Germany's Most Extravagant Plant ExpertTita Giese (b. Nördlingen 1942 lives and works in
Düsseldorf) realizes vegetal landscapes in public settings-urban squares intersections and
gardens around architectural structures. She spent several semesters at the Düsseldorf Academy
of Fine Arts where she studied with Joseph Beuys but she does not want to be seen as an
artist. Focusing on sites in urban and industrial environments she helps nature reclaim a
niche for itself developing unique projects at the intersection between art architecture
urban planning and botany. She planted bamboo on the grounds of the Düsseldorf airport palm
trees on the square in front of Hamburg's Deichtorhallen and creepers inside Munich's
Salvatorpassage. The rushes she envisioned for Kottbusser Tor a square in Berlin were an
exception: the project never progressed beyond the planning stage. The art photographers Thomas
Ruff and Andreas Gursky hired Giese to design their gardens she also collaborated with Herzog
& de Meuron architects Basel on several projects.This book is a catalogue raisonné of sorts
of Tita Giese's oeuvre. With contributions by Joachim Bessing Robert Grunenberg Thomas Ruff
and Pierre de Meuron who says that her work his unlike anyone else's in the world.
