Landscape
Highlights
Bewildered (Helt Ør i Plantagen)
In a site-specific installation and interactive walk, Anne Mølleskov led participants along a 1.5 km route marked by a pink thread, guiding them off established paths into a disorienting journey that challenged perceptions of landscape and wilderness
Sounding Out Pedar Balke
Have you heard of Peder Balke? If the answer is no, we hadn’t either, so it came as a great surprise when we were approached by the National Gallery to do a participatory walk “Sounding out Peder Balke”. As it turns out his work was extraordinary, as was his life. This Norwegian artist, who in the
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Selkirk exhibition explores art of walking
A compelling new exhibition by acclaimed textile artist and educator Muriel Prince is now open at Halliwell’s House Museum, Selkirk, offering visitors an immersive journey through landscape, memory and creative discovery. Source: Selkirk exhibition explores art of walking
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Grand Tour 2026: Twelve Years Walking
Around 2011, the Nau Côclea Contemporary Art Centre entered a moment of crisis, and so did I. It was not only a question of funding. I was also concerned with questions of format and with the relationship between audiences, artists and artworks, a relationship too often reduced to mere consumption. At the centre, people moved
• Museo Barda del Desierto
Barda del Desierto Museum (mBDD) is an open-air contemporary art museum in Northern Patagonia. Visitors walk through the steppe landscape, accessing site-specific digital works via QR codes, linking art, architecture, territory, and technology.
Displacing territories: Project for the border Brazil/Uruguay
Displacing Territories: Project for the Brazil/Uruguay Border is a journey as a solitary traveler that the artist undertook at the end of April through the border zone of the pampas, specifically from Barra do Quaraí to Pelotas.
Books
Walking pieces
Dove Cottage
Mike Collier’s works at Dove Cottage transform Dorothy Wordsworth’s journals into abstract visuals, highlighting her walks through the Lake District. Using pastels and text, he maps her movements, rhythms, and observations, linking walking with poetic and artistic expression.
Still Visible After Gezi
In Still Visible After Gezi, Roberley Bell documents 16 Istanbul trees photographed in 2010 and revisited in 2015. The installation traces memory, survival, and urban change, using frames to show each tree’s past, present, and absence after the city’s transformations.
Articles on WLC
Walking images into place: WAC encounters and the anima of Prespa
In summer 2025, for one entire week, walking became the defining activity in Prespa, a mountainous transboundary landscape where two ancient freshwater lakes traverse Greece, Albania, and North Macedonia. Through acts of healing, experiencing, resisting and becoming, WAC 25 explored walking as a multifaceted practice as part of the wider, four-year Creative Europe project “Walking
Articles elsewhere
35. Václav Cílek, To Breathe With Birds: A Book of Landscapes
I discovered Václav Cílek’s To Breathe With Birds: A Book of Landscapes through Robert Macfarlane’s The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot, where the last essay, “Bees of the Invisible,” is mentioned. I had read that essay, but not the rest of the book until the past week. What a strange book! Odd and oddly … Continue reading 35. Václav Cílek, To Breathe With Birds: A Book of Landscapes →
• A Charity Readathon
Hello. At 17:00 today I am reading some of my walking poetry (for 15 minutes) as part of a 24hr charity Readathon at Jesmond Library. Donations are split 50:50 between the library and the National Literacy Trust (https://www.justgiving.com/campaign/readathon?utm_medium=CA&utm_source=CL). The whole … Continue reading →
• Events
WALC Confluence 11 – Inspiring the next generation of walking artists
Fred Adam and Geert Vermeire host this special Confluence to announce the launch of an online course on walking art and an interactive map to strengthen engagement with walking artists and collectives across the WALC ecosystem. There follows a presentation at 20h CET by Yannis Ziogas regarding the Encounter to take place in Prespa in
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+7 Walking, Ruins, and Rural Communities: The Making of the Pisidia Heritage Trail
You are invited to the online lecture of Yazılıkaya Living Lab: Adaptive Futures for Rural Heritage course, Walking, Ruins, and Rural Communities: The Making of the Pisidia Heritage Trail by Işılay Gürsu (BIAA) on 7 November 2025.
Song of the Path walkshop
Workshop Leaders: Rosie Montford’s exhibition ‘Song of the Path’ is on at Gallery 44AD. Her practice explores the dialogue between walking and drawing, seeking out landscapes from which she can physically combine disciplines to work across printmaking, drawing and bookmaking. Vicky Hunter is a Visiting Research Fellow in dance and environmental humanities at Bath Spa University and formerly Professor of Site Dance at the University of Chichester. Her site-specific dance research examines the body’s engagement with space and place through considering bodily, spatial and kinetic engagements with environments. Vicky has produced a number of site dance performance works and a book publication Site, Dance and Body: Movement, Materials and Corporeal Engagement (2021). How to book: This event is FREE but places are limited
Videos
Links
Walking – Vanessa Grasse
