WRP Foundation announces Bordermeetings: Between the Lines, a solo exhibition by Swiss architect, urbanist, artist, and musician Dr. Anna Grichting Solder, whose lifelong work explores borders as spaces of memory, ecology, and imaginative transformation.
Drawing from personal origins across frontier regions and decades of research in Berlin, Belfast, Beirut, Nicosia, Cyprus, Korea, Qatar, and the Balkans, Grichting approaches borders not as hard lines but as liminal zones where social, cultural, and ecological forces intersect. The exhibition brings together architectural drawings, models, palimpsest chess sets, videos, sound compositions, publications, and archival material spanning 1989–2025.
Grichting’s practice focuses on borderlands as ecological corridors, potential sites for healing and regeneration. Her early work on the Berlin Wall and her doctoral research on the Cyprus Green Line investigate how no-man’s lands can evolve into shared ecological and cultural landscapes. She extends this vision to other divided territories—including the Korean Demilitarized Zone—proposing transboundary environmental peace parks and participatory design approaches involving scientists, artists, geographers, and local communities.
The exhibition also highlights her musical and sound based work, including the CD Borders Meeting and Mouthpiece Cyprus, a 24 speaker spatial composition inspired by the island’s divided buffer zone. Her interdisciplinary ensembles—Borders & Bridges, Desert Bridges, and others—use music as a form of cultural dialogue across geopolitical divides.