This page contains a timeline of the historical development of the non-profit organization PixelHELPER, going back to 2008. It all began with the awarding of the attac prize – Start Your Own Revolution – to Oliver Bienkowski, the founder of PixelHELPER. Since then, hundreds of news platforms worldwide have reported on our projects.
2022
2021
2020
PixelHELPER protest with a hand puppet of the King of Thailand together with Junya Yimprasert from ACT4DEM (Act for Democracy) Finland.
PixelHELPER protest together with Junya Yimprasert from ACT4DEM (Act for Democracy) Finland at the Hotel Sonnenbichl Garmisch Partenkirchen
PixelHELPER protest at the Garmisch-Partenkirchen town hall
The Moroccan newspaper Hespress reports on the Moroccan government's diplomatic expulsion of PixelHELPER, against which we are filing a lawsuit. Apparently, the construction of our Uyghur Holocaust memorial was too much for the government's understanding of art.
Projection of Wikileaks onto Buckingham Palace for Julian Assange
Our campaign "Reforestation instead of landmines" is featured in the Moroccan newspaper Hespress, the largest newspaper in the country.
2019
Over 80 newspapers, plus BBC UK and Arabic, reported on it. Haaretz, Israel
Action against forced labor and historical revisionism at Bahlsen
Light projection at the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin against Bahlsen
Lübeck News: Rescue mission in the Mediterranean
Action against misanthropy by Democracy Lives / VDMO / PixelHELPER
PixelHELPER supports the petition against pesticides
2018
Light projection with Jan Böhmermann onto the Dresden Frauenkirche
Times of Malta, light projection for the deceased journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia
IMP News: Together with the Kurdish community, we implemented light projections at Bellevue Palace.
A. Gomringer published our projection on his website.
Deutsche Welle Arabic: Light projections for the Mercator Foundation against Islamic racism
Meydan.TV light projection onto the embassy of Azerbaijan
Spiegel Online: Light projections for the release of Charles Puigdemont
2017
OVB Online: Light projections at the Federal Intelligence Service in Bad Aibling
Berliner Morgenpost: Action against the undemocratic election in Turkey
Bild newspaper: Light projection at Turkish embassy
ntv: Light projection against Turkey's illegal use of the Red Notice
Light projection for the release of Deniz Yücel
Good: Simply make the world a better place
Berliner Zeitung: Protest against Saudi Crown Prince
Light projection police station for Oury Jalloh
Sleaze Magazine: Light projection onto the North Korean embassy
Sputnik: Light projection onto the embassies of Russia and the USA
Tagesspiegel: Light projection on the election in Turkey
2016
Independent UK: Light projection on Turkish embassy
Sputnik: 9/11 Bank lights up Saudi Arabian embassy
Deutsche Welle: Light projection onto the Saudi embassy
Kreul Colors: Artist profile of Oliver Bienkowski by PixelHELPER
Franceinfo + AFP: Light projection Daesh
Hape Kerkeling shares the light projection from PixelHELPER
Tagesspiegel: Daesh Bank at Saudi Embassy
Sputnik: Erdogan with Hitler mustache and crescent moon armband
Sputnik – light projection onto the Turkish embassy
Star: Activists project Erdogan poem onto Turkish embassy
Tagesspiegel, PixelHELPER sleeping boxes for the homeless
2015
Artnet is one of the world's largest art platforms. 
Swiss Broadcasting Corporation: ECB out of service
Light projection in the Neuss Grevenbroich newspaper
Berliner Morgenpost: On the night of his death, we projected images of Helmut Schmidt onto the SPD headquarters. 
Berlin is ours: Lichtprojektion Daesh Bank
Firstlife: Dr. Oetker Tasteless Shops
Kai Thrun: Blogger on livestream crowd help
Courier Austria: Light projection at US Embassy
Märkische Allgemeine on PixelHELPER: Refugees Welcome in Nauen
NRW Now: Manage helpers online and accomplish good things
APA: NSA in da House at Vienna's UN City
Spiegel Online: ECB out of service
TEDx Talk in Marrakech by PixelHELPER Oliver Bienkowski
Environmental News: Light projection against potash salt
Urbanshit: Light projections against Dr. Oetker's arms investments
Report by 37° ZDF about PixelHELPER
Bielefeld News
2014
Now: Light projection onto the US embassy against wiretapping scandal
The Verge: Light projection against the NSA
Go out and prove yourselves: From the collection plate to crowdfunding
2013
Spiegel Online International: Light projection for Kim Dotcom
Founder of PixelHELPER in SPIEGEL
Reuters report on PixelHELPER
Süddeutsche Zeitung, Arts & Culture section: Media hacking for the homeless
2012
Light installations with the Bismarck Foundation on Bismarck Towers
Star: Light installation at Hypo Real Estate 
Extra tip: Rainbow Bridge Kassel
2011
Deutsche Welle on reverse graffiti
Augsburger Allgemeine on Hypo Real Estate
Cooperation with the Ministry for Rural Affairs in Baden-Württemberg
Light installation at the Festival of Lights
2010
Colorful instead of brown, light projections against right-wing extremism
2009
The founder of PixelHELPER International won the "Start Your Own Revolution" award from attac in 2009. Since then, he has set everything in motion, forming a globally active artists' collective ten years later. Their focus is on projects promoting artistic freedom, human rights, and combating antisemitism.
attac: Prizes “Start your own revolution”
HNA Kassel: Coffins for monument protection
2008
Light installation at Pariser Platz towards the Brandenburg Gate
Frankfurter Rundschau: Citizens' initiative on demand
Stone of contention
Book mentions
Otto Kettmann: Limburg 2013 Anatomist of a Scandal
Eric Mülling: Big Data and Digital Disobedience
Monika Mühlpfordt – The slogan as a descendant of the magic spell
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Only those who think differently can change the world.
But our Wrath It's understandable when you consider what we suffered. What did our grandparents Picking tea for the Bigwigs in Ceylon?
What have our Parents on toiled in the cotton fields for the Indians, and the poor Saxons in the Copper and coltan mines near Dresden, just so that the Congolese people own 30 electrical appliances per household to have.
And the Cocoa and Coffee plantations in the PalatinateGenerations of Palatinate residents have made their home here. Health ruined for these disgusting African mega-corporations. And the Somali fishing fleets that have overfished our North Sea, therefore many now had to East Frisian Pirates .
Almost all They shot our elephants., for your Chess pieces and piano keysNow they come with their jeeps and go on safari too, and look around. the last elephants in the Bavarian Forest That's tough.
And back when the Herero invaded Germany, and this genocide against the SwabiansThat has lasting effects. You can't just brush something like that off your clothes. It still hurts after 100 years.You don't recover from that so quickly.
We are standing here up to our knees in corrosive chemicalsso that one Buying jeans in Bangladesh for 7 euros can.
How many of our girls have we lost in the Diamond mines in Bielefeld, so that Bonzen in Sierra Leone being able to singDiamonds are the Girls best Friend“Now they're coming across the Mediterranean too, and they want even more. live in our gymnasiums.
Yes, what else is there? What else are we supposed to do for her? Eventually, it has to end.Eventually, we just can't take it anymore! Eventually, we simply can't do ANY MORE!
Our Heart is wide, but Our resources are finiteArt as a form of societal self-affirmation in the spirit of the Enlightenment. Our campaigns demonstrate the potential of art as the fifth estate. Art is therefore not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with which to shape it, combat it, and thus gradually enable people to return to a normal life.
