Programme
REINIGUNGSGESELLSCHAFT
Germany
CHANGE REALITY. RENAMING THE STREETS OF ZAGREB
urban intervention
8 - 15 September 2006
various locations 
The project of the German group of artists REINIGUNGSGESELLSCHAFT provides a possibility for voluntary initiatives and civil society organisations to create ideas for the new street names and present them in a public space. It is an invitation for the committed citizens to present the age in which they live, but also the future. They are asked to propose street names which define goals and concepts of the organisation and the civil society.
Starting point of the project is the fact that street names have always expressed a specific idea on how history or reality should be viewed upon. 
This becomes evident when we remember how many streets have been renamed in the times of great changes in political systems. The interaction between the new street signs and the old original plates in the streets shall bring attention to the current social events in the city. This renaming creates a sensibility for the synergies and contradictions in the development of a society, so strongly influenced by overlapping of public and private interests.
REINIGUNGSGESELLSCHAFT (whose German implications range from "Cleaning Service" to "Purification Society") is an artistic project group that works at the point of intersection between art and social reality. Martin Keil (1968) and Henrik Mayer (1971) first came together to create RG. It is a group of artists and their associates. RG works with people from different backgrounds, providing platforms for interdisciplinary activities. Our way of working is based on the positive potential of connecting different spheres of society. RG initiates projects that generate new relations between people. Our working mode follows a cognitive concept of art. REINIGUNGSGESELLSCHAFT understands contemporary art as a catalyst of social and political processes.