Bonn in January 2023 Art campaign: The gallery becomes a poor kitchen

Help is not art - but art can help!

Shortly before Christmas, is often shared. Then the Christmas tree shines a bit brighter in its own home.

But what happens after the festival? In January and February, when winter strikes with all matters, the days are short and the nights are bitterly cold? People don't stop starving just because the glow of lights and candle shimmer have had their day.

Compassion and helpfulness have to be based on the need, not on the calendar.

Help is not art - but art can help!

The artist Dennis Josef Meseg and his team will spend 100 warm meals every day between 5:00 p.m. to around 8:00 p.m. 100, as part of an art campaign in the update Gallery in Bonn, Breite Str. 85.

Free, to the needy people who want to eat, welcome and secure. Just like all of us.

What is there to eat today? ”Is a question that everyone knows and likes to ask because you feel so good. If everyone takes a seat at the table, the anticipation spreads out to a warm meal, security and the pleasant knowledge to be full again this time.

But there are also tables where this question is asked in a slightly different form.

"Is there anything to eat today?"

"No," is the answer there, and how bitter it has to be to see in hungry children's eyes. In the faces of old people who have worked all their lives and still only relate a lean pension.

Refugees, homeless, Hartz4 recipients, single mothers, victims of the flood disaster in the Ahr Valley-the list of those who do not get enough in our country is long.

And the unfortunate war, the exploding electricity and gas prices, the increasingly expensive foods do the rest to tighten this situation.

Maybe we can't help everyone. But we should try.

Because a little luck for everyone is very lucky for everyone.

The artist Dennis Josef Meseg

Dennis Josef Meseg his love for art at a young age The urge for artistic freedom left him home early.

At the age of just 23, he was a sensation as the youngest painter in a group exhibition in the French Gallery du Haut-Pavé in Paris-at that time still under the pseudonym "John Christoph Dionysos Sommersberg" .

On his own, he accepted every job that was offered to make a living because he could not live on the art alone. Ultimately, he decided with a heavy heart to leave the art aside and learn the regular profession of the media designer.

At the age of 40 he succeeded in realizing his dream as an artist.

Due to his retrospective , with which he applied to the Alanus University in Alfter at Bonn in 2019, two independent professors certified that he was extremely artistic artistic talent, which secured him to apprable for art studies at the Alanus University.

Spontaneously, he decided to study sculpture, attracted to the abundance of material that was offered to him when he visited the sculptors' studios of his fellow students. From the beginning, the driving force of his art was trying to make thoughts and feelings literally tangible, to find themselves, to recognize, to recognize, define.

Dennis Josef Meseg has remained true to this philosophy of life:

"I let every single plate work on me with a special breathing technique to get your secret on the track. Every feeling that penetrated me as a special moment was then documented in one or more cuts."

- Installation "A thousand moments | Bonn 2020"