{"id":2444,"date":"2026-03-10T16:34:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T16:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unionitaet.de\/?p=2444"},"modified":"2026-03-10T16:45:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T16:45:16","slug":"for-those-who-know-that-life-has-its-own-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unionitaet.de\/en\/arte-povera\/fuer-die-die-wissen-dass-das-leben-eigene-plaene-hat\/","title":{"rendered":"For those who know that life has its own plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">High up on the facade behind the Union site, there's a statement that you can't miss: \u201eTHIS IS SO NOT WHAT I WANTED\u201c.<br><br>In Stefan Marx's characteristic script, the monumental eight-by-ten-meter work captures the eye. The story behind it is as idiosyncratic as the lettering itself: originally, the banner was a public art action with the Hamburger Kunsthalle. Museums have their own rules; the banner was only shown temporarily and then taken down after the action. However, instead of disappearing into a dark archive, the artist and Ardi Goldman reached an agreement. Thus, the work found its way back to where art belongs \u2013 into the public space. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today it hangs on the back of the property, visible to everyone. You can see it from the offices, you can see it from<br>of the street; it has become an unmissable part of daily reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>Stefan Marx, whose works often hover between typography and keen observations of everyday life, has created a monument to independence here. It is a work that could not be musealized and instead chose freedom. A statement for all those who know that a \u201eno\u201c in the right place is often the beginning of something much bigger.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hoch oben an der Fassade hinter dem Union-Gel\u00e4nde prangt ein Statement, das man nicht \u00fcbersehen kann: \u201eTHIS IS SO NOT WHAT I WANTED\u201c. In der f\u00fcr Stefan Marx typischen Schrift zieht das monumentale, \u00fcber acht mal zehn Meter gro\u00dfe Werk die Blicke auf sich. Die Geschichte dahinter ist so eigenwillig wie der Schriftzug selbst: Urspr\u00fcnglich [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2413,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arte-povera"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unionitaet.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unionitaet.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unionitaet.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unionitaet.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unionitaet.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2444"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/unionitaet.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2445,"href":"https:\/\/unionitaet.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444\/revisions\/2445"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unionitaet.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unionitaet.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unionitaet.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unionitaet.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}