I Like Art and Art Likes Me

Why those two! Because maybe art can save the world after all... Joseph Beuys created a furor in the arts after the Second World War. He believed that every person was an artist and could change the world with art. That is why he wanted everyone admitted to his classes at the art academy.

Would Adolf Hitler, an aspiring painter twice rejected from art school, have become a dictator? As Nazi leader, Hitler pushed hard for art as a propaganda tool and labeled all art that did not propagate the Nazi ideal as "degenerate. In addition to being an artist, Beuys was also a political activist and co-founded the German Greens. In I Like Art and Art Likes Me , art is pulled from its safe reserve and used to wage an ideological war.

Silke van Kamp has a soft spot for rewriting stories. Last year, she caused a sensation with F*CK LOLITA (winner of the 2026 Toneelschijf Prize), for which Annet Bremen rewrote the story of Nabokov’s iconic heroine Lolita based on Silke’s idea. Now she’s staging a fictional encounter that could have changed the course of history—if it had actually taken place!

• With discussion after the performance