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Edible Estate garden headquarters at SALT Beyoglu, Istanbul

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Edible Estate #4: London

FRITZ HAEG‘s work has included edible gardens, public dances, educational environments, animal architecture, domestic gatherings, urban parades, temporary encampments, documentary videos, publications, exhibitions, websites, and occasionally buildings for people. Recent projects include Edible Estates – an international series of public domestic edible gardens; Animal Estates – a housing initiative for native wildlife in cities around the world which debuted at the 2008 Whitney Biennial; Sundown Schoolhouse – an itinerant educational program, which evolved out of the Sundown Salon gatherings at his geodesic home base in the hills of Los Angeles; plus the designs, encampments, and scores of Fritz Haeg Studio.

Sundown home and gardens, Los Angeles

Haeg studied architecture in Italy at the Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia and Carnegie Mellon University, where he received his B. Arch. He is a Rome Prize fellow – in residence at the American Academy in Rome from 2010-2011, a MacDowell Colony Fellow (2007, 2009 and 2010), Montalvo Arts Center fellow (2012), and nominated for National Design Awards in 2009 and 2010. He has variously taught in architecture, design, and fine art programs at Princeton University (2012), California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), Art Center College of Design, Parsons School of Design, the University of Southern California, and Wayne State University in Detroit as the Elaine L. Jacob Chair in Visual Art visiting professor for Fall 2012.

Edible Estates at Tate Modern's Turbine Hall

Haeg has produced and exhibited projects at Tate Modern; the Hayward Gallery, London; the Liverpool Biennial; Blood Mountain Foundation, Budapest; the Whitney Museum of American Art; The Guggenheim Museum; SALT Beyoğlu, Istanbul; Stroom, Den Haag; Arup Phase 2, London; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Casco Office of Art, Design and Theory, Utrecht; Mass MoCA; the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; the Wattis Institute, San Francisco; the Netherlands Architecture Institute; The Indianapolis Museum of Art; and the MAK Center, Los Angeles; The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum; and the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at MIT among other institutions. His work has been published internationally, including profiles and features in The New York Times, Financial Times, Frieze, Artforum, The Independent, Dwell, Men’s Vogue, BBC, NPR, ABC World News Tonight, CBS Evening News, and The Martha Stewart Show.


Bernardi Residence, Silverlake

Fritz Haeg Studio

Fritz Haeg Studio was first established in New York City in 1995, and then relocated to Los Angeles in 1999, producing everything from designs for homes to a choreographed score for a parade. Some recent projects have included the Bernardi Residence in the Silver Lake hills of Los Angeles featured in the New York Times; the gallery design for peres projects in Los Angeles’ Chinatown; the score for the East Meets West Interchange Overpass Parade (2008), commissioned by the Indianapolis Museum of Art; a ground floor installation Dome Colony X in the San Gabriels (2009) at X Initiative in Manhattan; Something for Everyone (2010), projects throughout the grounds of the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum; and Composted Constructions (2011), a series of fabrications of recycled materials in Den Haag commissioned by Stroom.


Sundown Salon #29

Sundown Salon & Sundown Schoolhouse

Sundown Salon gatherings occurred on periodic Sunday afternoons from 2001-2006 in the geodesic dome on Sundown Drive, galvanizing an extended community of friends, collaborators and peers from Los Angeles and beyond through events, happenings, gatherings, meetings, pageantry, performances, shows, stunts and spectacles. In 2006 it transformed into Sundown Schoolhouse, a self-organized educational environment originally based in the geodesic dome. Now that Haeg is often on the road around the U.S. and abroad for projects, exhibitions and talks, it continues as an itinerant school, and at times a companion to his various initiatives. In 2009 “Salon Colada: Miami” is presented by MOCA Miami and “The Sundown Salon Unfolding Archive” (Evil Twin Publications) is released, documenting the series of events with photos and stories contributed by hundreds of the artists who participated . The 380 page accordion folding book unfurls to become a 140 foot long instant exhibition. In fall 2009 Sundown Schoolhouse: Practicing Moving transformed The Center for the Arts Eagle Rock into an open practice hall for dance, exercise and movement, and in 2012 Sundown Schoolhouse of Queer Home Economics is part of the pre-Olympics school at the Hayward Gallery in London.


Edible Estates book

Edible Estates

Edible Estates was initiated on Independence Day 2005 with the planting of the first in the series of gardens in Salina, Kansas, the geographic center of the United States. Domestic front lawns are replaced with edible landscapes which are then documented in photos, videos, stories, printed materials, and exhibitions. Other regional prototype gardens have since been planted in Lakewood, CA in 2006; Maplewood, NJ and London in 2007; Austin, Baltimore, and Descanso Gardens, Los Angeles in 2008; Manhattan in 2009; Ridgefield, CT and Rome in 2010; Istanbul in 2011; Budapest, Hungary in 2012; and Minneapolis in 2013. The expanded second edition of the book, “Edible Estates: Attack on the Front Lawn” (Metropolis Books, 2010) documents the first eight gardens in the series with stories from the garden owners, and framed by essays from renowned garden writers.


