Jonathan P. Vickery, Mechtild Manus (Hg.)

In this book, writers from Germany, France, the UK, Poland, and Serbia discuss the life work of one of Europe’s most important artists, Jochen Gerz.

His works in public space circle around the emergence of individual and collective memory, the past and the future of Europe. Through their participative method, they bring the democratic potential of art to the foreground in a special way. With his artworks, Gerz invites all to participate, quite regardless of nationality, language, class, or religion. Hence the “multitude” here in the title, which is used in the originally prepolitical sense as “mixed multitude” from the Bible.