Help Autistic Artist paint 40 portraits of autistic victims!

40 Ölgemälde. Ein schlagendes Glasherz. Eine Performance aus Stille — und Wiedergeburt.

Dieses Denkmal entsteht nur, wenn du mir hilfst, sie ins Licht zu tragen.

Schon 5 € können den Unterschied machen. (Volle deutsche Version hier)

Forty oil portraits. A beating glass heart. A silent performance that erupts into new life and memory.

Doch, immer noch! is a living memorial to the autistic victims of Nazi Aktion T4—people erased 80 years ago and still forgotten today.

In a world where we still overlook the disabled, this project insists: they were here. They mattered. They still do.

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Who I Am :

I’m Bogdan, an autistic artist and mathematician based in Berlin. As someone who lives with autism every day, I carry their story in my bones. This is personal.

An ARD documentary crew is already following the process, but public arts funding won’t arrive until July. Until then, I’m working full-time—without support or a studio budget.

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With Your Help, I Will:

• Paint 40 large-format oil portraits from fragile archival images of real victims

• ❤️‍ Cast a pulsing glass heart to honor lives lost and still overlooked

• ️ Stage a ritual performance to break the silence and restore presence

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Why This Project and Why Now?

• Because remembrance can’t wait. If we don’t act now, the momentum—and memory—may be lost.

• In Germany, 79% of autistic adults are long-term unemployed, compared to 35% of the general population.

• In the UK, only 30% of working-age autistic people have any paid job—and they earn ~33% less than non-disabled peers.

• 74% of parents say their child’s school place doesn't meet their needs.

• 70% of autistic students say school would improve if teachers better understood autism.

• 34% of autistic adults without intellectual disability have considered suicide; 24% have attempted it!

• In the U.S., Trump’s administration wants to collect centralized data on autistic people—raising fears of eugenic rhetoric and policy!

This all stems from a lack of visibility and unaddressed systemic discrimination.

It starts with one step. One art and cultural project to begin a hard, necessary conversation.

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Where Your Gift Goes

Each contribution helps complete a piece of this sacred work:

• €5 – One brushstroke of memory

• €25 – A voice in the performance

• €100 – The colours for one face

• €500 – One heartbeat in glass

• €10,000 – Dedicate an entire portrait to a victim’s memory

Funds cover paint, canvases, glass casting, studio rent, sound & lighting, and essential living costs while I carry these 40 lives to completion.

Any extra funding allows the memorial to tour and funds a bilingual catalogue to be donated to Holocaust and disability-history centres.

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Let’s Bring Them Back Into the Light — Together

This isn’t just art. It’s resistance. It’s remembrance.

Let’s end the silence. Let’s make them visible again.

Even if you can’t donate, sharing this campaign is a powerful act of remembrance.

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