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PITCH INVADERS


Site-specific video installation, presented at 3-minute intervals, STÖER Giant Screen, Karlsplatz (Stachus) Metro Station, 30’’
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Multichannel video installation, 10 Led screens, HD, colour, sound, loop, 14’20’’
2026


Comissioned for PUBLIC ART MUNICH FOCUS YEAR
by the Cultural Department of Munich

Site-specific video installation

On the 32 m² advertising screen at Stachus Metro Station, a sequence of five 30-second clips interrupts the existing broadcast cycle. The footage, drawn from archival material, is presented in slow motion, adopting the visual logic of replay technologies used in football broadcasts. It focuses exclusively on politically motivated pitch invasions. By isolating and enlarging these moments, the work reframes pitch invasions as acts of protest rather than disruptions, shifting their status from marginal, suppressed incidents to visible forms of political action. These interventions articulate demands including the release of political prisoners, an end to illegal detentions at political rallies, calls to end fossil fuel extraction, as well as climate justice, the freedom of Iranian women, the freedom of Palestine, and support for LGBTQI+ rights.


Multichannel video installation

A ten-screen installation, arranged like a football broadcast control room, presents archival footage from FIFA and Bundesliga, ordered chronologically by match year. It moves from analogue footage, when unused material was rarely archived, to digital recordings. The footage is distributed across corresponding camera feeds, showing players, coaches, multiple camera angles, and the live broadcast, which appears at the center of the installation. A red frame functions as a live camera-selection indicator, guiding the viewer’s eye to follow the invader at the moment the action becomes most visible. This multichannel “eye machine” reveals how pitch invaders are systematically kept out of view: the gaze attempts to capture them, yet repeatedly misses them.


Public Talk: On Football and Activism
11.6.2026, 16:00
Artothek Pavilion, Burgstraße 4

in conversation with Maike Mia Höhne (filmmaker, curator, producer, professor, and Artistic Director of the Hamburg Short Film Festival) and Julia Fuhr Mann (queer-feminist filmmaker)


Credits

Archival footage ©FIFA and ©BUNDESLIGA
Edited by Dimitra Kondylatou
Sound desging by Thalia Ioannidou
Consulted editing by Sigrid Lelievre
Research by Alex Dimitriou
Installation by Aris One Event Technology


Special thanks to :
Candice Breitz, Jacqui Davies, Gürsoy Doğtaş, Daphne Dragona, Europa Frohwein, Alkis Hadjiandreou, Sylvia Sachini, Poka Yo

Links

Pitch Invaders_Public Art Munich
e-flux