KURA Land Art Installation Opens at La Nave Va in Berrocalejo, Spain
In Berrocalejo, Cáceres, Extremadura, Spain, there's this amazing outdoor sculpture park called La Nave Va, and it just unveiled KURA, a land art project by Studio Paisajeencontrado. Andrey Brito is the curator behind it, and the installation features work from artists like Kika Goldstein, Kmilo Morales, and landscape architect Ismael Pizarro. KURA is built using materials like straw, earth, stones, and local seeds, and it includes an amphitheater, a Mediterranean garden, and a walking trail. Visitors are guided by two curved straw walls to stunning views of an olive tree and holm oak. During the spring equinox opening, guests planted native wildflowers, and there's an ongoing program to track Mediterranean species in collaboration with the Polytechnic University of Madrid's Plant Germplasm Bank ‘César Gómez Campo.’
Key facts
- KURA is a land art installation by Paisajeencontrado at La Nave Va in Berrocalejo, Cáceres, Extremadura, Spain.
- The project was curated by Andrey Brito and involves visual artists Kika Goldstein and Kmilo Morales, and landscape architect Ismael Pizarro.
- Materials include straw, earth, stones, and native seeds.
- The installation comprises an amphitheater, an experimental Mediterranean garden, and a walking path.
- Two curved straw walls create a narrow passage that opens to views of a centuries-old olive tree and an old holm oak.
- During the spring equinox inauguration, participants sowed native wildflowers and grassland species including Centaurea cyanus, Papaver rhoeas, and Plantago lanceolata into the straw.
- A 200-square-meter natural meadow serves as a site for botanical observation and experimentation.
- Seeds are stored off-site in collaboration with the Plant Germplasm Bank ‘César Gómez Campo’ at the Polytechnic University of Madrid (BGV-UPM).
Entities
Artists
- Andrey Brito
- Kika Goldstein
- Kmilo Morales
- Ismael Pizarro
- Christina Vergopoulou
Institutions
- Studio Paisajeencontrado
- La Nave Va
- Polytechnic University of Madrid
- Plant Germplasm Bank ‘César Gómez Campo’
- designboom
Locations
- Berrocalejo
- Cáceres
- Extremadura
- Spain
- Madrid