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Surrend is a Danish artist duo, consisting of Jan Egesborg and Pia Bertelsen, who stand out primarily for their provocative actions. They succeeded in placing an article in the state-run Tehran Times that ostensibly supported President Mahmoud Ahmadineschad , but contained the encrypted message SWINE (pig).
The group was founded on the occasion of the funeral of the former Serbian President Milošević and has set itself the task of countering ironic and provocative actions against those in power and thereby gaining media attention. They themselves do not belong to any group or NGO .
In spring 2007 they aroused the public's interest by hanging up supposed NPD posters in Berlin , which on closer inspection turned out to be a parody.
In May 2007, Egesborg was arrested during a visit by Russian President Vladimir Putin to Vienna after he had seen a poster with the ironic question "Will Putin shoot journalists?" had attached. In June 2007 the artist group posted posters in Berlin against the Pope's attitude towards homosexuality. * In 2008 the group exhibited posters under the title ZOG (Zionist Occupied Government) at the Tiergarten Art Association. There were protests because a stone shrine was depicted on a poster above the "stupid stone" .
On January 9th, 2009 Egesborg caused a sensation with posters and cards on the topic of the financial crisis in Kassel . A fictional Kassel artist named Moll Morgengrau is quoted with sentences such as u. a .: "Finally a protracted, profound, depressive financial crisis" or "More financial crisis please, finally everyone is as poor as me".
In April 2010, Surrend posted posters in several inner-city districts of Berlin calling for the " final solution " for the State of Israel. In interviews they made it clear that this demand is not meant ironically. The choice of words, which took up the vocabulary of National Socialism, and the demand that the only Jewish state in the world be "wiped off the map" earned the artists the accusation of sedition and anti-Semitism. Jan Egesborg, who is himself a Jew and lost relatives in the Holocaust , stressed that there was a mechanism that triggered criticism of Israel and that the group wanted to show with the poster. Her actions are "satirical tools" for uncovering taboos and for her, exposure is above dialogue.
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- ↑ Tagesspiegel: "Surrend" hangs NS posters in Berlin
- ↑ Kassel newspaper: Carricatura condemned the arrest of Surrend
- ↑ Danish artist group "Surrend" posters in Berlin against the Pope
- ↑ taz: Danes want to provoke the Pope
- ↑ Der Spiegel : Man stuck door locks - investigation initiated March 5, 2008
- ↑ Waldeckische Landeszeitung : It will continue anyway January 14, 2009
- ↑ Der Tagesspiegel: Israel artistically erased from the map
- ^ Art against taboos. The group surrender and the provocation . 3sat Kulturzeit, May 25, 2010