Co-curation and graphic design for a protest art exhibition in Berlin showcasing international artists and collectives appropriating and altering billboards and other advertising spaces in the service of political art and social issues. It featured ‘subvertising’ on themes ranging from hyper-consumerism, the climate crisis, and surveillance capitalism to police violence, religious authority and the criminalisation of sex workers.
The exhibition included a retrospective history of the practice - from avant-garde montage in the early twentieth century to ‘culture-jamming’ in the 1990s - featuring Guerilla Girls, Adbusters and The Yes Men. It was the first exhibition to demonstrate how they have become a central, sustained and evolving aspect of the art of protest.
Werbepause ran at Kunstraum Kreuzberg between 18th June and 21st August 2022.