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Green Train – Kunst und Nachhaltigkeit auf leisen Wegen

Freitag, 30. Januar 2026 · 56 min

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Green Train – Kunst und Nachhaltigkeit – eine Bewegung zwischen Stille und Sinnlichkeit

Die Reise ist Teil von Nina Backmans Silence Project – doch dieser Podcast steht für sich.
Wer die vorherige Folge kennt, wird Zusammenhänge entdecken. Wer neu einsteigt, wird eingeladen, sich dem Thema über Stimmen, Landschaften, Beobachtungen, Kunst und Nachhaltigkeit zu nähern.

Was passiert, wenn Kunst nicht belehrt, sondern begleitet?
Wenn Stille nicht Leere bedeutet – sondern Präsenz?

Gäste

Nina Backman
Künstlerin, Kuratorin und Initiatorin des Silence Project.
Sie verbindet künstlerisches Denken mit sozialem und ökologischem Bewusstsein – stets mit einer Haltung der Achtsamkeit, Offenheit und respektvollen Neugier. Das Projekt Green Train führt sie gemeinsam mit Akteur:innen aus ganz Europa durch Landschaften und Institutionen – und lässt dabei Fragen entstehen, statt Antworten zu inszenieren.

Mariella Salerno · European Sleeper
Reflektiert als Marketing Communication Manager den gesellschaftlichen Wert von entschleunigtem Reisen – und warum Mobilität immer auch gesellig und politisch ist.

Ioana Bacanu & Matheus Mouraria · Mediamatic Amsterdam
Mediamatic erforscht neue Formen von Kunst und Nachhaltigkeit sowie Gesellschaft – künstlerisch, experimentell, wach.

Viola Karsten · Goethe-Institut Amsterdam
Bringt internationale Perspektiven ins Gespräch – über kulturelle Praxis, Verantwortung und das, was im Dialog zwischen Ländern entsteht.

Bram Opdam · Landgoed Welna
Ein Refugium, das Kunst und Nachhaltigkeit sowie Wald und Rückzug vereint. Opdam erzählt, wie Stille und Natur als Lebensform wirken können.

Gerbrand Burger · Thinking Forest Foundation
Ein Blick auf das Denken mit dem Wald – nicht als Metapher, sondern als ernsthafte künstlerisch-ökologische Praxis.

Eine Reise zwischen Berlin und Amsterdam

Der Green Train ist keine klassische Ausstellung, kein statisches Projekt. Er ist Bewegung.
Diese Folge fängt O-Töne, Pausen, Zuggeräusche und Gespräche ein – mal unterwegs im Zug, mal bei Mediamatic, mal in der Natur.
Der Fokus liegt auf Erfahrung – nicht auf Erklärung.

Warum diese Folge jetzt?

Weil Europa sich verändert. Weil Mobilität politisch bleibt. Und weil Kunst in Zeiten des Wandels nicht erklärt – sondern einlädt.
Diese Episode setzt ein stilles Zeichen für internationale Zusammenarbeit, für nachhaltige Wege und für eine neue Form des Zuhörens.

Zur Folge

Diese Podcastreise über Kunst und Nachhaltigkeit begleitet den Green Train durch Stimmen, Begegnungen und Zwischenräume. Sie dokumentiert keine Ergebnisse – sondern macht Prozesse hörbar.
In einer Zeit, in der vieles laut und beschleunigt ist, entsteht hier ein Raum für leises Nachdenken – über die Verbindung von Kunst, Natur, Mobilität und Gesellschaft.
Die O-Töne aus dem Zug, aus Amsterdam, aus dem Wald fügen sich zu einem Mosaik der Gegenwart.
Eine hörbare Reise – leicht, verbindend, offen für neue Perspektiven.