Animal Estates, 2008 Whitney Biennial

Animal Estates

Animal Estates proposes the strategic reintroduction of native animals into our cities with an ongoing series of regional events, publications, exhibitions, and estate designs. The project debuted in New York City at the 2008 Whitney Biennial with commissioned performances and installations in front of the museum, including a 10 foot diameter eagle’s nest perched over the entry canopy. It has since been followed by six other editions in 2008, commissioned by museums and art institutions in the U.S. and abroad including Center for Advanced Visual Studies at MIT, Cambridge; SFMOMA, San Francisco; Casco, Utrecht; Cooley Gallery at Reed College, Portland; and most recently Animal Estates London HQ: Urban Wildlife Client Services at Arup Phase 2 in 2011 and The Port of Rotterdam in 2012.


Animal Estate snag tower, San Francisco's Presidio

Selected Profiles & Features

New York Times Topics Page / T Magazine / NYT – Style / NYT – Bernardi Residence / NYT – Edible Estates / Financial Times / Los Angeles Times profile / NPR – Animal Estates / NPR – Edible Estates / The Independent / Frieze – essay, 2009 / Frieze essay, 2010 / Frieze – profile / Frieze – Edible Estates / BBC Radio / Dwell video / Dwell Magazine / Men’s Vogue (pdf) / KCET / Creative Time / Archinect / Treehugger / ABC World News Tonight / index magazine / complete press list


Sundown Schoolhouse: Practicing Moving day #16

Past Interns, Staff & Collaborators

Joanne Bristol, Animal Estates London HQ director, 2011-12 / Jena Lee, studio assistant, 2009 / Claire Zitzow,  studio assistant, 2009 / Colin Blodorn, studio assistant, 2008-09 / Stephanie Kern, studio assistant, Spring 2008 / Erica Browne, New York Animal Estates assistant, 2007-08 / Kim Anderson, studio assistant, 2007 / Matt Au, studio assistant, 2007 / Louis van Leer, studio, 2006-07 / Katie Bachler, Gardenlab assistant, 2005-07 / Pablo Cavero, studio intern, 2006 / Aubrey White, Gardenlab team, 2005-06 / Fiona Ryan, Sundown Salon assistant, 2005-06 / Erin Marshell, Gardenlab and studio assistant, 2005 / Sarah Skaggs, Sundown Salon assistant, 2005 / Juanita Meneses, studio assistant, Summer 2005 / Krystal Chang, studio assistant, 2004-06 / Jessica Dobkin, studio assistant, 2004 / Natascha Snellman, Sundown Salon assistant, 2004 / Marte Eknaes, studio assistant, Winter 2004-05 / Gabie Strong, studio intern, Summer 2004 / Eric Lindeman, studio intern, Summer 04 / Brian Howe, studio intern, Summer 2004 / Scott Franklin, studio intern, Summer 2004 / Sven Neumann, Bernardi Residence consultant, Summer 2004 / Emily Eyerman, studio intern, Summer 2003 / Jonathan Kleinhample, studio intern, Summer 2003

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Dancing Boardwalk, Aldrich Museum

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5 responses to “INFO & BIO”
  1. Josh Davis says:
    July 10, 2011 at 21:43

    Fritz have you heard about the Michigan couple who built a garden in their front yard and are now having to go to court because the city wants them to destroy it?

    http://www.rawstory.com/rawreplay/2011/07/michigan-woman-faces-jail-time-for-planting-vegetable-garden/

    http://www.viciousbabushka.com/2011/07/michigan-woman-arrested-for-vegetable-garden-and-no-pot-plants.html

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  2. Amanda Bell says:
    September 12, 2011 at 14:06

    Hi Fritz! I met you a year and a half ago at a lecture you held at Auburn University. I graduated in 2010 in architecture at Southern Polytechnic State University and am now working for a firm in Augusta, GA. Augusta has a community by the name of HARRISBURG. It is in crucial need of revitalizing. A few years ago, Augusta received one of their first community gardens located in Harrisburg and this Thursday there will be a design Charrette with the Mayor, Commissioner, local Augustans, and people from the Atlanta Regional Commission to help begin the revitalization process. I truly feel that your work with edible estates would be very successful in this neighborhood. I am aware that we are a small town located in Georgia, but with your help, I believe it will make a difference. I am not sure how the process works, but Augusta would be honored for you to come and plant your seed! Thank you for your time and I look forward to hearing from you.

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  3. “Designing the Wild and Cultivating the City” a lecture by Fritz Haeg | APS Museum says:
    September 18, 2011 at 08:50

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  4. Massimiliano Maroncelli says:
    December 9, 2011 at 05:10

    Hi Fritz! I’m Massimiliano Maroncelli, I work for Circolo di Cultura Omosessuale Mario Mieli in Rome, Europride 2011 organizer. We saw your pics of Circo Massimo http://www.fritzhaeg.com/wikidiary/2011/06/11/on-june-11th-2011-lady-gaga-at-europride/2011-06-11-p1220392/ and we like so much. We would ask you if we can use your pic (over 150 dpi if it’s possible) for a poster to sponsor an initiative about 40 years old of Glbt italian Moviment. If you are agree or for any question please contact me

    Thank you for your attention

    Massimiliano

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  5. Tom Oder says:
    May 21, 2012 at 09:08

    I am writing a story on front yard vegetable gardens for Mother Nature Network. How would you describe the difference between a front yard vegetable garden and an edible landscape?

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