Come compost with us!
This fall/winter, we will meet for 7+1 COMPOST DAYS with the following time structure that will not only enable us to compost in practice and theories, but will also give us time for awareness, togetherness and care:
2–3 pm
check-in: welcome, bring your compost to the heap, intro to the day, awareness practice
3–6 pm
compost program with invited guests, facilitated by compost collective*
6–7 pm (with open end)
The program continues and ends with a collective dinner, related to the day’s program
locations
compost garden in the courtyard of the University of Applied Arts (Oskar-Kokoschka-Platz 2, 1010 Vienna)
studio of Klasse für Alle at Heiligenkreuzerhof, Schönlaterngasse 5, 1010 Vienna
exception #4: Hügelgarten (Feldversuche) of Kleine Stadtfarm, Naufahrtweg 14a, 1220 Wien
COMPOST DAYS SEMESTER SCHEDULE
compost day #1
Friday, 10.10., 2–7 pm
COMPOSTING AS A VARIETY OF TECHNIQUES
with Kai Feldhammer & Anna Zett and Klasse für Performative Künste Leipzig & Cordula Fötsch (Gartenpolylog Wien)
compost day #0
Friday, 30.10., 2–6 pm
MAINTAINANCE, REPAIR, CARE
with compost collective & Sigrid Gerl
compost day #2
Friday, 7.11., 2–7 pm
PROCESSES OF RAGE
change of location!
with Frida Robles
compost day #3
Friday, 21.11., 2–7 pm
DIGESTING FEMINISM – SENSORY READING & FERMENTATION
with Monja Simon, Camille Belmin
compost day #4
Friday, 5.12., 2–7 pm
TERRA PRETA with Nikolaus Eckhard (Feldversuche, Kleine Stadtfarm)
compost day #5
Friday, 19.12., 2–7 pm
SOLSTICE, BELOW THE SURFACE
with Ivie Isibor & Sedjro Mensah
compost day #6
Friday, 9.1., 2–7 pm
CEREMONIAL FOOD OFFERINGS
curated by / with Salma Shaka (Umm Bahar) & companions
compost day #7
Friday, January 23, 2–7 pm
COMPOST FILMS
curated by / with Ipek Hamzaoğlu
scroll down for further event details
ABOUT
Even a wounded world is feeding us. Even a wounded world holds us, giving us moments of wonder and joy. We must return the gift. (Robin Wall Kimmerer in “Braiding Sweetgrass. Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants”)
In the fall, we return to the compost heap and its garden to follow Robin Wall Kimmerer’s call to continuously renew our connection with the (natural) world. Composting is joining ecological cycles – we practise to treat our organic matter carefully, to appreciate what is nourishing, and to recognize the interrelatedness of decay, transformation, and growth. We renew our focus on an everyday base. Composting is a bodily practice that relates us to the world.
Composting is maintenance – developing a sense for ongoingness that demands attention, presence, celebration and being in place. Composting, we notice what is there, what’s becoming, in a relation of reciprocity.
Maintaining compost is maintaining relationships: composting is learning-from and learning-with: humans, soils, gardens, the more-than human world..
Composting as a form of care taking is embedded in political, spiritual, bodily and environmental actions. To care for compost is to oppose the capitalist world order that is built on colonialism, imperialism, racism, oppression, ecocide and genocide.
Composting as learning-with and caring-for is getting in touch but also more: it is getting into action.
Composting is (ecological) resistance, regeneration and repair. (A.L.)
*compost collective is an open collective. Whoever wants to actively participate in compost days and compost care is invited to join! Members of the collective take responsibility for the organic compost garden at Oskar-Kokoscha-Platz throughout the semester. They also take over the roles of hosting and/or facilitating compost days and skills exchange sessions. If you are interested to join, come to compost days or contact us!
At Klasse für Alle, we compost since 2022. compost collective was founded in the frame of composting at Klimabiennale 2024 by then core members Vik Bayer, Camille Belmin, Yeonwoo Chang, Kai Feldhammer, Vickie Ferreri, Nola Haag, Ivie Isibor, Andrea Lumplecker and Michael Reindel. Together, they have not only developed strategies to integrate composting into everyday life but also practice artistic methods in relation to composting such as deep listening, writing, moving, reading, fermenting, braiding and many more.
This semester’s program – COMPOST DAYS – is curated and organised by Vik Bayer and Andrea Lumplecker. Current compost collective facilitators are Ivie Isibor, Raphaela Leitner, Oleksa Shevchenko, Ritger Traag.
