The Garden Museum opens Lie Down in Green Pastures today, the first UK museum exhibition by German artist Sabine Moritz. The show runs from 8 October to 20 December at the museum's medieval church on Lambeth Palace Road, and most of the works on display have never been shown publicly before. Memory is the exhibition's through-line. Moritz spent her childhood in East Germany and moved west as a teenager; her paintings keep returning to Neulobeda, the prefabricated satellite town where her family settled after her father's death. In imagined landscapes, vegetation presses in on the concrete blocks of that childhood, while richly textured canvases work through family, home and displacement. A large abstract painting made for the occasion anchors the hang. Flowers are the show's other constant. Early drawings of blossoms hang near floral still lifes that continue a long-running strand of her practice — Moritz keeps potted plants and fresh-cut flowers in her Cologne studio as everyday working material. Some works were made on the grounds of the plant research institute where her father once worked, collapsing decades of looking at the natural world into a single room. Housed in a deconsecrated church on the south bank of the Thames, the Garden Museum has built its programme around the meeting point of art and horticulture, an apt setting for an artist whose three-decade career has kept one eye on the outdoors. The exhibition spans that full arc, from early-1990s paintings to editioned works produced for the show. The exhibition was announced jointly by the Garden Museum and Pilar Corrias, the artist's London gallery.