Olaf Metzel chose to install Nicht mit uns (We won't
stand for it), a work as delicate-looking as it is large,
at the top of the imposing open-air steps at the U-Bahn
station Messestadt West. The artist demonstratively
blocked off this monumental stage-like area (around
which barriers are in any case erected in the winter
months) by means of a sculpture that seems as though
it could fall off the edge and topple down the steps
at any minute. He thus responded to the existing situation
by taking it to extremes.
At the moment the sculpture is dismantled and will be
put up again after the finishing of the Willy-Brandt-Platz
in spring 2004.
