“Two topics regularly make me fall silent: Art and deep poverty. Both spaces that I enter only cautiously so as not to be recognised as a stranger. But both also challenge me to redefine my view of the world. Art helps to cross the border to poverty. Poverty often hides, but art forces us to look.”
from the opening speech
Toskanische Säulenhalle Augsburg, 1.12.2012 – 6.01.2013
“As a homeless person, I had a great experience. In January. It was cold. I went into the Leopold Mozart Conservatory. It was warm there. I was afraid of being thrown out. I wasn’t dressed appropriately, after all. Then I listened to this free concert. Wonderful. It went on around eleven. Then it got sad: there was still snow. I was still outside. People were going home. And I just didn’t have any.”
Quote from the Augsburg Winter Journey ( Basilica St. Ulrich & Afra, Augsburg) Song cycle by Franz Schubert with life stories of homeless and socially excluded people an art project by Stefan Weiller
26.11.2011 bis 8.01.2012, Toskanische Säulenhalle Augsburg
