NILS-UDO has travelled all over the globe in his mission of creating Land Artworks, constructed with natural materials, a symphony in harmony with nature. He photographs his site specific Installations and withdraws with no harm, disturbance or damage to the natural ecology. Back in his studio he paints on his favourite subject of natural environment. An oft repeated theme, drawing attention to humanity’s origin, is of the Nest and dwellings.

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His fantastic oeuvre over the last half century consists of several hundred works of Environmental Art in various locations, from his country Germany to far off locations like the Red Rock Canyon in California or an island in the Baltic Sea, in the course, traversing several continents. In many cases he fashions his installations by planting vegetation, e.g. “Planting of 1000 daffodils on a floating island” in Rügen, Baltic Sea, “My May Meadow” - planting with poplar, shrubbery, ask poles and clematis, in Upper Bavaria. “La Couveé’ featured in this show was made in the forest at Île de Porquerolle, France. His materials are primarily drawn from those indigenous to the sites like earth, pampas grass, local flowers, reeds and bamboo, volcanic rock.

 

Numerous publications, replete with photographs of his artworks have been published; Major art institutions, galleries and cultural bodies have sponsored and exhibited his work. Whether urban spaces or the deep womb of forests NILS-UDO’s visual language communicates to all humanity, to simply rejoice in the purity and ephemeral beauty of Mother Nature and leave it unhurt, unblemished.