Icons of the Time, 2020, Installation, The Three Imported Abrachamian Religions Export of Ideologies None of the three Abrachamian religions (the main religions in Europe) originated in Europe, all were adopted or imported from (or exported from) the Orient. So none of the religions in Europe are authentic. Whether Confucianism is a religion or a philosophy is a matter of debate. What is undisputed, however, is that it was created in China and is therefore authentic. In Europe, several ideologies emerged for this, such as Communism or Fascism, which later spread around the world.

From Confucius to Mao, 2020, installation, 150x30cm Confucius, cross made of wooden sticks, Karl Marx portrait, Mao in Paris

Capital and the "Opium of the People", 2021, Installation, Capital, 1867, Book, Karl Marx, iPod, 2001 The Bible or the Whole Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, Book, Various Writers, According to the German translation Dr. Martin Luther's, 1534

Handmade, 2020, print, 50x70cm Daoism, Yin and Yang; Judaism, Star of David; Christianity, Cross; Islam, crescent and star; Communism Star Yin and Yang (e.g. light and dark), Yin and yang (Chinese 陰陽 / 阴阳, pinyin yīn yáng) are two terms of Chinese philosophy, especially Taoism. Star of David, Crescent, and Red Star (Star) are all abstract symbols representing phenomena or celestial bodies, while the Cross represents an object from this world, an object built of wood. A torture and execution device from ancient times, which should prolong the agony if possible. The cross is the only religious symbol that can be created by human hands.

CICERO: "Nomen ipsum crucis absit non modo a corpore civium Romanorum, sed etiam a cogitatione, oculis, auribus." “What means a cross should not only stay away from the bodies of the citizens of Rome, but also from their perception, their eyes and ears.

Golden electric chair, 2020, gold pendant, 585 gold, Google search Golden cross, diamond cross,
Do the people who wear crosses in different materials ask themselves what is hanging on their necks? Already in ancient times, various peoples such as Romans, Persians, Greeks or Jews used the cross as a torture device, which subsequently also led to death. Because Jesus Christ* hung on the cross (although there is no evidence) Christians used this torture device as a symbol of their religion from the 4th century onwards.

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The cross is one of the main symbols of Christianity**. During the French Revolution (1789-1799), the death penalty was the guillotine, formerly reserved only for "blue-blooded" / "noblemen". In this way, equality for citizens was also achieved in this area. The "ordinary" citizens, who used to hang on the gallows and had to suffer painfully and for a long time, were beheaded under the guillotine, like the "nobles", in a tenth of a second. A hundred years later, the electric chair was invented in the United States. As a modern torture device, the electric chair differs little from the torture device of antiquity.

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The small difference is that in the present, the electric energy is used for torture, first to torment the punished (the procedure is repeated a few times) and then to murder him. The electric chair is still used in some U.S. states. In the context of the exhibition, it becomes visible how the character of a device changes the entire meaning with the spatial shift (from the periphery to the center).

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* There is no evidence that Jesus hung on the cross. In the old scriptures it is mentioned that he hung on the σταυρός staurós (wood, tree), only in the translation of the New Testament was the word crux (Latin cross) introduced.

** from Wikipedia Christ on the cross between Mary and John, detail, 1523/24 Matthias Grünewald

Regicide and Revolution, 2019, installation, regicide, regicide after the revolution French Revolution May 5, 1789 – Nov. 9, 1799 King Louis XVI Digital print on canvas Beheaded January 21, 1793 Musée Ingres-Bourdelle - Portrait of Louis XVI - Joseph-Siffred Duplessis 227.0 × 175.0 cm Mass copy 100x75 Russian Revolution 8. March 1917 – 16 June 1923 Emperor Nicholas II shot dead on July 17, 1918 Chinese Civil War 1927 to 1949 photography Chinese Emperor Pu Yi 1906-1967 Aisin Gioro Puyi 愛新覺羅‧溥儀 / 爱新觉罗 溥仪,

+ Shi, 2021, triptych, calligraphy, suprematism, neoplastic, the plus (+) sign, mathematician Johannes Widmann, 1489. For some the symbol ´+´ has a mathematical meaning (plus), for others a religious one (cross), for the Chinese a number (10) and in art (Mondrian, Malevich) it can have a horizontal and a vertical meaning, among other things mean line. 

