Kendra Haste: Big Bad Wolf

Kendra Haste: Big Bad Wolf Ornamental Cast Iron Museum, Büdelsdorf, Germany 31 May – 3 November 2025

BIG BAD WOLF brings together eleven striking new sculptures by UK sculptor Kendra Haste, installed throughout the museum as a bold, site-specific intervention. The exhibition explores sustainability and conservation themes and the controversial topic of rewilding, all set against the historical backdrop of cast iron’s role in shaping the natural world into decorative form. The featured animals - wolves, a stag, a hind, a white-tailed eagle, lynx, and wild boars - are all indigenous to Northern Germany. While several of these species are endangered, others are undergoing a resurgence, imbuing the exhibition with a compelling sense of regional significance and ecological urgency. The show is about more than animals. It is about our relationship with nature: how we’ve reshaped it, lost touch with it, and how we might begin to restore it. Each sculpture is a quiet invitation to look closer, to sense the fragility around us, and to imagine a wilder, more balanced future. Kendra’s work holds a unique tension between power and vulnerability, motion and stillness. These creatures don’t just inhabit the museum - they animate it. It is a conversation between nature and industry, between the past and what comes next.