media artist

Welcome Center, Stuttgart [25.10. 2014]

A collaborative photo project by media artist Wolf Nkole Helzle for the opening of the Welcome Center Stuttgart with the participation of all groups and nationalities of the Stuttgart Region.

To make the multinationality and the exemplary integration of citizens of different origins in the city and region Stuttgart vividly, the state capital Stuttgart and the Stuttgart Region Economic Development GmbH have instructed the media artist Wolf Nkole Helzle, to give this lived welcoming culture in the truest sense of the word a "face".

Citizens and with and with non-immigrant background have the opportunity to led their face photographed. After this all portraits are equal overlaid and merged into a common, multinational face.

 

 

 

The project with 1,387 participants from many different countries was very successful. The two images in the format 120 x 120 cm are now an integral part of the counseling center.