Wit power. Climate protection instead of fake news

Exhibition 4.7. – 18.8.2025

Vernissage on Friday, 4.7.2025 at 19:00, Global Group 3000, Leuschnerdamm 19, 10999 Berlin

Fake news relies on fear, anger and outrage. This is the emotional fuel that drives many people to share fake news. The algorithms love this, so fake news often spreads faster than verified facts. This also applies to climate change, the energy transition and transformation. How do you debunk fake news? How do you set positive signals instead?

The Global 3000 gallery has invited artists from all over the world to submit their proposals. 17 international artists from Lithuania, Greece, Germany and the USA have taken up the theme of fake news. On display are graphics, installations, photos, objects, videos, paintings and performances.

Program

Vernissage Fri., 4.7.2025, 7 pm

Welcome by Tom Albrecht, introduction to the exhibition by Katja Hock, Blues Kitchen play blues and folk with vocals and guitars.

Artist:Inside talk Fri. 11.7., 7 p.m.

Artists from the exhibition talk about their works on site and online with guests. Moderation Katja Hock

(Exhibition Closed 22.7.)

Happy Fake News Party Fri. 25.7., 7 pm

Humor dispels rumors. Guests collect fake news and sort it according to strength and subversion. Action by Tom Albrecht.

Simply plug in: solar power for tenantsIand ownersIers. Fri. 8.8., 7 pm,

Lecture with discussion. M.Sc. Hai Yen Le, SolarZentrum Berlin. Law, financing, profitability, examples, advice.

Finissage, performance Fri. 15.8., 7 pm.

Anna Staffel: FAKTEN ATTRAKTOR – an approach to reality or what Mandelbrot would have thought

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Group Global 3000 e.V.

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Leuschnerdamm 19

10999 Berlin, Germany

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Jury Team GG3: Tom Albrecht, Stephan Groß, Maria Korporal, Vera Leisibach, John Maibohm, Andrea Striesova

Curator: Tom Albrecht

Co-curator: Katja Hock

Here you will find a brief description of the individual works of art

In his 2021 graphic “The Alternative for Germany is blue.”, Thomas Behling names the people responsible for German fake news. A map of Germany, colored in black, red and gold, slowly sinks into the blue of the flat background.

Tom Lane challenges the US media narrative with “Bad Day” from 2025. Lane’s AI video transports the most powerful man in the USA into a never-ending soap opera that portrays Trump as flawed and ordinary.

Alexander Rommel also refers to the Trump administration. In a digital painting, a fictitious oil island is ablaze.

Slovenian artist Tajda Stiplovšek-Jug is showing a three-part installation work inspired by former Slovenian right-wing Prime Minister Janez Janša, who denies climate change. The artist depicts a fictitious digital market that trades snow as a luxury commodity.

With “Big Tech”, Carsten Brock plays with the names of the big social media players such as X, formerly Twitter, YouTube and Facebook and exposes the channels as co-responsible for spreading fake news.

In “Everything is True, Nothing is False; Everything is False, Nothing is True”, Romanian artist Diana Păun explores language as a tool of power in society. Using sculpture, sound, text and photo collage, she examines common disinformation, propaganda and conspiracy theories.

Stefanie Raetsch’sthree-part photo series “Art on a tree – nature doesn’t lie” criticizes the food industry: small information signs can be discovered on various tree barks from Senegal. They offer descriptions of the contents, composed of a flood of information on terms such as “gluten-free” or “salt-free”, which are common for convenience products.

Every time a black object approaches the person in Lorina Speder ‘s video, a “No.” With its clear and simple formal language, the two-minute work “No” makes it clear that it is only through active contradiction that fake news is not given a platform.

Vera Leisibach offers a playful solution for dealing with the flood of fake news with “Perception 2.0 Magical Media against Fake News”. Media literacy is an invaluable asset – a gold-plated screen, glasses and headphones protect and sharpen the ability to see the truth.

Merit Fakler shows the video work “It’s not a Perpetuum mobile”: plastic cups and bottles floating in space, which change in neon-lit colors. The words “fake” or “bio” are repeatedly faded into the image space.

The three-minute video work “Stringing You Along” by Emily Wisniewski from 2019 depicts the network of relationships between human development, agriculture and the water cycle.

Stephan Groß is represented with two graphics on solar energy. “Dunkelflaute” “Hellbriser: who brings the light breeze”.

With “Dear Earth”, a two-part photograph and an installation, Šarūnė Kalininaitė creates a conversation with the earth.

Norbert Hillwig ‘s sculptural work “WALD STATT ASPHALT. Denkmal für die Rettung des Steineichenwaldes” from 2025 deals with Porsche’s attempt to clear 200 hectares of holm oak forest in Apulia.

In her painting “Future is Now”, Nora Zang abolishes fake news.

Anna Staffel’sperformance “FAKTEN ATTRAKTOR – chaotic approach to reality or what Mandelbrot would have thought” uses her own voice and objects, which she develops with randomly chosen things and texts from the moment of performance.

Tom Albrecht invites the audience to a happy fake news party, collects fake news from the audience and writes it down for all to see. After the audience has assessed the strength and quality of the individual pieces of fake news, a winner is chosen.