When the New York gallery-owner Betty Parsons was challenged by the famous male artists she represented to focus in future on marketing them exclusively and not to exhibit the less famous positions in her gallery anymore, she replied: “I like a bigger garden.” Whereupon Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman and Jackson Pollock terminated their association with her gallery.

The exhibition I like a bigger garden takes Betty Parsons’ smart and charming reply literally: we actually see flowers, trees, blossoms and leaves, that is, gardens, in the paintings by Charlotte Herzig (*1983), Ben Sledsens (*1991) and Josephine Troller (1908 –2004). Moreover, the exhibition aims to care for the bigger garden in a figurative sense too, placing the work of the deceased Lucerne artist Josephine Troller in context with two contemporary positions. This encounter with the younger generation shows just how much power, fantasy and remarkable daring her work encompasses.