What is Sticker Art?

Sticker Art has its roots in Graffiti and Street Art, which sought to bring art into everyday life. Since text is often used, it is also created in the tradition of Art & Language. Stickers are designed to be placed in public places to communicate with everyday people outside of the “white cube.”

My stickers accompany exhibitions by the Artnauts Collective and are related to themes that the collective addresses in places of trauma and conflict throughout the world. Stickers were herein conceptualized as an expanded view of art in the tradition of Joseph Beuys’ ideas of “social sculptures” as an activity to generate a dialogue related to social transformation in society of a social issue.

At the exhibition venue, stickers are distributed, and a discussion often ensues about their meaning and relevance. Stickers are given to students in schools and universities, hotel clerks, taxi drivers, as well as Artnauts members to distribute as they wish. Everyone is instructed to place the stickers in public places — car bumpers, poles, signs, trash cans, walls, or any other surface found in the public arena. Thereby, stickers become public art stimulating social change.