Yoko Ono: Wish Tree Garden

Yoko Ono: Wish Tree Garden
Deichmanske Bjørvika / outside entrance
Open 24/7
Free entry

Yoko Ono: Wish Tree Garden (1996)

Legendary Japanese-American artist and musician Yoko Ono will plant a Wish Tree Garden outside the new Deichman Bjørvika main library on Oslo’s waterfront.

Ono’s Wish Tree Garden is an interactive artwork that she began in 1996 and has been included in many of her exhibitions in museums around the world. Visitors are invited to write their personal wishes for peace and tie them to a tree branch.

Ono was inspired by her own Japanese childhood memories of writing a wish and fixing it to a tree in a Buddhist temple courtyard. ‘They were always filled with people’s wish knots’ she says, ‘which looked like white flowers.’

Come to the new Deichman Bjørvika and add your own wishes. They will be added to the million she has already collected and stored in her Imagine Peace Tower in Reykjavik, Iceland.   

The installastion is open 24/7 from September 11th until September 19th. Pen and paper is available at the installation.  

Supported by Sparebankstiftelsen DNB.
(Photo: David Heald. Yoko Ono Wish Tree Guggenheim Museum 2017)