The cross has been known as a symbol since the Stone Age (e.g. in stone carvings), but usually cannot be interpreted. As an arithmetic symbol, it is more recent. It was still common in the 15th century to spell out the words "plus" and "minus". The first plus sign in print appeared in the work 'Mercantile Arithmetic oder behange und schön Rechen auff allen Kauffmanschacht' by Johannes Widmann, published in Leipzig in 1489.

Center,  Original Mac Book Air 13-inch packaging Dimensions: 32x25cm Mixed media: print on cardboard and tempera on cardboard The 中 Zhang sign, which stands for 'center', 'in the middle' or 'OK', among other things, is drawn on the packaging of a MacBook Air. The computer itself forms the vertical line. Thus, the US computer (made in China) becomes part of the Zhang character.

Oversized origin of the world for Übermensch, 2021.75x100cm digital print on canvas, "L'Origine du monde" Gustave Courbet, 1866 for Khalil Bey. Original: L'Origine du monde ("The Origin of the World") Gustave Courbet, 1866 Oil on canvas 46×55cm Musée d'Orsay Gustave Courbet painted The Origin of the World in 1866 as a commission for the Turkish diplomat and art collector Halil Şerif Paşa, also known as Khalil Bey, who owned, among Courbet's other nudes, The Turkish Bath by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. According to the French literary scholar, the person depicted is Constance Quéniaux, a ballet dancer at the Paris Opéra and at the same time the lover of the picture customer, Khalil Bey.

Kung Fu Bruce Lee, Original Poster 79x50cm 

ME of Bones, 2020 "I know that I know nothing." 1 "I think therefore I am." 2 The center of all things in the universe is the I. The same principle can be used for the periphery. Without I there is no beginning and no end, no center and no periphery. Exactly where the ego is located is still a mystery.  1 Socrates, Ancient Greek “oἶδα οὐκ εἰδώς” 2 René Descartes, Latin "ego cogito, ergo sum"

Small tip observation, 2020, Moabi Calligraphic brush (since 1600 BC) Pen (since 4th century AD) One of the most important points to understand a culture is the Scriptures. Do the writing implements affect the content of the text when you write? In Europe since the 4th century AD. Bird feathers used as writing implements. In China, calligraphy brushes are made from bamboo canes and rabbit hair. The nibs have a soft body (handle) and a hard - static tip, while the Chinese brush has a hard body (handle) and a soft, moving tip. info The Chinese characters can be considered the oldest writing system in the world and still in use today, going back to the Shang Dynasty (1600–1046 BC).

13. Hase, 1502, Albrecht Dürer

Place in Art, 2021, Debby Harry, Chinese worker, anonymous, Andy Warhol, photograph 30x10cm Three portraits, 2021, Debby Harry, Chinese worker, Anonymous, Andy Warhol, photograph 30x10cm Debbie Harry, Chinese citizen, Andy Warhol 1980

Silk jogging, 2020, Traditional Chinese silk jacket, Synthetic jogging jacket A traditional Chinese silk jacket and, as an undershirt, an Adidas tracksuit jacket made of synthetic materials, also made in China, are presented as a fashion proposal.

Between Feet and the Earth, 2020, top to bottom: Black and white photograph of the foot of the colossal statue of Constantine the Great 312-315, Rome - X-ray images of the left and right lotus feet, Chinese tradition(until XX century) - leather high shoes size 32 - women's woolen socks from the region of Hasi (Hasjane)

Ma Lin and Mona Lisa, 2021, digital print on canvas: 75cmx50cm Mona Lisa (1503) Leonardo da Vinci, "Listening to the Wind in the Pines" (1246) The Mona Lisa (1503, 77 cm x 53 cm) is also represented in this exhibition. Despite numerous mysteries that this work hides, in this "version" of the Mona Lisa a few new questions are raised very subtly in the background of the work. The magic of this work only lets the viewer guess at second glance that this picture is not an original picture by Leonardo da Vinci. In the background of the picture is a different landscape than that in the original picture. A landscape from China spreads out behind the portrait of Lisa. The well-known Chinese artist Ma Lin is quoted as listening to the wind in the pines (1246). The work also hides other mysteries, but these are left for the viewer to discover for themselves during the exhibition. While pictures without religious motifs were not painted in Europe until the Renaissance, this had long been the case in China. Ma Lin. Mask of the Baule, Ivory Coast, Baule people. Chinese mask wood. Beijing Opera Mask, plastic.

