Fantastic. Incredible. Aktionpinguin started with Ethan Cohen Gallery from New York during Art Week in Basel an extraordinary water saving project. Each Cigarette Filter poisons 1000 liter of water. So the challenge was: Collect cigarette filters along the river Rhine and in the parks. Bring it to Arthaus.Basel and get for each filter collected 1 Rappen (Cent) as a reward. We were overwhelmed: 55 000 cigarette filters were collected, brought to Arthaus and traded. So this action saved Basel during Art Basel 55 Mit. liter of fresh drinking water. Visitors, people in the streets, at the main station, in the parks, swimmers, walkers, runners turned to become rewarded collectors. With a sustainable positive impact to nature. The success story will be continued. The huge amount of collected filters was at the end of Art Basel on the Art Basel Plaza in the artwork of artist Katharina Grosse. All the love. All the power. Thank you all for helping and supporting Aktion Pinguin to protect water, nature and keep the Art City Basel and beyond clean and life worth all day and night all year round.
