GREENHOUSE

Greenhouse is a nomadic, traveling participatory performance that transforms with each place through the voices of local artists and participants.

The journey of Greenhouse begins with the Places of Invincibility that arose in Kyiv in the winter of 2022. Fragile tents, improvised shelters with heating, where people gathered in times of war and crisis to share information, drink tea, recharge their phones, and find courage in one another’s presence. From this image unfolds the metaphor of the greenhouse: transparent, delicate, and vulnerable – yet also a catalyst for accelerated growth, for the possibility of another atmosphere. A living space inside the impossible – like our planet in the vastness of space.

At its core, Greenhouse is guided by a recurring question: Can we create spaces of listening, sharing, and making – beyond ideology and origin – by acknowledging every emotion as true, and as a way of connecting?

The idea begins with a simple gesture: people gathering around a terrarium a structure within a structure whose contents change from place to place. Together with local artists, we develop a metaphor rooted in the local context. This metaphor sparks collective practices – sharing emotions and stories, singing, moving – and also shapes the terrarium itself.

Greenhouse is not a touring piece but an ongoing process. Each invitation becomes a local co-composition. Together with artists, choreographers, singers, activists, and a participating audience, we create site-specific rituals of gathering and resonance.

Along its journey, Greenhouse has brought together people from countries at war – encounters that would rarely occur, let alone lead to shared creation. Ukraine, Russia, Georgia, Belarus, Azerbaijan, Sri Lanka, Turkey – voices that would otherwise remain divided.

Dramaturgy, Technics Constantin von Thun / Vocal-Composition, Concept Paulina Miu Kühling (Flensburg, Hebbel am Ufer, Yerevan) / Gohar Sargsyan (Yerevan) / Assitance Set Design Vira Khorsun (Flensburg, Hebbel am Ufer) / Composition Nino Davadze (Tbilisi) / Body work Natia Chikvaidze (Tbilisi) / Artists Asortymentna Kimnata (Ivano Frankivsk)