Themen der Folge

Kunst und Nachhaltigkeit · Mobilität und europäische Wege · Leises Reisen und kulturelle Bewegung · Internationale Kollaboration · Natur, Wald und Rückzug als künstlerisches Konzept · Sinnlichkeit im politischen Raum · Kunstprojekte zwischen Institutionen und Alltag

Weiterhören

Weitere Gespräche zu Kunst, Gesellschaft und nachhaltigem Denken finden sich in den Bereichen:
· Silence Project – Nina Backman (dieleichtigkeitderkunst.de/nina-backman-silenc…)
· Kultur & Gesellschaft (dieleichtigkeitderkunst.de/category/kultur-und…)
· Internationale Perspektiven (dieleichtigkeitderkunst.de/?s=englisch)
· Ökologische Praxis (dieleichtigkeitderkunst.de/?s=NAtur)

Links & Credits

Silence Project (silenceproject.fi/silence-project.html)
Nina Backman (ninabackman.com)
ARTPRESS – Ute Weingarten (artpress-uteweingarten.de)
Landgoed Welna (landgoedwelna.nl)
European Sleeper (europeansleeper.eu/de?gad_source=1&gad_cam…)
Mediamatic (mediamatic.net)
Goethe-Institut Amsterdam (goethe.de/ins/nl/de/index.html)
Thinking Forest Foundation (thinkingforestfoundation.org)

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Green Train: Zukunft im Nachtzug säen – eine dreiminütige filmische Kurzdokumentation über künstlerische Impulse, ökologisches Handeln und gemeinsame Perspektiven zwischen Berlin und Amsterdam.
Mit Bildern von Marco Berger, Text von Olivera Tornau. (instagram.com/olivera.tornau)
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A gentle movement between art and sustainability

This episode follows the Green Train from Berlin to Amsterdam – a mobile artistic project initiated by Finnish artist Nina Backman as part of her Silence Project.

What happens when art moves through landscapes, rather than spaces?
When it listens, instead of performing?
When mobility becomes dialogue – and slowness becomes a political gesture?

This journey includes voices from:
· European Sleeper – reflecting on the politics of train travel and deceleration
· Mediamatic Amsterdam – exploring new forms of sustainability through art and experimentation
· Goethe-Institut Amsterdam – shaping cross-cultural exchange and dialogue
· Landgoed Welna – inviting retreat and nature as an artistic method
· Thinking Forest Foundation – engaging with the forest not as metaphor, but as a method of thinking

Together, they reflect on artistic processes, ecological awareness and European collaboration – between forest and platform, between presence and pause.
A quiet journey, captured on the move.
This episode is recorded in English.

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Nina Backman, Initiatorin des Green Train und Silence Project

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Hello everyone and welcome to my Podcast die Leichtigkeit der Kunst, my name ist Claudia Linzel. Special Journey Aber the Green train, a night train for of chesters. Crerated by Finish Artist Nina Backmann. Episode with Nina Silence was, Today Reshift into movement. From Berlin to Amsterdam to Landgood Wellner.

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Und. Change yourselfs. So like for meets also seed of grove and and, like and I hope this three that I blanted here today we presence this äh interne world, and I hope to seeat floorishing over the next years. I said first that this green must big stand, das Moltri. I don't know to say. I dream to be a green Planet. But this like ähm.

For see a Greenplanet. So, my Mom is planting inside of forcef the intention of eat being more a green Planet beyond the words, Ich don't sieht jetzt she's imagining they want they will happen. And I am planting with in myself the zero possibility there my mom with be a life to see eat happen. Ein Remain from this project for you for others for the future. I think just for, for to dates auch so für die Connections that we made, we have had some lovely conversations. Da kann auch so beverlob in a it something that is the some my like a seed and äh sorry.

Ja, you can act maybe you meet again maybe äh we came to the so media magic no more oft and maybe we stand with the projects, maybe diverse. Yeah with the Artists. And the tree volse day. Hm. I really hope but this action here today of äh this people symbolizes, Moment auf Shift äh in a coachering which we.

