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With the time you have left will you, like the German artist Joseph Beuys, who is featured in “Zodiac,” plant trees that thrive outdoors in open, public spaces, for all to see, or will you continue to show indoors, at museums that charge admission and are subject to political pressures?

The late, great German Conceptual artist Joseph Beuys used to say, “Everybody is an artist,” but I’d much rather see a big museum show of Beuys’ pungent art than a big show of “everybody’s.”

It is only Lowe’s most recent foray into social sculpture, an expansive concept developed in the 1970s by the German artist Joseph Beuys to describe a practice that embraces the communal and political functions of art in reshaping the world.

This challenge led Lowe to Beuys’s social sculpture, which, along with Biggers’s influence, prompted Project Row Houses and a series of other community-based works, from Tulsa to Chicago, and now to Athens.

In the show’s catalog, Gates cites the “shamanic conceptualism” of the German postwar artist Joseph Beuys as inspiration for his work.