EVENT DETAILS
compost day #0
MAINTAINANCE, REPAIR, CARE
Ersatztermin!
time 2 pm–6 pm (without collective dinner, but we will have some garden snacks)
location compost garden in the courtyard of the University of Applied Arts (Oskar-Kokoschka-Platz 2, 1010 Vienna)
with compost collective & Sigrid Gerl
practicalities Bring compost for the compost heap! Wear garden clothes & shoes; bring knives, garden scissors, garden gloves if you have
This is a practical work session. As always, when working with Sigrid, this means getting in touch with the compost and the garden, to see what they need after the summer and at the beginning of fall. We will observe, touch and feel what the garden needs (as well as what we need). We also want to give the compost fence stability: repair bamboo, add wood – carve, cut, heat up and bend. We nourish and we will be nourished, we organise and repair, while we carry moments and garden stories from the summer into the fall (and our new semester).
compost day #1
COMPOSTING AS A VARIETY OF TECHNIQUES
date Friday, October 10, 2025
time 2–7 pm
location compost garden in the courtyard of the University of Applied Arts (Oskar-Kokoschka-Platz 2, 1010 Vienna)
with Kai Feldhammer & Anna Zett and Klasse für Performative Künste Leipzig & Cordula Fötsch (Gartenpolylog)
practicalities Bring compost for the compost heap!
On our first official Compost Day this semester, we will explore composting using a variety of techniques. Kai Feldhammer will open the day with a guided movement session that will connect participants to compost in a physical and spatial way. Anna Zett invites us to a group analytical improvisation session at the compost heap. Together with the Performative Arts class at the HGB Leipzig, which she is temporarily teaching, she is visiting Vienna this week and is a guest at the Angewandte. Like any large group of people, the compost heap is a jumble of different life forms, bodies, and energies. What images arise between us when we gather around a compost heap instead of a campfire? Together with the students from Leipzig, Anna Zett opens up an associative space in which processes of connecting and separating take place, becoming conscious in the group, only to dive back into the darkness of the compost again and again.
Afterwards, we will have a close look at our compost, together with Cordula Fötsch from Gartenpolylog to see what it needs and take care of it: we will dig, turn and nourish the compost heap. Cordula will guide us through this work and will share her knowledge on composting with us.
compost day #2
PROCESSES OF RAGE
date Friday, November 7, 2025
time 2–6 pm
change of location!
meeting point compost garden in the courtyard of the University of Applied Arts (Oskar-Kokoschka-Platz 2, 1010 Vienna)
location Brigittenauer Bucht, 20 min. from U1 Donauinsel (we will provide coordinates via Instagram Friday afternoon)
with Frida Robles
UPDATE We will meet, as planned, at the compost heap in the yard of Oskar Kokoschka Platz (Bring your compost!🍁🌾) at 2 pm for a check-in exercise until 2:30 pm, that’s when we will together leave for Donauinsel, where, after our workshop, we can have a fire to prepare our meal, and burn some anger-related writings.
We will take the U1 to Donauinsel and then walk together to BRIGITTENAUER BUCHT (while listening to some poetry), where, close to the water, we will start the workshop at 3 pm.
Please dress very warm, and bring something to sit on, and your bottle with a warm drink. We will provide the fire to warm up and all ingredients for our shared meal: skewers with vegetables with a bit of chili, together with a shot of mezcal and sliced oranges … looking very much forward!
This workshop invites participants to explore the idea of rightful rage (digna rabia), a concept articulated by the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) in their fight against the oppressive and discriminatory structures of the Mexican state. On January 1, 1994, the Zapatistas rose in rebellion and issued the First Declaration of the Lacandona Jungle, calling for communal ways of living, freedom, and basic rights such as health and education.
The rightful rage is the claim for the anger, frustration and fury that is constructive and that searches to dismantle centuries of colonial and neo-colonial violence against Indigenous peoples in the Americas. It also extends to resisting all forms of authoritarianism, systemic inequality, and cultural erasure. During this workshop, we will read some of the writings of the EZLN together and take part in simple practices that engage with embodied anger and written expressions of fury. In a time marked by silence, censorship, and repression, many of us carry anger in our bodies and hearts. This will be a small space to share that feeling and reflect on it.
For the shared meal, we will make a fire to cook skewers with vegetables with a bit of chili; together with a shot of mezcal and sliced oranges. We will burn some texts of the workshop in the open fire.
compost day #3
DIGESTING FEMINISM – SENSORY READING & FERMENTATION
date Friday, November 21, 2025
time 2–7 pm
location compost garden + studio of Klasse für Alle at Heiligenkreuzerhof, Schönlaterngasse 5, 1010
with Monja Simon, Camille Belmin
How do we nourish ourselves?
