The photographer and documentary filmmaker David Klammer accompanied us with his camera during our solidarity art intervention in support of the resistance led by the NGO group ENDE GELÄNDE against the construction of LNG terminals on the island of Rügen.

Politicians, together with a large part of society, have so far failed to fully recognise the devastating consequences of unchecked consumption patterns and the closely connected, limitless global extraction of natural resources. Instead of fundamentally questioning these developments and reducing our energy consumption accordingly, a familiar expectation of unlimited availability continues to be treated as self-evident.

As a result, new LNG terminals continue to be constructed with little hesitation, while the expansion of renewable energies and the necessary transformation of our relationship with energy remain hesitant and insufficient in the face of the existential threat posed by global warming.

Through our art, we sought to support the resistance of ENDE GELÄNDE and strengthen its public visibility—just as we had done in 2019 at the Garzweiler II open-cast mine. Climate activism is not a crime; it is a necessary response to a situation in which governments and societies worldwide have not yet taken sufficient action themselves.

Increasingly, renowned cultural institutions have acknowledged the importance of activism and resistance movements in addressing these questions. Institutions such as the German Architecture Museum Frankfurt, the MAK – Museum of Applied Arts Vienna, and the Venice Architecture Biennale 2025 have recognised and given visibility to these forms of civic engagement.