This poster by Wolf Vostell was produced in 1983 as part of the portfolio United Artists Against Apartheid, an international initiative bringing together fifteen artists to protest the apartheid regime in South Africa. The project was organised in Paris in collaboration with the United Nations Special Committee against Apartheid and functioned both as a cultural statement and a fundraising effort. 

Vostell’s contribution reflects his long-standing engagement with political themes. Throughout his career, he addressed major global events—from war to mass media and state power—using strategies of fragmentation, layering, and visual disruption. 

The work combines text and image in a direct, confrontational manner. The phrase “Chaque homme est une œuvre d’art”(“Every human being is a work of art”) functions both as a humanist statement and as a critique of the dehumanising structures of apartheid. Produced as an offset lithograph in black and red on Arches paper, the poster retains the immediacy and accessibility characteristic of politically engaged printmaking of the period. 

Rather than operating as an autonomous artwork alone, the piece should be understood within the broader context of collective artistic resistance. Alongside contributions by artists such as Robert Rauschenberg, Roy Lichtenstein, and Antoni Tàpies, Vostell’s poster forms part of a unified visual protest that mobilised art as a tool for international awareness and solidarity