Press preview: 07/11/2018
Opening with a solemn ceremony: 09/11/2018
Duration: November 10, 2018 – January 06, 2019
​Location: German Bundestag, Reichstag building, Berlin
Concept: Volker-Johannes Trieb and Mattijs Visser
Realisation: Art & Culture International gGmbH
For tickets and more information: www.art-culture-international.de 


The First World War ended on 11 November 1918. One hundred years later, 31 internationally renowned artists are designing a mobile memorial for peace. The joint art project will be revealed in the context of the official ceremony on 9 November in the German Bundestag.

Together with the curator Mattijs Visser, the Osnabrück artist and initiator, Volker-Johannes Trieb, was able to recruit artists from all 31 nations that were militarily involved in the war to participate in this joint project. The art project is to be understood equally as a symbol for peace and as a memorial warning against war.

The starting point for the artistic work is a block of oak with dimensions of 30 x 30 x 30 cm, which was made available to all of the participating artists for individual design and processing. The wood originates from a bitterly contested section of the front near Hirtzbach in Alsace, and still bears traces of the war today: wounds, metallic remainders of the most varied military projectiles and black discolouration make these wood elements evidence of the past.

The exhibition “1914/1918 – Not Then, Not Now, Not Ever” can be viewed from 10 November 2018 to 06 January 2019 in the context of tours through the German Bundestag before it is shown in 2019 in New York in cooperation with the UN.


Participating artists:
  • Aljoscha (Ukraine)
  • Miroslaw Balka (Poland)
  • Jean Boghossian (Armenia)
  • Christian Boltanski (France),
  • Monika Bonvicini (Italy)
  • Wim Botha (South Africa)
  • Geta Bratescu (Romania)
  • Pedro Cabrita Reis (Portugal)
  • Tony Cragg (United Kingdom)
  • Berlinde De Bruyckere (Belgium)
  • Braco Dimitrijevic (Croatia)
  • Cevdet Erek (Turkey)
  • Fiona Hall (Australia)
  • IRWIN (Slovenia)
  • Ilya & Emilia Kabakov (Russia)
  • Anish Kapoor (India)
  • David McCracken (New Zealand)
  • Hermann Nitsch (Austria)
  • Roman Ondak (Slovakia)
  • Sandor Pinczehelyi (Hungary)
  • Horio Sadaharu (Japan)
  • Sean Scully (Ireland)
  • Kiki Smith (USA)
  • Nedko Solakov (Bulgaria)
  • Jana Sterback (Canada)
  • Rirkrit Tiravanija (Thailand)
  • Rasa Todosijevic (Serbia)
  • Günther Uecker (Germany)
  • Costas Varotsos (Greece)
  • Huang Yong Ping (China)
  • Jana Zelibska (Czech Republic) 
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