Ja, many many years or centuries, curding to you down, curting trees down and that we are actually going starting a moment of for generation allocross äh europe and the planet. Air to be around the Childrun live Alive Wetter inspiriert. I think for meet so the accountability of äh a lot People do not take in nissities, because it don't hot to do things and they don't wanna do it alone. So very take from this see in that we can actually control we have some tony doing wither on hands and even you for dousn seem like a lot we are, Wir very welcome And now from Amsterdam we directly go ja to the Forest, with a thinking forest to land good Wellner.

Love, Landgut Wellner. My second time that because my connection origally for the is the artist äh gell hard Burger, because here invited me, todus signes me there. Wir sehen his brover. Also this is rare the connection a came from, Es beautiful little houses for, Sinas Retreats interesting holy placeter are coilological. Mhm. Foundings and, I this find a very magic of beautiful place. And I think that they are trying to do something a bit if, And I think they have äh interesting way of connecting, very different kind of perspectives. Because it is also a business that they run. Mhm.

Interesting people äh beautiful plates. Good food, good food, oh my god, that was also wonder for Catering, also. Abdando that's very good. Mhm. Ja. Mhm. So we are sours very have you about that connections and also, important to me that we plant some big atries and that we have a, very special place for them and that's that's what we tid with the lind intries. I didn't new that trease young prease. So heavy.

Yes and they were heavy. Yeah. Very very havy. I green. I would say. Fifty killers oder something, Iris Hardwork, well. Yes, favorite quite lot it, that we did that. Okay, that's no listen to brand and get one. Mhm. Äh Aber, Professional practice bin a balance between, what I cho äh so I'm business. So love to work at places where there is in balance to be found between, die Economic Reality and äh social äh ecological challenge.

Ähm, äh I have a Background in Digital. Digital Company, Ich, Agreen Parth after äh becoming cinicle about the Digital worles and having aclimate depression it was time to ähm look for work where good, du thinkst that have an influence and that really change something. Ähm. The digital world? But wants to decision was mades thinks moveds für die, have friend to go back. Dit you years ago. My Digital started with inspiration back in ninety five when the internet was just coming to the nennens.

I worked in the eature and the Digital, in Amsterdam and it was a lot of optimisim about to future of thit so about your lineroad how change society forty good and from that's inne show spark if inspiration I started and agency we are we boot use this distor of elution to make the world a betterplace.

Just blind sympost for cliens had a also a so sho go or in Education or science or culture we also hadsm, Ich. Two thousand and twelve I think two thousand terrorteen think started to shift äh die Online World was more central and around big cooperations. Be came ähm big Business the advertising model of Google and was introduced and it carte be more more about attention and ot about changing the world and before before ninety ninety five what in flements you. Uh, that's why back.

Algurb in ähm Community of äh few familys living together, So that was a fair interesting äh use there, Ah went to the circuled world of Schule and the styling school, also Influenza. And work on a sailing ship for Abo year, In Agrian where used to transport goods by a salin facle of a sailing ship. And that's factly were äh I love behind my Chills Chill and years and, Real lifest.

And here it well now art place a heach rule, Art a nature, sympportant for you, I think it's because of you that artic here now? Ähm well, this in the roots of wheelhouse well but ähm right now we managed to to to let it gro again. I think art is always playing fival row in society when you need new prospectives when äh big questions when äh Mysterries I think Art is actually only answer.

Die. And all in a state like well not their many challenges. Wechsel so greatly benefit from the Artist fuew, Newperspectives compiring things. About the nature the many functions we combine. So it's it's a rushe roll. What is well, now? Wellmer. I can give you like history lecture with might be not so interesting.

600 Hektar, It's been und by family. So it has a line, you're family tradition. And it's so so a company, where we tried to balance the natural ecology, äh Balance Switch, the natural. In that way he good comparat to small country. Where we have all this siming a problems, We are feople liveing here, we're feople fisseting, we have goverments, we have local goverments we have a lot of rules what we want to try new things, We have nails you to take care of which is white underpressure of climate change and not hands of other influences.

