection ...
Beuys's concerted effort to physically, spiritually and metaphorically alter the city's social spaces - economic, political, and cultural, among others - is what finally constituted a community-wide "social sculpture" (Beuys's own terminology). 7000 Oaks officially began in 1982 at Documenta 7, the international exhibition of modern and ...
- German
- May 12, 1921
- Krefeld, Germany
- January 23, 1986
For Documenta 7 in 1982 Beuys invited the citizens of Kassel to plant 7000 trees throughout the city as part of his 7000 Eichen – Stadtverwaldung statt stadtverwaltung (7000 Oaks – City forestation instead of city administration) project. Each tree was paired with a basalt stone marker, the first of which were planted by Beuys on 16 March 1982.
Social sculpture is a theory developed by the artist Joseph Beuys in the 1970s based on the concept that everything is art, that every aspect of life could be approached creatively and, as a result, everyone has the potential to be an artist. Social sculpture united Joseph Beuys ’s idealistic ideas of a utopian society together with his ...
