später sein wird

When you step out of the Paderborn Central Station, you are greeted by the typical architecture of a West German city that was severely damaged during the Second World War and rebuilt in the middle of the 20th century: there is hardly any place to stop and have a moment of arrival on a busy street, the traffic sweeps people along and intuitively draws them
towards the city centre. The situation is dominated by mobility infrastructure: bicycle stands, bus stops, parking lots, taxi stand. Here, you are supposed to keep moving. And then, right in the middle of it all, there is a small apple tree, surrounded by a tree silhouette made of steel, directly opposite the former financial office.

Christian Hasucha’s will be later opposes the urban hustle and bustle against the slowness of a growing apple tree. Over the next few decades, the tree will grow into the shape of the ideal apple tree silhouette that Christian Hasucha remembered from his childhood. With the apple tree, Hasucha has created a living sculpture that is beyond the artist’s control
and at the same time offers passers-by the opportunity to observe the changes and to establish a relationship with the sculpture.

The combination of nature and sculpture also refers to the mutability of public space. The work responds to this in a double sense, because the ensemble of tree and stencil had to change location once already due to the renovation of the station and has thus been put into a new spatial context. Originally, the work was installed on the street side of the station and was moved to its current location in 2020 in consultation with the artist.