Planetarische Bauern

The term “barricade” derives from the French “barrique”, the wine barrel into which sand and earth were poured to block the road. With their works, the artist duo Olivier Guesselé-Garai (born 1976) and Antje Majewski (born 1968) set up a barricade in the museum.
Guesselé-Garai’s part is made by oak barrels, agricultural flails, sickles, shovels, tractor bodies, electronic components, milking stools, boots, vessels, wheels from the 19th to the 21st century. It blocks the path, but also allows you to go away from the beaten, hegemonic track. It recalls the conflictual and resistant peasant movements back in the days and today; popular protests, social conflicts, the resistance of serfs, proletarian uprisings and strikes, and the fight for social justice and the commons, also crucial in our world.