This collaboration between HOGRE and Rocco and His Brothers invites the viewer to critically reflect on the influence of public advertising, and to contemplate what could potentially be gained by reclaiming urban spaces. The work was first shown at an exhibition at Kunstraum Kreuzberg in 2022.

Werbepause (Commercial Break) is a collage of billboard posters gathered from various advertising spaces in and around Berlin; it exhibits a clear reference to TV test patterns. These relics from the analog television era can be seen as a symbol for the emptiness and repetitiveness of mass media and consumer culture. By placing the poster fragments within the test pattern of a dead channel, the artists create a subversive disruption.

On loan courtesy of the artist.