Blumen des Bösen is a multi-week exhibition and event series held at Zönoteka project space (Berlin) transforming the location into a playful yet critical meeting point for art, history, and collective making. Using the gallery's shop-window like architecture, the project appeared as a Christmas and souvenir shop at first glance, inviting passers-by to look closer and question what lies behind familiar surfaces.
The program explored the colonial histories embedded in plant motifs, ornamentation, and botany within European visual culture, tracing their migration through German colonialism, Art Nouveau, and Jugendstil, and reflecting on how these legacies continue to shape everyday aesthetics and cultural memory.
Over three weekends, the exhibition became a lively social space through hands-on workshops and public programs open to people of all ages and backgrounds. Participants experimented with screen printing, cyanotype, embossing, zine-making, sugar casting, and heat presses, with the resulting works becoming part of the exhibition itself.
Máté KOHOUT was part of the main organizing team and led screen-printing workshops for children, contributing to an open, inclusive environment centered on learning, creativity, and bringing people together.
