A "Mural for Aachen" on the bunker of Sandkaulstraße
Implementation: Sept./Oct. 2000

organization: Dritte Welt Forum e.V. Aachen   co-operation: Aachen City Council: Women’s Office, Planning Department, Department for Arts and Culture Aachener Südafrika Initiative, Dreieck.Triangle.Driehoek e.V. Artists: Xolile Mtakatya/Südafrika . Brele Scholz/Aachen . Uta Göbel-Groß/Aachen

cultur summer at the cathedral

mural of Aachen

detail

The bunker is in the centre of Aachen, in approx. 10 minutes walking distance to the Cathedral and the City Hall. It is located on Sandkaulstraße, which leads from the off-ramp “Würselen“ in the north directly into the city centre. The central position attracts a lot of visitors.








"A mural for Aachen"

The team

The cities Aachen and Tygerberg (one out of six substructures forming Cape Town) signed a Memorandum of Understanding in June 2000, which is based on AGENDA 21. The Memorandum lines out the co-operation and support of Non-Governmental-Organisations. Since March 1998 there is an existing Partnership between WELTHAUS AACHEN e.V. and KERIC (Khayelitsha Education Resource and Information Centre) of the township Khayelitsha, near Cape Town.

Khayelitsha

Khayelitsha residents count three quarters of a million people, living crowded on a small place. A bitter legacy of Apartheid is poverty. Organisations like KERIC and KHAYMEP (Khayelitsha Media and Development Project) empower members of the community and fight for a liveable and healthy life. “Therefore the partnership between Worldhouse and Keric is a fundamental aspect of the work done by environmental and One World action groups. What links us together is the joint objective to create a sustainable environment for our communities based on a socio-economically and ecologically just development.“

Internet: Community H.E.A.R.T: www.community-heart.org.uk


The artists

Xolile Mtakatya

Xolile Mtakatya was born in Cape Town 1968. Since he lived in political detention due to his active membership of the Cape Youth Congress in 1986, he proofed his artistic skills. He studied and graduated 1993 in "Fine Arts". He participates and runs workshops artistic design for community projects. Besides freelancing he works for KHAYMEP as a designer and painter. During the past years he collected experience in international projects, for instance the MURAL GLOBAL project in Osnabrück in 1999 and in Hagen and Essen in 2000.

Xolile Mtakatya

Brele Scholz

Lebensfries ( Detail)

Brele Scholz started her self-developed carrier in political graphic design. She left this narrow frame and continued into a broader artistic expression. Through personal questions she seeks essential and general expressions of human behaviour. Favourite examples of her artistic style are her projects "Ortlos", which is an installation highlighting asylum and refugees and the installation "Fluchtgeschichten", which are visualised interviews in Germany during 1933-1948. Uta Göbel-Groß

Uta Göbel-Groß

The artworks of Uta Göbel-Groß reflects her intensive interaction with different cultures, with their expression and their meaning. Her artistic work is the work of a visual archaeologist. She goes deeply into ethnical roots, presents bridges between cultures and integrates different elements like a puzzle into her style. She creates intercultural dialogues.
Other artworks are visible traces of people, for instance the body-negatives "BRUST" and dialogues with signs, symbols and found objects (wooden objects, "ANGST ESSEN SEELE AUF", series: "WALKABOUT").

Walkabout VI

The concept of the "Mural for Aachen" seeks the interaction with an intercultural dialogue through the different artistic signatures of the three artists. The task is to develop the subject during painting the mural. Mankind, his actions and the attitude towards his own world is in the centre of the artwork.








Supporters:Sponsors:
The "Mural for Aachen" is financed through awarded money by the MASSKS (Province Nordrhein Westfalen) and by the Agenda Office and the Department for Arts and Culture, both City Council of Aachen.Itertalklinik Aachen & Seniorenheim Walheim

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