When Hilma af Klint Found the Soul in Plants

When Hilma af Klint Found the Soul in Plants

My first encounter with the art of Hilma af Klint was an accidental one. Five years before the 2018–19 Guggenheim Museum show that made her an art world sensation, in one of the weirdest museum pairings I can remember, an af Klint survey was concurrent with a Martin Kippenberger retrospective at the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin. Wandering from one show to the other felt like moving between two worlds, the known and unknown — literally, because af…