single works of art
Centre for Political Beauty: First European fall of the wall (Erster Europäischer Mauerfall), art project, 2014

14 white crosses, which commemorate those who died trying to cross the Berlin wall in the centre of Berlin, where brought to the outer European borders in Melilla by a group of artists. The artists state the the victims of the Berlin wall "fled in an act of spontaneous solidarity" to join those who die on their way to Europe, their "future brothers and sisters".

Link to artist's website (German)
Ai Wei Wei: Dumbass, music video, 2013

The track is Ai Weiwei’s reflection on the struggle of protecting human rights and the freedom of expression in China. His frequent run-ins with the Chinese government eventually led to his 81-day secret detention between April and June 2011.

Link to artist's website
Art works project: AT WHAT COST, sound story, 2012

 A sound story constisting of interviews from Immokalee, Florida about workers rights in American Agriculture.

Link to project's website
Thomas Kilpper: Migration to Europe via Lampedusa, print on fabric, 2009-2010

Thomas Kilppers wood cutting of migrants travelling to Europe via Lampedusa was shown in the exhibition Newtopia in Belgium in 2012.

Link to artist's website
Sheenkai Alam Stanikzai: 40 Girls (Chel Dokhtaraan), installation, 2009

Sheenkai Alam Stanikzai is an Afghan female artist who works with photography, video and installation art to address political and gender issues. She was awarded the third Freedom to Create Price in 2009 and her work was shown in the "Freedom to Create Prize" exhibition in New York City in 2010.

The Kumjing Storytellers: Paper machée dolls, 2009

A group of Burmese refugee women, who live in refugee camps at the border between Thailand and Burma, creates giant paper mache dolls who travel across Thailand and the world to tell their stories and raise awareness of their situation. They were awarded the second Freedom to Create Price in 2009 and their work was shown in the "Freedom to Create Prize" exhibition in New York City in 2010.
Morten Traavik: Miss Landmine Cambodia, photographs, 2009

After organizing it in Angola in 2008, in 2009 Morten Traavik organized a second beauty contest for victims of landmines in Cambodia challenging beauty concepts and ideas of the female body.
Mimmo Palladino -  The Door of Europe, 2008


The Door of Europe is a monument erected in Lampedusa to commemorate those who lost their lives in crossing the maritime border to European waters and the risks that they took in the hope of a better life. 
Shirin Neshat: Rapture, video installation, 1999

Neshat (born 1957) is an Iranean visual artist who lives in New York. Her work refers to the social, cultural and religious codes of Muslim societies and the complexity of certain oppositions, such as man and woman. Rapture” is a two-channel video projection divided down gender lines. The male protagonists of the narrative are projected on the left wall of the gallery, the women on the right.
Barbara Paterson: "Women are persons!", bronze statues, 1999

The 'Women are persons!' monument or 'Famous five' monument located in Calgary, Canada, was created by Barbara Paterson. The bronce statues honours Emily Murphy, Irene Parlby, Louise McKinney, Henrietta Muir Edwards and Nellie Mcclung. The five women successfully launched a legal challenge in 1928 to legally recognize Canadian women as "persons", who can be elected for the Senate.
Alfredo Jaar: The Rwanda Project (The eyes of Gutete Emerita), photograph, 1996, internet version 1997

Alfredo Jaar visited Rwanda months after the genocide in 1994. 'The Eyes of Gutete Emerita' deals with the woman's suffering in Rwandan genocide. Gutete Emerita witnessed the murder of her husband and sons. The photography is part of Jaar's series named 'Rwandan Projects'.

Link to online exhibition
Dani Karavan: The Way of Human Rights, sculpture, 1993

The monumental outdoor sculpture in Nuremberg, Germany is part of Nuremberg's efforts to shake off its Nazi-era reputation as the "City of the Party Rallies" and reinvent itself as a "City of Peace and Human Rights". The monument is intended as both a repudiation of past crimes and a permanent reminder that human rights are still regularly violated.
Pablo Picasso: Massacre in Korea, 1951 (Musée National Picasso, Paris)

 The painting is seen as a criticism of American intervention in the Korean War. It depicts the 1950 Sinchon Massacre, an act of mass killing carried out by North Koreans, South Koreans, and American forces in the town of Sinchon, North Korea.
Pablo Picasso: Guernica, 1937 (Museo Nacional Reina Sofía, Madrid)

Picasso's celebrated depiction of the Spanish Civil War here became an international symbol for the hostilities of war and a unifying symbol for all those who opposed it.
Otto Dix: The War (Stormtroops Advancing Under Gas), series of 50 etchings, 1924

Dix was profoundly affected by the sights of the war, and would later describe a recurring nightmare in which he crawled through destroyed houses. He represented his traumatic experiences in many subsequent works, including a portfolio of fifty etchings called Der Krieg, published in 1924.
Jakob Riies: How the others live (Bandits' Roost), photograph, 1890


 Riis mostly attributed the plight of the poor to environmental conditions, but he also divided the poor into two categories: deserving of assistance (mostly women and children) and undeserving (mostly the unemployed and intractably criminal). He wrote with prejudice about Jews, Italians, and Irish, and he stopped short of calling for government intervention. Still, the catalyst of his work was a genuine sympathy for his subjects, and his work shocked many New Yorkers.
Francisco de Goya: The Third of May, oil on canvas,1808/1814  (Museo del Prado, Madrid)

In the work, Goya sought to commemorate Spanish resistance to Napoleon`s armies during the occupation of 1808 in the Penisular War. The painting's content, presentation, and emotional force secure its status as a groundbreaking, archetypal image of the horrors of war.
Francisco de Goya: The disasters of War (No quieren), 82 aquatints 1810s (British Museum, London)

Los desastres de la guerra is a set of 82 aquatint prints created in the 1810s, and published in 1863, 35 years after Goyas death.
Jaques Callot: Miseries of War (The Hanging), two series of prints, 1630s

In the work, Goya sought to commemorate Spanish resistance to Napoleon`s armies during the occupation of 1808 in the Penisular War. The painting's content, presentation, and emotional force secure its status as a groundbreaking, archetypal image of the horrors of war.