Stadtteil gestalten – Demokratie gestalten – Gestaltung demokratisieren
Politisches Graffiti
Institut für Selbstorganisation / Café Rabe
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In his talk The City as a Wall Newspaper – Political Graffiti, Robert Kaltenhäuser draws on a range of examples from his research collection to show the spectrum and potential of political graffiti.
From blunt slogans to suit every taste to sophisticated critiques of ideology, quite a lot has found its unauthorized way onto walls and trains over the past hundred years. Romanes eunt domus! As the Romans would say...
Robert Kaltenhäuser is an art critic, author and curator of urban art, focusing on self-authorized mark-making beyond graffiti writing and street art. An advocate of Enlightenment universalism, he works on identitarian ideologies in culture. In 2023 he edited the anthology Graffiti und Politik (Beltz Juventa). His book and video project Art Inconsequence – Advanced Vandalism is regarded as a milestone of graffiti conceptualism.
