
EUROPEAN VISIONS - Humans behind Europe
The aim of this art project is to perceive Europeans as individuals and to hear voices of different social backgrounds from all Member States. By interviewing people across the 27 EU countries through the EUROPEAN VISIONS questionnaire, the project aims to promote intercultural understanding within the European community. The positions of the people of different backgrounds are seen and heard through a multimedia travelling exhibition.
Take part!
At EUROPEAN VISIONS you are the designer of art, life and society! Contribute with your positive visions to the development of a society that offers hope for a more beautiful Europe!
Every European is asked to take part in the survey! If you also take part as the first representative of your profession➡️ , you can be part of the touring exhibition EUROPEAN VISIONS! You will also receive a hand-signed art print of your work as a thank you. The questions are intense but quickly answered. You don’t have to be an art expert and can participate anonymously.
In the first part of the questionnaire, you design your own painting, which is then put into practice.
In the second part of the survey, you will share your situation as an individual and citizen of your country as well as your wishes regarding personal and social life via video message using a given guide.
With your help, EUROPEAN VISIONS can serve as a bridge to other imaginations. It is for all people who believe in a Europe of coexistence and not of against each other.
To a Europe where racism, discrimination and exclusion have no chance!
References

Andrea Cochius and Robert Menasse (Germany, 2018)
A traveling exhibition across Europe unites our society about their visions and their individual sense of beauty – created by people from different social backgrounds from all EU member states!
Stations of the traveling exhibition will be cities and municipalities – national and European – and the European Parliament in Brussels.
Award-winning author Robert Menasse also supports the project. He wrote the European novel “The Capital” and was awarded the German Book Prize.
EUROPEAN VISIONS received the KWW grant from the Künstlerdorf Schöppingen Foundation.
All EU citizens are invited to participate!
Andrea Cochius (Artist and initiator)
Andrea Cochius is a trained stone sculptor, a project manager, a studied artist and a trained teacher in the subjects art and German.
Her artistic work covers a wide range and has already taken her to the remotest parts of the earth. So she collected on the streets of India life stories of chance encounters, which she gave a face on the sketchbook (“Bio-graphical Short Stories”). Her work as an art and culture blogger brought her an official invitation to the Frankfurt Book Fair.
Her paintings and drawings have been exhibited many times, including in Berlin, Miami and Basel; her illustrations are published in poetry books.
Furthermore, Andrea Cochius is involved in the association “Arbeit an Europa” and supports the work of the Europe-Engaged u. a. as a video documentary.
Andrea Cochius is a member of the GEDOK (Gemeinschaft der Künstlerinnen und Kunstförderer) and the BBK (Bund Bildender Künstler).
The European integration in numbers
Questions and answers
Thanks for your interest. Contact us by mail at acochius@gmail.com and we are happy to talk about times, extent, duration and other details.
Thanks for your interest. We are already working on a “European Visions” school kit. Leave a note to acochius@gmail.com and we will let you know when it is ready.
Thanks for your interest. For interviews, background information and pictures please contact acochius@gmail.com.