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| Erik Steinbrecher, 'KULTURWÜRSTCHEN', 2007, installation view, pvc objects with pump |
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| John Isaacs, part of the 'NGORONGORO' group show / Berlin gallery weekend |
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| Michael Sailstorfer, part of the group show 'MATERIAL' at Galerie Johann König |
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| Friede sei mit Dir ('Peace be with you') also known as 'The Cock of Berlin', by sculptor Peter Lenk, commissioned in 2009 by the german newspaper Die Tageszeitung (Taz) |
"Residing on the exterior wall of the headquarters of left-wing German newspaper Taz the sculpture depicts a naked man with a five-storey-long penis that extends to the roof of the building and narrows into a cobra head at the tip. The man depicted is the editor of the right-wing paper Bildzeitung, Kai Diekmann, whose headquarters have a clear view of the installation from a few hundred meters away. The piece goes back to the two tabloids’ ideological rivalry between left- and right- wing, but began to really take shape in 2002 when the Taz published a satirical editorial about Diekmann’s (probably fictitious) penis enlargement surgery in Florida. It was one of many articles that were a part of the back-and-forth rivalry of the two papers, but this one caught national attention when Diekmann sued the Taz for damage - and lost. The court held, that the claimant in his function as chief editor of Bild had willingly decided to become an actor in a personal rights infringing business, from which he was profiting economically. Some time later, this piece of public art was commissioned as a visual expression of the Taz’ victory." (text excerpt from here)
