World Climate Refugee Camp

The World Climate Refugee Camp is an installation by the German artist Hermann Josef Hack and currently consists of over 1,000 miniature tents the size of a shoebox, which Hack has made and painted himself since 2007. With this miniature climate refugee camp, Hack makes the consequences of climate change visible for millions of people in the metropolises of affluent European countries. Previous stations of the climate refugee camp have been the UN Climate Secretariat in Bonn, the UNHCR General Directorate in Berlin, the marketplaces of Leipzig, Bremen and Offenbach, Pariser Platz and Alexanderplatz in Berlin, the Theaterplatz in front of the German National Theater Weimar, the Frankfurt Fraport Airport and the state offices Art collections Dresden.