Silke Wagner always places social, societal, and ecological themes at the center of her work. She made (and personified) history with her contribution to the 2007 Skulptur-Projekte, which is entitled Münster’s History from Below, and features a statue of Paul Wulf. The anarchist Wulf — who was raised in a children’s home and labeled mentally…

This monumental wall mosaic was created as part of Emscherkunst.2010. It depicts the long history of the miners’ protests in the Ruhrgebiet: starting with the first major miners’ strike in 1889 and ending with the government decision to phase out mining subsidies in 2007. Up until 1958, it shows the miners’ struggle for better work…