In these times, more and more young people around the world have had enough of the destructive political and economic alliances that shape our lives. They are taking to the streets and offering urgently necessary resistance to misguided and irresponsible policies—policies that, in some cases, have taken on an outright contempt for life itself.
Neoliberal capitalism has revealed itself as a deadly sin.
Peaceful protest—powerful, imaginative and creative.
In June 2019, we joined one of these movements, ENDE GELÄNDE—a name that, in these times, sounds almost prophetic—in its resistance against RWE.
Together with around 1,500 people, we entered Europe’s largest lignite-mining landscape, the Garzweiler–Hambach open-cast mine, walking, sliding, jumping and running through the vast mining site.
We wanted to bear witness down there, 450 metres below ground level.
Painting en plein air under extreme conditions—against an absurd corporate policy, in support of a future worth living.
What emerged was a gigantic artistic statement—one that simply could not be overlooked.