Have you ever thought about the life of your digestion?
How can we digest feminism collectively?
Digesting Feminism is a collective practice of listening, tasting, and composting, where feminist theories ferment not in books, but in bodies. Our guts, like our minds, are shaped by what we consume and how we process it. Drawing from Monja Simon’s publication Sauerkraut and her lived fermentation practice, participants are invited to taste home-fermented foods, share stories, and explore what it means to digest feminism physically, emotionally, and intellectually. This invitation to slow down, sense inward, taste and reflect makes space for collective transformation and porous knowledge-making. Inspired by Elizabeth A. Wilson’s Gut Feminism we begin from the belly — as archive, filter, and compass. We will consider digestion as a method: to hold what resists, to compost what sits heavy, to sit with what cannot be rushed. Digesting Feminism is a tender practice for anyone drawn to food, feminism, fermentation, composting and feeling.
compost day #4
TERRA PRETA
date Friday, December 5, 2025
time 2–7 pm
location Kleine Stadtfarm, Naufahrtweg 14a, 1220 Wien
with Nikolaus Eckhard
We meet at Kleine Stadfarm and will transform wood into biochar through fire to further enrich it with components like compost to create Terra Preta. The practical process of producing Terra Preta will be accompanied by learning about the indigenous legacy of the fertile black earth and its use for gardening and agriculture. Terra Preta is a multilayered mixture that contains precious nutrients for our soils.
compost day #5
SOLSTICE, BELOW THE SURFACE
date Friday, December 19, 2025
time 2–7 pm
location compost garden + studio of Klasse für Alle at Heiligenkreuzerhof, Schönlaterngasse 5, 1010
with Ivie Isibor & Sedjro Mensah
compost day #6
CEREMONIAL FOOD OFFERINGS
date Friday, January 9, 2026
time 2–7 pm
location compost garden + studio of Klasse für Alle at Heiligenkreuzerhof, Schönlaterngasse 5, 1010 Vienna
curated by / with Salma Shaka (Umm Bahar) & companions
compost day #7
COMPOST FILMS
date Friday, January 23, 2026
time 2–7 pm
location compost garden + studio of Klasse für Alle at Heiligenkreuzerhof, Schönlaterngasse 5, 1010
curated by / with Ipek Hamzaoğlu
ARCHIVE
COMPOST CARE #17 & Angewandte Festival
MAPPING COMPOST
Friday June 27, 2025, 4–6 pm
with Sigrid Gerl, meandr
location compost heap/garden, yard of of Angewandte, OKP
COMPOST CARE #16
MOVEMENT SESSION
SENSING WITH SOIL
Friday June 13, 2025, 2–6 pm
hosted by Kai Feldhammer
location compost heap/garden, yard of of Angewandte, OKP
An invitation to explore the imaginative possibilities and potentials of our senses through movement and writing. Together we try out different ways of how physical interaction with a place, another being or material can become the basis of a language that is shaped by many and that is as porous and messy as our bodies are.
What stories exist in or emerge out of the these bodily encounters and which ways are there to tell them to each other?
„and on the skin, the salt of centuries. and in the spit, the salt of centuries. and in the blood, the salt of centuries, the tears. we require a story not measured in years. begin“ – Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Dub: Finding Ceremony (2020)
COMPOST CARE #15
EXCURSION TO KOMPOSTWERK OF MA48 – LOBAU
Friday June 6, 2025, 3-4 pm
hosted by Andrea Lumplecker
meeting point with bikes 14 Uhr compost heap OKP
THE CARRIER BAG THEORY OF ANTI FICTION 3: NETTLES
Part 2: COLLECTIVE WEAVING AND READING AFTERNOON
Friday 30. May , 15–18h
hosted by Anna
location: by good weather at the compost heap at OKP, otherwise Heiligenkreuzerhof
registration: DM to @anna.tanzt or mail s12230244@student.uni-ak.ac.at
TRANS*MUTATION LAB # 2 DRYING
AN EXPLORATION IN COLLECTIVE MAKING, GROWING AND CORRESPONDING
June 7th, 1 – 4pm
(to get the complete experience, we highly recommend to attend all 3 sessions if possible!)
hosted by Momo
location shared upon registration
registration at hontebeyrie.e@gmail.com
Together, we will:
✷ Work with kombucha SCOBYs to create bioleather — a first encounter…
✷ Write letters to each other — nurturing a network of soft correspondence
✷ Brew, mark, dry, and harvest the living material — the words and symbols we shape together
The kombucha leather we make will become part of their final presentation, shown during Die Angewandte Festival.
