“Homo Bellicus” is the title of a series of extended art exhibitions centred around the topic of institutionalised violence. The project reacts on current crisis while attempting to bypass popular politic- and media endorsed polarisations and simplifications; it gathers a complex and multileveled meshwork of challenging and controversial subjective perspectives from artists around the world living in virtual or actual warzones.
The first show took place fall 2006 in Williamsburg New York and presented the diverse contributions of 26 international artists, professionals as well as students of European and American academies.
The exhibition in Berlin, summer 2007 expanded the network of the NY exhibition to broaden the scope of artworks as well as of the diversity of nationalities represented; 78 artists from around the globe participated.
The project reflects a need from within the artistic community to re- and interact with current public discourse, but to do so on its own inherent premises; It is organised by a small group of artists attempting to extend self-sustainable artistic research networks autonomous to the restraints of a traditional museal/gallery framing
