27.10.2023_Editorial_HR97

For his current exhibition „Know Thyself,“ Ai Weiwei has reconstructed well-known works of art history out of Lego bricks and placed them in irritatingly different contexts. In an interview with Fabian Peltsch, the world-renowned conceptual artist, as usual, is not sparing with his criticism – be it of Berlin or of the political systems of the West. And he explains why Cancel Culture can be harmful – namely when we misjudge our actual circumstances because of political correctness.