Fabian Knecht’s works are anti-authoritarian incisions into the World. Progressive and nonconformist, they engage with an increasingly small world determined by rules and pre-existing structures. In doing so, they disrupt patterns of behavior and perception, attack artistic concepts and power structures, and interrogate social relations and norms through powerful counter-images. Knecht is interested in a direct and unmediated experience of art as it cuts across the everyday and rejects the romanticization of the world. His pieces are often so direct and striking that they cannot even be recognized as artworks. Intuitive, provocative, and existential, Knecht’s oeuvre ascribes to art an essential liberating social function. His media-spanning works encompass action, performance, installation, and photography.

"Unverǎnderung" (Unchange) consists of 197 handmade, manipulated and enumerated thermometers, the analogue scales of which show the temperature measured reduced by 2° Celsius, and one normal thermometer. The (un)change refers to the disputed goal decided upon by the UN Climate Conference in 2010 to limit the increase of the global average temperature to 2° Celsius. Current data suggest that the target can hardly be achieved without major intervention and that the 2° limit has already been briefly exceeded in the northern hemisphere, as was reported in March 1, 2016. Just how problematic and politically far-reaching the interpretation of the temperature changes can be was shown by, among other things, the most recent Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which warned of increased dryness and drought that could be placed in a context with famine and refugee migrations, as well as with violence and civil wars. Whether 2° has been calculated too high or too low is therefore being discussed controversially. The proponents and opponents of the goal accuse each other of lying.