Exhibition: "Fertility of Stone" with Ines Lechleitner

At LISBETH, Ines Lechleitner presents a series of black-and-white photographs taken in 2025 in the "Giardino dell'impossibile," a botanical garden created over the course of the life of its founder, Maria Gabriella Campo, in the tuff quarries of Favignana, Sicily. The traces of various mining techniques on the site, dating from the 17th century to the 1950s, speak to us in the form of graphic symbols carved into the stone. Since gardening began in this unlikely, sunken, cave-like landscape, a kind of impossible paradise has blossomed from the stone.

In her drawings, Ines Lechleitner maps inner and outer landscapes, processes, and sensory perceptions, leading us into the intertwining of influences that we can experience especially in extraordinary moments and places.

In the LISBETH gatehouse, Lechleitner's reflections on the garden are spatially expanded by a scent. By working with the sense of smell and creating unique scents that act as companions in moments of transition, Ines Lechleitner has created a fragrance for the "Giardino dell'impossibile" that invites visitors to transport themselves into inner landscapes.