He Biophest Festival places biophilia (congenital love for nature) with artistic thinking and practices. The term biophilia was conceived by Erich Fromm in 1973 and developed by Wilson in his book Biophilia (1984)-as a way to imagine a fair and mutually interconnected life between people and non-human life, such as plants and in recent years has been an object of study and speculation within contemporary culture, of what this party will explain.
He Biophest Festival will be held from 4 to 6 April 2025 And it will take shape through concerts, workshops, conversations and facilities, at various locations of Matadero Madrid and the participation of scientists, botanists, thinkers, landscapes, designers and visual, musical and picturesque artists, will contain international relevance.
Biophest Festival: Love for nature
Matadero Madrid, Center for contemporary creation of the area of culture, tourism and sport, will First edition of the Biotest Festival with an extensive program of activities for all target groups. From 4 to 6 April, this cultural project will be organized via Matadero the exchange of ideas, knowledge and artistic experiments to delve into the concept of biophilia, that is, The emotional bond between nature and people.
For three days, Participants can participate in a large number of workshops, concerts, guided routesConversations, artistic facilities, exhibitions and workshops for children.
Recently, the idea that people who have a larger bond with nature and develop their love are developing their quality of life. Starting with this assumption, the festival for the first time in Spain Biopest plans to celebrate and deepen the various connections between humans and the world of botany.
Promotion of biophilia
Among the many workshops, Participants can learn to make cuttings or to keep a green space on a terrace in the big cityWith the aim of increasing the biodiversity of the planet. They will also have the opportunity to know how to identify and take care of indoor plants, which promotes the approach to the most daily plant species.
In the same way, a miniature ecosystem or ecosystem will be made from zero in another of the workshops, What will allow to talk about which plants and substrates are sufficient to keep it. In the Kakedama workshop (‘Moss Ball’) you can learn the technique needed to treat this plant composition of Japanese origin with the techniques of the Bonsai, Ikebana or Kusamon.
In the Silteca Madrid room conversations with experts will take place, including names such as the philosopher, anthropologist and gardener Santiago Beruete, convinced of the need for the need for Leave the conviction that we are the only intelligent organisms on the planet And go to a biocentric worldview.
From England, the psychiatrist, Jardinera and writer Sue Stuart-Smith go to the festival, whose book The Well Landscapeed Mind is announced as a powerful combination of neuroscience, literature, history and psychoanalysis, and of which It says that nature can radically transform health and self -confidence. On the other hand, the gardener, landscape and botanical researcher Eduardo Barba will offer the art of plants, in which he will tackle the benefits of populating cities with green areas.
The Italian gardener and writer Marco Martella, director of the Jardins magazine, and who has defended his dedication to nature in the essays, a perfect world and Fleurs will also be added to the conversations. Completely The La Talk panel with the artist, photographer and curator of exhibitions Legido Toya, who will be about the direct relationship between humans and its natural environment, increasing nature as an essential content of art.
Artistic exhibitions
The broad Shipping room UNA de Matadero Madrid will organize various artistic facilities As the vegetable experiment, the first generative digital art (re) series that evolves, has growing and stored carbon, made by the award -winning artist and designer Cyrus Clarke.
On the other hand, the Chrystalide installation of Casa Protea Explore transformation and regeneration cycles in nature. Mainly built with moss, this organic structure evokes a living and beating refuge, a space where the plant becomes a protector and catalyst for new lives.
Another attraction for the visitor will be the interactive installation monopholium of scenocosm (Grégory Lasserre & Anaïs with the Ancxt). A living tree responds to human touch with a sound, a voice. This “language” is It produces contact and the proximity of the spectators, thanks to their electrostatic energy. The tree “sings” when the audience touches or caresses it somewhat.
The terrarium of the ship organizes the exhibition of varieties of local lettuce, made by Ecosecha, a monster of the diversity offered by the orchards and that reaches the table. In the same room, the Seed Exchange Bank project will be presented, an initiative that wants to return to the decentralization of seed control, aimed at Interested in exchanging knowledge about environmentally friendly agriculture in Madrid.
Music for Botany
Every journey It will be concluded with a musical show with regard to the world of botany. For the inauguration, on Friday, April 4, Biofest He has planned a tribute for the Mort Garson Plantsia Cult -Album -made in 1976 to be specifically enjoyed by plants -with an updated version of the Donostiarra separation of New York Producer.
On Saturday, April 5, the Scottish producer and DJ Brian d’Uza (also known as Auntie Flo) will present the natural and organic evolution of the LP Mycorhizal fungi -It is originally the leadership for Hayes Mycelium Pavilion of the Glastonbury Festival 2023 -, directly and under the name Mushroom Music.
Like a Climax, on Sunday, April 6, the artist Jordi Sapena, member of the Red Room, presents the directly from his album Salve Monstera, A work that dialogues with human emotions through sound landscapes that oscillate between the electronic and organic.
Natural guided routes and views
Of the free activities that the earlier registration of the public can enjoy, Biofest He has organized a series of guided routes and visits. When The speaking is a Biobotany route by Madrid Río to consider the Manzanares a living loaded with memoryprotagonist of the ecological and social history of the city.
Praise A Punk Gardening is one of the routes presented by Madrid Río and ArganzuelaSo that you can know the dedication to gardens that are able to free yourself from the established, who do not follow the rules, with fewer resources, where you feel good and experience pleasure.
The participants in The route through the Arganzuela Crystal Palace La Nave de las PotatoesForgotten warehouse for urban biophile hiding place will know this green oasis with more than 9,000 species in the heart of the city, where iron and nature architecture merge.
Activities for children
He Biophest Festival also takes the youngest audience into accountFor which the workshops have designed the challenge of the forest and the nature of the objects, aimed at girls and boys of six years.
Biophest, Organized byiae and Matadero Madrid, it has the sponsorship of as pedras, the eagle and the Association for Spanish forest certification (PEFC Spain), and is compiled by the expert in urban botany Elena Páez and the specialist in cultural communication Eva F. Cortés.
It’s a festival contributes to the work on permaculture and critical ecology This has characterized, among other things, the intermediary program since its establishment. Registration for free activities and submissions of adult workshops are already available in Intermediae.es.