Poster Campaign: You Are The One by Oliver Otto Rednitz | all over Moabit and Wedding

The neighborhoods of Wedding and Moabit are flooded with posters from the MOWE Festival’s HELDENREISE and GIPFELTREFFEN series, with the YOU ARE THE ONE variations standing out in particular. Iconography of Berlin’s cityscape takes over the neighborhood. Since the cityscape has become a political battleground—a symbol of order, exclusion, or conformity—the posters pose the counter-question: Who owns the city? Who is allowed to be visible?
The poster campaign transforms the city’s surface into a field of negotiation—between visibility and repression, power and empathy, fear and love. The posters raise their voices for a different cityscape that does not fear diversity, but celebrates it. The poster series do not view the city as a backdrop, but as a venue for social issues. They challenge the idea of a “tidy” cityscape and instead assert the right to disorder, contradiction, and visibility. The posters do not intervene to impose order, but open spaces for dialogue—as social sculpture in the spirit of a democratic city that tolerates difference and allows for transformation.

 

About the Artist

Rednitz’s art is political, poetic, and public all at once. His works combine clear social messages with a powerful visual language—mostly through the medium of poster art and interactive installations in public spaces. His work navigates the tension between street art, social sculpture, and a post-capitalist critical stance. From this emerge his iconic poster series—HELDENREISE and GIPFELTREFFEN—which bring love, compassion, and oneness into the discussion.
His PAPERWORX employ the language of deconstruction, collage, and décollage—acts of cutting, tearing, and reassembling—to create meta-images that invite reflection and critical dialogue.