We have hour business, so they would that we have first and so and we make products on the state. So jetzt ähm a little country, where of different things happen. And why do you like at to be here to be director of villna? Well I never invisions me as someone being in this row it kind of happens. After Selling my company I was ask in the board to mor Lucus Supervising roll and.

Keine, so Der, Schön. Wo hast du denn porton for you? Work with projects like thinking Forest and the green train together. Wow, es heißt art is vital to everything actually, but also to this, War in many fields and art is crushe and äh thinking forst and verblend heaven äh, Und. And that's so perfect match. So I thinking forest in will nice a really good match the green train Äh Ninas Work is of course also about treas and about nature Ähm it's it's beautiful to bring that to this place. What does plating at remeans for you?

Wir tree's of course a simple for many things as specially delightry but plenty is is also about, Wir also about doing something for the future for the forture. Limetrea und so ultomated of of ähm connecting to the future I think Wir. Start small, that's what I learned by working here. Let's I I hope we are managed to creates what I call the first of the future und, and a this becomes äh a little green have and in a, Society intermoor. And which kind of roots do you want to leave? I would love to leve roots.

Ich solid roots where displace is grounded and is able to, Stroms of the future. It's in the ownership in the, Army do you next sizes here in the clim a change out Love this place to be root it so deep that it's can stand for not our hundred and fifty years and I am so happy that you rooted a bit here in my Podcast. Die Leichtigkeit der Kunst ähm, not being Identified. Thank you brown for your time, was very special. Thank you for coming. Thank you for this comforation. Die Gerbrand.

Came actually after i approdged äh brom the director of here to make a sculpture for this first, Es Stateholders hier in in to äh Align, on the projects so in the mean time I started thinking more about, whood and we are comes from and how it could, Ja äh so of a lorger project involving other people in Collaborations, how that could be compart of my äh practice is and artist. So to Expand my studio practice into the for the speak. Wird so important for you? Well I think because wood is so important for Humanity?

And people don't real likes that maybe sometimes at wood is the Material, that has a biggest, Importance like the biggest roll in in human development. Sins to beginning when we were äh apeving in the trease and making big nests. And äh slowly coming out to the treas walking into the Landscape and starting to build. How do you and well now fine together? Yes well a fend of mine from quiet long ago she good up here.

Äh behinders and äh she dous you any more, but that's two here, I got to know the place. When I was starting to work with whood as a Material for my art. I was looking for a place to make äh isculpture, that good stay in the forest and the nice walter again and I procem take the Director. What is the skyptur about? Ähm well this culpture started for me about the idea that I wanna to create sculptures, but not to them and not preserve them, but put anout in the force, Das kind of a storage for me permanent but not permanent storage of these objects and äh.

So this pretically work here at very now. It's gold actually a tojectually to amaze of tojectories Which is skin of a colled by äh timing gold? British Unthrepologist who is writing about how materials and objects don't really, Exist is final objects or final enterties but day always keep, evolving and becoming and so yeah this would I made äh the Artwork of, has the shape of this boot. But it's no ordly changing and forling apart and Getting software in grey and it will become so again.

And after let in might we gonna three or plant or animal there. And i see some books. Ja good question, it's they you can read ähm Welche Kinder hat er auch von seinem how can i them? What do way them? Ja, by looking at them and thinking about what they might mean eh we the rings is you can see in there and realise äh how much time at takes for the tweet to go and all your others also you and have. What do you ready denn them?

Well I see them partly also es ist symbol for this äh with them of the first. That the. Thinking forest is kind of a double Name. It's like a thinking forest, that is producing this wisdom but also a place to go to to to think like äh and we are sitting here together because where particense of the Green train. What has the green train means to you.

Initiative by Nina Backmann is you know and we met five here to go in Helsinki, And sins then we have captin touch and I have invited here last here äh with the thinking forest foundation in the summer for mit summers evening, Es She had be in Developing this green train project in the mean time and ask me to be a partnerin it.