You’ll also receive a piece of SCOBY and a recipe to begin your own culture at home!
Workshop dates & themes
✷ 03.05 — Brewing
✷ 07.06 — Drying
✷ tbc — Harvesting
Momo E. Hontebeyrie is a student at Cross Disciplinary Strategies and participant of Klasse für Alle. These workshops are part of their master thesis on trans*mutations.
TRANS*MUTATION LAB #1 BREWING
AN EXPLORATION IN COLLECTIVE MAKING, GROWING AND CORRESPONDING
Saturday May 3rd
hosted by Momo
location shared upon registration
registration at hontebeyrie.e@gmail.com
We began by brewing kombucha, getting to know each other, the space, and the bodies that move through it—and are moved by it. Letting time and narratives unfold, ferment, and correspond. A collaboration of many agents, hosted by Momo.
THE CARRIER BAG THEORY OF ANTI FICTION 3: NETTLES
Part 1: NETTLE GATHERING EXCURSION
Friday 23. May, meeting point 15h
hosted by Anna
location: Hill Garden at Kleine Stadtfarm
registration: DM to @anna.tanzt
Together we harvested nettles and learned how to gain fibers from them that we used for making cordage and read together.
You can also take home the leaves of the nettles for tea or for cooking 🙂
This was a two part workshop, in the first part we harvestes the nettles and prepared them, in the second part (May 30th) we made the cordage.
Anna is a student at Cross Disciplinary Strategies and participant of Klasse für Alle. This workshop is part of their master thesis “Weaving, braiding, twining a future that does not exist”.
COMPOST CARE #14
CARING FOR THE COMPOST GARDEN
Friday May 9, 2025, 2–5 pm
guest workshop Sigrid Gerl
location compost garden in the main building of Angewandte, Oskar-Kokoschka-Platz 2, A-1010 Vienna
THE CARRIER BAG THEORY OF ANTI FICTION
COLLECTIVE WEAVING & READING AFTERNOON
Friday May 2nd, 3–6pm
hosted by Anna
location Studio of Klasse für Alle at Heiligenkreuzerhof
registration through insta DM to @anna.tanzt
Together we will braid bands from dandelions and read some bits from „Braiding Sweetgrass“ by Robin Wall Kimmerer.
Instructions and text are provided. They will also bring some dandelions for braiding, but as it is with (foraged) materials, they are not endless.
Of course, you can also pick some dandelions yourself these days!
They have discovered the bordered area around some trees in the city of Vienna are home to the longest dandelions. So preferably, collect the rather long ones. Also, give them a few days to dry (or speed it up by drying them in the sun or halving them lengthwise)
This is the second workshop in a series of 3 on the topic of weaving! In the last one, we will work with nettles. You are invited to join all three workshops, but you can also take part in each workshop separately.
Anna is a student at Cross Disciplinary Strategies and participant of Klasse für Alle. This workshop is part of their master thesis “the carrier bag theory of anti fiction”.
THE CARRIER BAG THEORY OF ANTI FICTION
COLLECTIVE WEAVING & READING AFTERNOON
Friday April 11, 3–6pm
hosted by Anna
location Studio of Klasse für Alle at Heiligenkreuzerhof
registration at insta DM to @anna.tanzt
Together we will weave small baskets from rush („Binse“ in German) and read some of „The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction“ by Ursula K. Le Guin.
Instruction, rush and text will be provided.
This is the first workshop in a series of 3 on the topic of weaving! In the future ones, we will also work with nettles and dandelions. You are invited to join all three workshops, but you can also take part in each workshop separately.
Anna is a student at Cross Disciplinary Strategies and participant of Klasse für Alle. This workshop is part of their master thesis “the carrier bag theory of anti fiction”.
COMPOST CARE #12
ORGANISE COLLECTIVE COMPOSTING & COMPOST GARDENING
Friday March 28, 2025, 2–3:30 pm
hosted by Andrea Lumplecker
location compost heap, garden in the Main building of Angewandte, Oskar-Kokoschka-Platz 2, A-1010 Vienna
We compost & garden collectively, together with other humans and lots of more than human beings who need dedicated care. Compost needs (different & many) ingredients to grow, plants need water regularly …
At the core of this meeting are the questions:
How to organize that growth & care collectively?
How to commit to a long term project? What do I want to learn, what do I want to give? Where is my responsibility?
We will bring our composts to the heap, start with check in & a sensing practice, look out for and water plants, and discuss “collective action”.
