Forty oil portraits.

Each 100 × 80 cm.

Each one painted to return a face to someone history erased.

Doch, immer noch! (“Still. Even now.”) : 40 Portaits against the Silence - is a memorial painting project dedicated to autistic people murdered under the Nazi Aktion T4 programme — individuals who were systematically removed from public view and never properly remembered.

This project does not use abstraction or symbolism.

It works face to face.

Each painting is based on fragile archival photographs and institutional records of real victims — traces that survived, even when the people did not.

What This Project Is

I am creating 40 large-format oil portraits (100 × 80 cm), each treated as a standalone act of remembrance.

These paintings are slow, careful works.

They are not illustrations of history, but acts of presence — giving time, attention, and dignity back to people who were reduced to files, diagnoses, and silence.

Together, the 40 portraits form a visual memorial that insists:

they were here, and they mattered.

Why This Matters

Disabled people were among the first to be excluded, institutionalised, and murdered under Nazism. Their stories are still underrepresented in public remembrance.

Even today, autistic people are often spoken about, rather than listened to — misunderstood, marginalised, and overlooked.

This project doesn’t make arguments or comparisons.

It does something simpler and harder: it asks viewers to look at our shared humanity.

Who I Am

My name is Bogdan. I am an autistic artist based in Berlin.

My practice focuses on presence, light, and remembrance — on making absence visible again through careful, disciplined work.

This memorial is personal, but it is not private. It is meant to be seen, shared, and carried forward.

You can see more of my work and practice here:

https://authistical.art

What Your Support Funds

Each contribution goes directly into making the portraits possible:

40 stretched canvases (100 × 80 cm)

Professional and archival oil paints, grounds, and varnishes

Studio costs and documentation

Preparation for exhibition and future public presentation

Basic living costs while the series is completed

Any funding beyond the minimum allows the work to be properly finished, documented, and prepared for institutional display.

Contribution Levels

€10–€25 — Materials for a working session

€50–€100 — Paint and ground for a section of a portrait

€250 — A significant material share of one painting

€500–€1,000 — Canvas and core materials for one portrait

€5,000+ — Major support enabling multiple works and exhibition readiness

Every amount helps. This project is built cumulatively.

Closing

This campaign is not about charity.

It is about remembrance.

If you contribute, you help bring one face back into view.

If you can’t, sharing this page still matters — it places these lives back into public attention.

Doch, immer noch.

Still. Even now.