KUNST SCHAFFT DEMOKRATIE

Thuringia-wide poster campaign and an exhibition against the extreme right

The project ‘Kunst schafft Demokratie’ was launched by the MeetFrida Foundation in co-operation with the Kunstfest Weimar to send a signal against the right in the run-up to the state elections in Thuringia. Throughout Thuringia, 300 billboards will be used to display art instead of advertising and to enter into a dialog with the population on the values of democracy. This art is effective in public spaces, without hierarchy and fear of thresholds, and involves direct interaction. In addition, the works will be presented online and in social networks and made available to the public as posters for download. They will also be shown as an exhibition in the library of the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar as part of the Kunstfest Weimar from August 22 to September 8. The goal of the project is to use art to sensitize and mobilize the silent majority. The artworks are intended to provoke, make people think and sharpen their awareness of the importance of democracy. They are intended to show that diversity, openness to the world and tolerance are the most important values on which our society is based. ‘Kunst schafft Demokratie’ is a project that shows how art and culture can contribute to initiating social change.