The artwork was created as part of the Green Line project, which brings works by international and Slovak artists addressing environmental issues — the climate crisis, biodiversity loss, and the relationship between humans and nature — into Trenčín’s public spaces. The project is curated by Oto Hudec.
The object installed on the banks of the Váh River, entitled Who Owns the Weather?, is a large, open steel structure resembling a meteorological antenna — almost like a device or instrument, but above all a sculptural work in the form of a question. The work by artists Anca Benera and Arnold Estefán invites visitors to step beneath it and encounter a simple yet enigmatic sentence: Who owns the weather? — formed in metal letters and appearing again as shadows on the ground beneath the object, cast by sunlight.
The question is deliberately left open. It is up to the viewer to reflect on it and find their own answer. Does it point to climate change — largely caused by human activity, yet with responsibility for it far from equally shared? Perhaps the work draws attention to fossil fuel corporations, wealthy states, and business and political lobbyists who disproportionately exacerbate the crisis while simultaneously avoiding accountability. Or should we take a critical look at the military industry and states that have already experimented with manipulating local climatic conditions for strategic purposes? Ultimately, the work may also point to new geoengineering technologies, increasingly proposed as a last resort against climate catastrophe.
And yet, the answer to this question need not lead to despair. People — if politically united — have real power to shape the environmental future. And in the long term, perhaps the planet itself is the rightful owner of its weather.
Green Line artworks
Oliver Ressler (AT): Out of the Underpass to Take Back the Sky – Hasičská underpass → https://www.trencin2026.eu/podujatie/otvorenie-intervencie-olivera-resslera-at/
Rigo 23 (US/PT): The River Is Sacred for Its Own Sake – mural, Low-Threshold Centre → https://www.trencin2026.eu/podujatie/mural-rigo-23/
Anca Benera & Arnold Estefán (RO/AT): Who Owns the Weather? – Váh River embankment → https://www.trencin2026.eu/podujatie/kto-vlastni-pocasie/
Tamás Kaszás (HU): Beehive – green space by the intersection of Palackého and Hasičská Streets
Martin Piaček (SK): Two Fig Trees – M. R. Štefánik Park
Thin Green Line exhibition – Župný dom, 11 September – 6 December 2026 → https://www.trencin2026.eu/podujatie/vernisaz-vystavy-tenka-zelena-linia/
Green Line Bike Ride – 13 September 2026 → https://www.trencin2026.eu/podujatie/cyklojazda-po-umeleckych-intervenciach/
