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In 1969 Josef Beuys made the installation "Das Rudel" ("The Pack") a composition symbolising a "survival kit" for extreme situations: a sled, felt, fat and a light source are enough to escape the cold and not to die in the frost. But what kind of survival kit would offer artists today in conditions of global warming, pandemic and big games?

Center for Reproductive Labor creates the popular education and resource platform on reproductive labor. Using texts and illustrations in an accessible Q&A style on Instagram, we look into reproductive labor from the perspectives of migration, the struggle of domestic workers, socialist feminism, colonialism, and capitalism.

‘Summer School of Unlearning’ is a workshop about unlearning. Unlearning is questioning how we learn and what we learn. Unlearning is to resist the atrocities of systemic oppression, violence formalized in bureaucracies of knowledge production.

​The EURASIA program is a critical continuation of Joseph Beuys' concept of Eurasia, planning a network that connects artists and artisans from central Asia. Beuys incorporated the traditional motifs of Eurasian culture into his own work and performances, creating a vision of reconciliation between East and West.