- Installation/ Intervention in public space
- Stiftung Starke, Berlin
- 1992
‘Jetzt Zeichen setzen’ uses an object at a specific time, which gives it a special effect. Every year at Christmas, colourful Christmas lights flicker in thousands of window frames all over Berlin. These fairy lights are always there. The installation of Botschaft hangs a week earlier and instrumentalises them for a fictitious ‘movement’. Weeks later, the fairy lights against xenophobia are lit up all over Germany and the then Federal President Richard von Weizsäcker also wants to make a mark.
'The final occupation of the window niche as a bastion between the locked-out viewer and the locked-in art has been found by the Botschaft e.V.. A poster with the inscription 'All Berliners are united. Make a Mark Now', outside you can see decorative Christmas lights'. (Harald Fricke, TAZ from 5 december1992)
This collective artistic work by the Botschaft e.V. group was created as part of the ‘richtig '92’ series of events at the invitation of the Starke Foundation Berlin.