MALEREI HEUTE

In the summer of 1998 I started painting water-color paintings of the billboards put up in the urban landscape of Berlin. From the outset, each sheet was a «take» of a documentary film, which records the economical, political and interpersonal changes that become obvious on the «public» images from 1998 to 2005. The long-term documentary Malerei heute starts at a point in time when changes in the working and living conditions in reunited Germany become obvious and through the change of government politically relevant, and it assumes liability for a visual discussion of the term «work». (Stefan Hayn)