Anti-memorial

Jenny Holzer's another work - Anti-memorial in Nordhorn, Germany, containing a black garden.

In the early nineties in Nordhorn, a district town in Lower Saxony, on the German-Dutch border, Jenny Holzer chose a garden as her medium for the first time. Even though Holzer felt that using electronics were too insensitive for the project’s location, she took the risk, with expert advice from the American landscape artist Dee Johnson and the local municipal gardener, of designing a municipal park by the war memorial “Am Langemarckplatz,” built there in 1929.