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 is a sucker for rewriting stories. She caused a furor last year with F*CK LOLITA for which writer Annet Bremen rewrote with her the story of Nabokov's iconic novel heroine Lolita. Now she is organizing a fictional encounter that could have changed the course of history had it happened!