COMPOST CARE #11
REVIVING (WITH) THE COMPOST GARDEN
Friday March 21, 2025, 1– 5pm
hosted by Andrea Lumplecker
with guest Sigrid Gerl, Kleine Stadtfarm
location compost heap, garden in the Main building of Angewandte, Oskar-Kokoschka-Platz 2, A-1010 Vienna
We planted nettles
-and raspberry plants
-make a Hügelbeet
-replant another fruit tree (look for a good spot for it)
-make one compost bed into a mint bed
-seed salad, raddish, rucola as “Vorkultur”
-take care of the compost
-…
COMPOST CARE #10
GETTING IN TOUCH: PROPOSITIONS FOR THE GARDEN
Friday March 7, 2025, 3–5 pm
hosted by Andrea Lumplecker
location compost heap, garden in the Main building of Angewandte, Oskar-Kokoschka-Platz 2, A-1010 Vienna
On March 7. we met outside in the compost garden for the first time this spring/summer semester, to slowly GET IN TOUCH. We walked around the garden to see how the trees we’ve replanted, the mosses, nettles and other plants we’ve taken care of last year, were doing.
We did some exercises for getting to know and getting in touch with our compost garden in practical and sensual ways, to not only see, but also sense those more than human beings in many different ways – listening, touching, smelling, tasting, … We composted dry plants to make space and light for little, growing plants. We even already seeded some spinach, rucola and salad.
We are very much looking forward to working with and in this garden in a practice of compost and soil care, this year.
COMPOST CARE #9
Freitag 21. Februar 2025, 15–17 Uhr
Reading Compost: Elvira Espejo Ayca: YANAK UYWAÑA, The Mutual Nurturing of the Arts & Garden planning
hosted by compost collective & Andrea Lumplecker
Location compost heap, Yard in the Main building of Angewandte, Oskar-Kokoschka-Platz 2, A-1010 Vienna
COMPOST CARE #8
Freitag 17. Jänner 2025, 15–17 Uhr
Mapping the Compost
hosted by compost collective & meandr
Ort compost heap, Hauptgebäude der Angewandten, Oskar-Kokoschka-Platz 2, A-1010 Wien
How does compost transform through time? What holds it together and what connections are there that benefit the metabolism of the compost heap? Questions meandr raises and tries to answer through a collective dissection.
meandr
A Vienna based collective whose members all have diverse backgrounds ranging from art, architecture, ecology, geography to education. They participated in the “Free Radicals” program at Floating University in Berlin where they executed their project “Assembly of the Unmapped” through which they have refined and strengthened their methodology relating to mapping.
COMPOST CARE #7
Friday, January 10, 2025, 15-17 Uhr
Report from the Workshop „Composting as Transforming, Speculating, and Writing“ at the Living Library of @biodesignlab_hfgk
hosted by Vik Bayer & Michael Reindel (compost collective)
With insights into the 2-day workshop and the practice of the Bio Design Lab in Karlsruhe with a special focus on their project of the Living Library
Location Studio at Heiligenkreuzerhof
COMPOST CARE #6
Friday 20.12.24, 3–5 pm
end of the year compost care + burning herbs
hosted by Ivie Isibor (compost collective)
meeting point Compost Heap at Oskar-Kokoschka-Platz, Courtyard of Die Angewandte Main Building
COMPOST CARE #5
Friday 29.11.2024, 3 pm
compost visit at Kleine Stadtfarm
invited by Sigrid Gerl
meeting point Kleine Stadt Farm
Naufahrtweg 14a
1220 Wien
public transport: U2 to Donaustadtbrücke, 93A to Rallenweg
COMPOST CARE #4
Friday 22.11.2024, 3–5 pm
Spinning Nettles
hosted by Vickie Ferreri (compost collective) & Pi Schuh #4
Friday 22.11.2024, 3–5 pm
SPINNING NETTLES
hosted by Vickie Ferreri (compost collective) & Pi Schuh
Nettle plants grow all around our compost heap – we love their resilience as well as their beauty. In this workshop, Vickie and Pi will show us how to cut up the dried fibers and spin them into strong twine.
COMPOST CARE #3
Friday 15.11.2024, 3–5 pm
Braiding Bamboo, compost care
hosted by compost collective
COMPOST CARE #2
Friday 25.10.2024, 3-5 pm
Soil, Onggi, Secret Cross: Kimchi Workshop with Political Storytelling
hosted by Yeonwoo Chang (compost collective)
COMPOST CARE #1
Friday 18. Oktober 2024, 3–5 pm
Structuring and re-initiating the compost heap
compost collective invited Sigrid Gerl, Kleine Stadtfarm
