Some of the best exhibitions are ones that don’t take themselves too seriously and one of our recent favourites is an ongoing exhibition at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design in Germany. ‘Caution! Christmas Tree!’ takes the festive fir as its unlikely subject matter, in a vast array of clever creations and unlikely situations.
Click here to see the trees.
The whole thing started in 2004 when the university hosted an un-curated Christmas tree exhibition, inviting students, professors, artists and designers to submit a representation of the familiar Christmas tree shape in whatever guise they wished. And it’s since become something of a tradition for the university, as the collection shows.
Ranging from minuscule models to whole buildings, the range of interpretations and media is impressive to say the least. The ongoing project is a light-hearted exercise in lateral creative thinking and inadvertently acts as an important lesson to students of the school, that humour and creativity aren’t mutually exclusive.
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