Robert Klanten

Silke Krohn

Matthias Hübner

Alain Bieber

Pedro Alonzo

This book explores the current interrelationship between art, activism, and politics. It presents new visual concepts and commentaries that are being used to represent and communicate emotionally charged topics, thereby bringing them onto local political and social agendas in a way far more powerful than words alone. It looks at how art is not only reflecting and setting agendas, but also how it is influencing political reaction. Consequently, Art & Agenda is not only a perceptive documentation of current urban interventions, installations, performances, sculptures, and paintings by more than 100 young and established artists, but also points to future forms of political discourse.

Political Art and Activism

Art & Agenda

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Francesca Gavin

Lincoln Dexter

Thanks to art's ability to communicate and influence, it has always had a charged relationship with activism and politics. And, given the tumultuous times in which we live, with traditional democracies being challenged from all sides, the changing climate, global movements for social justice, and political upheaval causing millions to search for a better life abroad, this relationship has never been more important. The Art of Protest will explore the connection between art, politics, and activism today, revealing how, over the past decade, artists have been engaging with political and social issues of all kinds, through different artistic mediums.

The Art of Protest

Rafael Schacter

Lukas Feireiss

Jimmie Durham

Matthew Murphy

Jennifer Thatcher

Hrag Vartanian

On American artist Brad Downey's public works blending everyday life and art This book surveys the work of Berlin-based American artist Brad Downey (born 1980) in sculpture, architecture, performance, installation, film, drawing, collage and activism. In his often humorous interventions, Downey questions the structure of cities and obscures the boundaries between art and everyday life.

Process, Project, Object

Brad Downey. Slapstick Formalism

Alain Bieber

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