Five Seasons: The Gardens of Piet Oudolf

Weekdays: 3:30pm. Weekends: 12:30pm & 3:30pm
$26; $12 members (includes admission)

Join us at Calder Gardens for a screening of Five Seasons: The Gardens of Piet Oudolf, a documentary directed by Thomas Piper.

Please note that on January 29, we are hosting a two-part program featuring a screening of Five Seasons followed by a conversation between Piper and Taylor Zakarin, associate curator of High Line Art in New York. Click here to learn more and buy tickets.

“For me, garden design isn’t just about plants, it is about emotion, atmosphere, a sense of contemplation. You try to move people with what you do. You look at this, and it goes deeper than what you see. It reminds you of something in the genes—nature, or the longing for nature.” —Piet Oudolf

Experience a deep dive into the creative process of internationally acclaimed landscape designer Piet Oudolf, the visionary behind the gardens at Calder Gardens. Five Seasons: The Gardens of Piet Oudolf offers an immersive and meditative look at how Oudolf’s revolutionary naturalistic style redefines our conventional notions of public space and beauty itself.

Filmed across all four seasons, the documentary showcases Oudolf’s work, from his abstract sketches and aesthetic theories to the ecological implications of his living works of art, including the celebrated High Line in New York and the Lurie Garden in Chicago.

Discover why botanist Rick Darke notes in the film that Oudolf’s work “teaches us to see what we have been unable to see,” and explore the emotion and contemplation central to his design philosophy.

Runtime is 75 minutes; screening in multipurpose room.
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Pictures in Motion is a series that presents moving-image works, including experimental cinema, artist films, and documentaries. Each program is organized around themes that reflect Calder Gardens’ curatorial focus, showing how artists use motion, time, and sound to expand contemporary visual practice.

Programming at Calder Gardens is supported by the Calder Foundation, Michael Sternberg, Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz, and Donna Green.