Street Art

The COVID-19 pandemic intensified a growing feeling of powerlessness. While my online project lokalein.kaufen focused on the vulnerabilities of local economies and digital infrastructures, I was searching for something more immediate – something offline.

I discovered street art as a new way to reclaim public space, express frustration and participate in collective discourse through small interventions.

In 2020, I created my first meme sticker: “Amazon? Nein danke” [Amazon? No Thanks], inspired by the iconic anti-nuclear slogan “Atomkraft? Nej Tak”. It is my response to the growing dominance of global platforms over local economies. What started as @amazonneindanke evolved into @leidernein [unfortunately no], a collection of fragmented thoughts turned into spontaneous public commentary, and into @cortexmonkey, an exploration of character-based visual language.

As a digital native, I grew up within online communities and meme culture.

In 2016, together with Frieder Nake, we explored memes as semiotic and iterative signs in the performance “Memes and Art and Digital Media”. Memes function as compact, reproducible units of meaning that evolve through circulation and reinterpretation. My stickers operate in a similar way: Reproducible, participatory and designed to provoke thought in physical space.

Over time, my perception of street art shifted from seeing it as public destruction to understanding it as a form of distributed communication within shared urban environments.

My interventions are temporary contributions to this process – small visual acts that can subtly shift attention and perception.

I approach the city as a dynamic communication field where meaning is continuously produced, transformed and overwritten.