The Sun, 2020, Installation,  Silk Cloth and Bamboo Parasol, Poster Children Dancing at Tiananmen Square, 1967,

Poster Comrade with Tractor 1968,

Powerballing - China Girl (1977) Iggy Pop and David Bowie, Berlin, single cover Nile Rodgers, the producer of David Bowie's 1983 version of the song, offered his own interpretation of the lyrics: "I thought 'China Girl' was about doing drugs because 'China' is 'China White', what so much like heroin means 'girl' is 'cocaine.' I thought it was a song about speed balling".

The transition, 2019, installation, baroque cross, neoclassical Three Graces - Antonio Canova 10x10x20cm "Art without frills"

Lucky Charm, 2021, Installation, Maneki neko, Waving Cat, Paris Sights - Souvenir Arc de Triomphe, Eiffel Tower, Notre-Dame de Paris Cathedral "When China awakens, the world will tremble", Napoleon

E hangsh kryt toń / Eat your head, Kos. Saying, 2020, Bronze, Aphrodite's head on a Chinese soup plate Kos. Proverb / swearword "That you eat your head (yourself)." According to Greek mythology, Aphrodite (Ancient Greek Ἀφροδίτη; classical pronunciation: /apʰrodíːtɛː/; Koine: /aɸroðíti/; modern philological pronunciation: /afrodíːtɛː/) is the goddess of love, beauty and sensual desire and one of the canonical twelve Olympian deities . She was particularly revered as the patron saint of sexuality and reproduction, ensuring both the continuity of nature and the continuity of human communities. Her counterpart in Roman mythology is Venus.

Rice plate, 2020, ceramic plate, diameter 30cm, rice, 100g of uncooked rice has an average of 350 kcal.Around a billion people today have no more than that to survive. Guide values for daily energy intake Men 2300 kcal per day Women 1800 kcal per day 100 g of uncooked rice has an average of 350 kcal. "The Three-Year Great Chinese Famine" occurred in 1959–1961 Estimates of the dead range from 15 to at least 55 million people In 1981, after the launch of "reform and opening-up," the Chinese Communist Party officially declared that the famine was mainly due to the failures of the "Great Leap Forward" and the "anti-rightist campaign," in addition to some natural disasters and the "Chinese -Soviet rift" cannibalism “I went to one village and saw 100 corpses, then another village and another 100 corpses. No one paid attention to them. People said that dogs were eating the bodies. 'Not true', I said. The dogs had long ago been eaten by the people.” “I went to one village and saw 100 bodies, then another 100 bodies in the next village. Nobody took any notice of them. It was said that the dogs ate the corpses. 'It can't be,' I said, because the dogs had long since been eaten by the people." – Yu Dehong cannibalism There are extensive oral accounts, as well as some official documentation, of cannibalism occurring in various forms as a result of the famine. Because of the scale of the famine, the resulting cannibalism has been described as unprecedented in 20th-century history. Big leap forward The Great Chinese Famine was caused by social pressures, economic mismanagement, and radical agricultural restructuring. Mao Zedong, head of the Chinese Communist Party, introduced drastic changes in agriculture that prohibited private property. Violations of this led to prosecution. The social pressures imposed on citizens regarding agriculture and commerce controlled by the government led to state instability. According to government statistics, approximately 36 million people died during that period due to legislation passed during the "Great Leap Forward" between 1958 and 1962.[51] Iron and steel production has been identified as a key industry for economic progress. Millions of peasants were withdrawn from agriculture in order to increase the workforce in the steel and iron industry. According to a study, up to 50 percent of global food production ends up in the garbage due to incorrect storage and excessive consumption.

Ping Pong Ball on St. Peter's Square, 2020, plastic

1KG Bananas, April 8, 2022