Folke Köbberling and Martin Kaltwasser have been working on their concept of

artistic and aesthetic opposition to following issues: pressure to consume, growing

surveillance, and ever increasing motor traffic threaten to change the appearance

of our cities in a fundamental way. They suggest alternatives to the consumerist

ideology—structural interventions, artistic statements, actions, and theories.

Köbberling and Kaltwasser use streets, squares, bridges, parks, and interiors as

areas in which to operate. The materials used always originate from existing

“urban resources”: throw- or giveaway objects and even garbage. Each of their

works is therefore founded on communicative and social aspects. At the same time,

they stimulated to emulate, disseminate, and multiply their strategies, since they

can be realised with the simplest of materials