Mikołaj Sobczak: Anti-Fascist Art Manifesto

Artist Mikołaj Sobczak will present a performance of his essayistic work*Anti-Fascist Art Manifesto*, which will also be released as a newly published book. Sobczak’s intricate and personal*Manifesto*articulates an understanding of fascism as a recurring reaction to the unresolved tensions of modernity. The artist proposes history as rhyme, rather than repetition: from the Nazis’ appropriation of archetypal imagery and industrial rationality to contemporary forms of techno-feudalism dominated by global corporations, similar patterns of control, exclusion, and myth-making re-emerge under new conditions. These macro-structures are inseparable from embodied experience, especially where sexuality, shame, fear, and masculinity intersect with ideology. Sobczak examines how political power operates through archetypes—deeply rooted images that structure perception and emotion. Fascist and populist systems rely on rigid, binary archetypes that promise clarity, purity, and order, while suppressing ambiguity and contradiction. 

Following the live performance, Mikołaj Sobczak will present his new book and join curator Anke Hoffsten for a discussion on his artistic practice and his ideas on queer sexuality and avant-garde art as forms of anti-fascist resistance.

The event is part of a collaboration between nsdoku and Lothringer 13 Halle within the framework of the exhibition project“Antifascism: Now.” A textual mural by Mikołaj Sobczak is on view at Lothringer 13 through July 31.