Nature Will Invade a Stadium in Klaus Littmann’s Next Intervention

Written by Marta S. Galindez
Published: October 4, 2026

Inspired by a famous drawing by Max Peintner, The Unending Attraction of Nature, the artist Klaus Littmann will recreate the dreamlike setting of the image in the Worthersee Stadium (Klagenfurt, Austria).

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The Unending Attraction of Nature (1970-71). Drawing by Max Peintner at forforest.net

What an artist creates and imagines at a given moment, another artist may bring to reality over time. The idea is there; but the final result is only generated when means and intentions come together. In the early 1970s, the Austrian artist and architect Max Peinter (born in 1937) made a clearly dystopian and surrealist drawing, in which a forest grew in the middle of the turf of a large football stadium. The image, titled The Unending Attraction of Nature (La Atraccion Interminable de la Naturaleza), became over the years a true icon of art. The Swedish artist Klaus Littmann discovered the design more than 30 years ago: in 2019 he has finally managed to fulfill his wish to bring it to reality. In fact, Littmann’s artistic career seems to have directed him toward this project for years; he is an artist recognized for his interventions in public spaces, who largely uses the presence of nature in his works. As is noted on forforest.net, the project’s website, “through this monumental installation, Littmann seeks to change our perception of nature and to question its future”.

Presentation of the project For Forest – The Unending Attraction of Nature

The installation will be located in the Worthersee Stadium, situated in the town of Klagenfurt, Austria. While the project and the work have been conceived by Littmann Kulturprojekte, the final execution will be supervised by Enea Landscape Architecture, which will plant a total of 300 trees (some of them weighing more than six tons) on the stadium turf. The trees will be transplanted and cared for in great detail and will remain there during September and October 2019. Visitors will be able to admire the change of color of the leaves, the settling of animal life and the development of the forest in a clearly groundbreaking environment. Visitors will be able to come to the stadium from 10 in the morning to 10 at night and admire the irruption of the forest into the football field, under natural or artificial light. The installation will close its doors on 27 October 2019; then the trees will be transplanted again to a site near the stadium, remaining from then on as a “living sculpture”. Nearby, a pavilion will be erected where the project will be explained and all the preliminary works will be exhibited.

Nature Will Invade a Stadium in Klaus Littmann’s Next Intervention

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