NON-FUNGIBLE-JUNGLE-TOKEN

Planting trees as breathing sculptures and enabling biodiverse projects

Numbered edition of 999 unique analog coins, wooden coin case with engraved individual data

The NON-FUNGIBLE-JUNGLE-TOKEN (NFJT) is a collaborative project with Bernard Vienat and association art-werk. The NFJT manifests itself in a numbered edition of 999 unique analog coins in a wooden coin holder with engraved individual data. It is meant to accompany and further enable tree planting as breathing sculptures and sculptors in an urban context, as well as the implementation of ecological and social art projects. A buyer of NFJT receives the right to fund the planting of a forthcoming tree.

Designed in a shape of a coin, NFJT is a reminiscence of the 50 Pfennig Deutsche Mark coin from 1949. Showing a woman putting a tree sapling in the ground, the coin honoured the “Kulturfrauen” who replanted forests in the Harz region and Niedersachen after they had been razed to pay off the debt owed to the British for World War II. However, instead of a woman planting a tree, the Non-Fungible-Jungle-Token shows the rover Perseverance, which landed on the Martian surface in 2020, tenderly cradling an oak sapling.

Karl, living sculpture, 2021, Weeping beech (Fagus sylvatica "Pendula"), NON-FUNGIBLE-JUNGLE-TOKEN 001 | Planted in Vienna’s Augarten on the occasion of the exhibition "Jungle Memory" at Kahán Art Space and in collaboration with the Vienna Biennale for Change
Ignaz, living sculpture, 2021, Sweetgum (Liquidambar styraciflua), NON-FUNGIBLE-JUNGLE-TOKEN 004 | Planted on the occasion of the exhibition "Jungle Memory" at Kahán Art Space, Budapest, Hungary
Living sculpture, 2022, European beech tree, NON-FUNGIBLE-JUNGLE-TOKEN 038 | Planted on the occasion of the exhibition "Landscapes of Memory" at OECD, Paris, France
Tree planting action in the frame of the exhibition berlin.(re)connecting.earth21 at Kleingarten Habsburger-Gaußstraße, Berlin, 2022, photo by Meret Fransen
Andreas Greiner planting a tree with local children and teachers in Bielefeld, Germany, 2022
An art workshop for school children was held along with the tree planting in Bielefeld, Germany, 2022

NON-FUNGIBLE-JUNGLE-TOKEN

Planting trees as breathing sculptures and enabling biodiverse projects

Numbered edition of 999 unique analog coins, wooden coin case with engraved individual data

The NON-FUNGIBLE-JUNGLE-TOKEN (NFJT) is a collaborative project with Bernard Vienat and association art-werk. The NFJT manifests itself in a numbered edition of 999 unique analog coins in a wooden coin holder with engraved individual data. It is meant to accompany and further enable tree planting as breathing sculptures and sculptors in an urban context, as well as the implementation of ecological and social art projects. A buyer of NFJT receives the right to fund the planting of a forthcoming tree.

Designed in a shape of a coin, NFJT is a reminiscence of the 50 Pfennig Deutsche Mark coin from 1949. Showing a woman putting a tree sapling in the ground, the coin honoured the “Kulturfrauen” who replanted forests in the Harz region and Niedersachen after they had been razed to pay off the debt owed to the British for World War II. However, instead of a woman planting a tree, the Non-Fungible-Jungle-Token shows the rover Perseverance, which landed on the Martian surface in 2020, tenderly cradling an oak sapling.

Karl, living sculpture, 2021, Weeping beech (Fagus sylvatica "Pendula"), NON-FUNGIBLE-JUNGLE-TOKEN 001 | Planted in Vienna’s Augarten on the occasion of the exhibition "Jungle Memory" at Kahán Art Space and in collaboration with the Vienna Biennale for Change
Ignaz, living sculpture, 2021, Sweetgum (Liquidambar styraciflua), NON-FUNGIBLE-JUNGLE-TOKEN 004 | Planted on the occasion of the exhibition "Jungle Memory" at Kahán Art Space, Budapest, Hungary
Living sculpture, 2022, European beech tree, NON-FUNGIBLE-JUNGLE-TOKEN 038 | Planted on the occasion of the exhibition "Landscapes of Memory" at OECD, Paris, France
Tree planting action in the frame of the exhibition berlin.(re)connecting.earth21 at Kleingarten Habsburger-Gaußstraße, Berlin, 2022, photo by Meret Fransen
Andreas Greiner planting a tree with local children and teachers in Bielefeld, Germany, 2022
An art workshop for school children was held along with the tree planting in Bielefeld, Germany, 2022