So also think it's wonderful to invite other artist here is well with their projects and ähm, Äh ja dissens of collaboration and and any growing common project. The Gabriel thanks a lot. Thank you for heading me. Die Janina Back to You. Artworksject. Yeah. Which we can by. You are materialis the nature trees.

Ist der Collectors to supported, Ich. Bei the street and the certificate and that what coms with that äh for the collect to also is the kind of way how to take care of that three There are is apossibility for collectis to by that? I should also mansionart flash? Hohe Selling Artpriends and äh they they wanted to help me out this well so they would the certific it. Und there site and you good by a big tree with the Certificat.

And so we try that. So yeah Stefany, it is possible for the collectis tobay that and I wish day would be more collectise, wo would like to support the project. Mhm. Yeah. And where you wanted to see plans from your project as well? I would like to äh how more museums an Art institutions to GP connected to the project and then I think this thries good beplanted near by Museums as well and also that we would have the small pockets of of silence in inside cities, where we good plant treas wish would be a kind of daily reminder of People also about the importance of platin trees and and about this project because I think it's visualis backing also important your have places, reople can see the treas grow.

And then really I i wish that would go and come everywhere in your and we have now some Australian People who also cuting contact with me and, asking and think wow this is inspiration or be would like to do something like that in Australier so. I think the you know the potential is that you. Do you think nature is mobil for a lot of People when it's cord out Ich importants of our nature.

Ich. And I've be is like that the biggest stretch and a biggest changer, we have at to moment is the his the clima change. And I think we have to in any ways we can. Every individual. I think it's important to try to do something. Also for me as an Artist. Is is just, one way of trying to do something which is connected to my artistic practice. But also, something concrete and good for the inviement. Now we hard some sound by the particence of mediamatic.

Auf Landgut Wellener and I thinking Forest of Mariella Zalano from the European Sleeper. If you look back, we record if you days later, back here in Berlin. Wollte es das Strongest Image your carry with you from the green train. I can't choose one. I there soul many. Mhm. Ist keine many images flashing by. I think the beginning, I will always remember the Korean.

Came to as one we willing a train train are these the treas are you and ähm that was so surprising, so I was not expecting that. Mhm. And äh, I think it was very meaning for to plan the biglinde intreases well and ah just was over wound by the very positive response and how People was so happy bitte we that trease and all the conversations and äh all the new connections and And I have to say I was a very have it you have my sun with me.

So I was very happy to have are time we dosis well, I mean this with äh really wonderful think and that all you very not to now der Journalist with äh joining them journey Literally speaking and also that we had the caramer man Marko we us, we had a wonderful dokumentations of the first äh green train.

And that this with squite lucky to, you have that, so this really mate me very happy die Arte Mediathek. Yes. So this with really wonderfrom. Yeah so we have a really beautiful food itch, also äh of the whole hold trip. Yes and I was also very happy to to to work with Artpress Ute Weingard and whoa have done a fee project now. So this with i was it project on I was reallym.

Haar bitte half heres Well because should did so touch to beautiful marketing for the for the project and all the I mean the hold team that chiha sei, I very much fly can appreciate. Ja, she team is amazing. What you has eng about lightness? What over is come to me, also äh surprise. How much happiness it brings to, GPL Phrases, something as simple as trese together. And maybe that's because it's about doing something.

I think a lot of excited maybe away when you are acting and doing something And maybe there is a lightness in that of doing something acting. Making think tappen, die Nina, I love acting with you, Thank you. Our straily. Imaging that. Ja. If you would come all around the world, if you would go all yes, I would love to do that. It's so inspiring to learn from you, not in that Teaching Whey more in country way. Yeah, Ich.

Thank you for all the trips we did I hope, our journey will rolon. Yes. METI. I was so nice. Thanks a lot for your time and but hey I have to say a big thank you to you as well. I was so happy to have you so thank you so much for think brother. Ich, I ready det. Thank you. And thank you Ute.

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