Publications
2012 Claudia Postel, art historian
The One Earth Altar
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2020 The short text:
The One Earth Altar by Marianne Greve combines many characteristics: its form of the altar triptych and the cultural asset book symbolize cultural achievements, but the content, the earth, leads it back to its origin, nature. Begun in 2000 as a project as part of Expo Hannover, it is a work in progress – not only because gaps are still being filled in the series of subjects, but above all because it requires interaction: Because new formats will emerge in the context of the altar and it will radiate through people’s exchanges about and with it. As a social sculpture, it only grows through the cooperation of numerous people who send in earth, who visit it and who take care of the community work around it. It is the reason for their actions and thus has a direct impact on society.
At the same time, it is a digital work of art whose content is accessed via the database, which contains information about the earth books, and within which the placement of the earth books is controlled by an algorithm. The rhythm of the books thus creates an abstract composition that uses the natural properties of the earths, such as color and consistency. It is structured by the uniform grid of transparent book covers, which are illuminated from behind with light, thus emphasizing the structure. The light visually separates the earths from each other and symbolically charges the altar with its rays, which are refracted in the semicircular spine of the books as in a prism. Last but not least, the One Earth Altar – just as libraries are repositories of knowledge – is a repository for the memories associated with the earths, for the historical, political, social and religious memory of the world.
Further mentions
1990. Greve, Marianne, 1st Laves Architects Workshop on the subject of the World Exhibition in Hanover, (Application of the City of Hanover “Man-Nature-Technology” for the EXPO 2000 in Paris).
1994. Glässgen, Heinz, Art forays, “What the eye does not see…”, Portrait Marianne Greve, NDR television
1999. Brock, Bazon. The world at your feet. DuMont.
2000. Greve, Marianne et al. Eine-Welt-Kirche Eine-Erde-Altar, Markus-Kirchengemeinde Schneverdingen, Beisner Druck.
2001. Zika, Anna. ParTerre – Zur Kulturgeschichte des gestalteten Bodens, Dissertation, University of. Wuppertal.
2003. Pryzklenk, Andrea. Earth with stories. Christian Digest. Association of Catholic and Protestant Digests since 1947, published by Axel B. Trunkel. Distribution for Switzerland. Christina Verlag, Stein am Rhein.
2005. Ludwig, Matthias/Mawick, Reinhard. God’s new houses, Chrismon-Verlag.
2006. Zink, Markus/Grund, Michelle. See…! Contemporary art in Protestant churches.
2008. Toland, Alexandra / Wessolek, Gerd. Soil and Culture, Merging Horizons. Springer.
2011. Meyer-Rogge, Ursula. Metamorphoses – Women Artists in Hamburg. Dölling&Galitz Publishers.
2019. Voigt, Beatrice Editor in collaboration with the University of
Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna and the Bavarian State Natural History Collections
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On becoming. Development dynamics in nature and society. Perspectives
of a culture of values open to the future in a dialog between science, art and education….
Greve Marianne. Dialogue with the earth. Soil contact as a transcultural event. S- 102-107.
2020. Freudenthal, Dirk. Interview with Marianne Greve “For me there is no evil earth …”. Share, ELM Hermannsburg issue no. 4.
2021. Wulfes, Andres. Stories from the earth. Soltauer Schriften Volume 27, Binneboom.
2023. Breskott, Klaus-Martin. SEHEN LERNEN, Werke und Formen in der Welt der Kirche, Vol. 3. An art-historical-religious-educational publication, Kulturbüro des Rates der EKD Berlin.