Welto and the Sacred Bush

Host
Spore Initiative
Location
Berlin
Date
06.06.2025 – 29.03.2026
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Join us on 6 June 2025 at Spore, for the opening of the year-long exhibition “Welto and the Sacred Bush”.

Exhibition with works by Annalee Davis, Aurélie Derard, Françoise Dô, Isambert Duriveau, Guy Gabon, Florence Lazar, Mawongany, elementary school children from École Clémence Caristan in Martinique and more.

Welto, from Creole, refers to what escapes the eye—fugitive forms of life, survival in shadow. The sacred bush evokes healing cultures passed down through land and lineage. Together, they offer a framework for rethinking how we live, relate, and care.

In collaboration with the Martinique-based association Permactivie, Welto and the Sacred Bush finds its roots in the cultural and botanical knowledge cultivated at the margins of plantation systems. The exhibition also brings together ancestral plant practices, communal land care, and artistic responses to environmental collapse. It foregrounds the role of children—not as passive inheritors of crisis, but as active participants in imagining relational, land-based futures. Developed in collaboration with artists and thinkers from the Caribbean and its diasporas, Welto and the Sacred Bush considers the garden and the cultural practices surrounding it as a living archive of resistance, care, and regeneration.

For the opening, Spore is partnering with Refuge Worldwide: DJs Ka Dansé and Jefe Marrón, from the Refuge Worldwide resident roster, will soundtrack the evening session with their individual love letters to Caribbean music.

A public program of events is also rolling out throughout June and the year: you can find out more on the ‘Participate and Visit’ section of our website.

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