Being an Artist is or can be an unthankful, often not even officially recognized profession. Although they entertain and sustain the cultural scene and the livelihood of our cities, they suffer to make a living and are placed at the bottom line of the Art Network.

The paper starts with a short time travel through the art world with focus on London, drawing light on the evolution and developments that have brought the cultural and artistic scene to where it is today. The research specifically enhances the role of the human figure, the ‚everyday artist’, within this urban and artistic discourse. It ends with a potential forecast that incorporates current changes, developments and technologies that impact artistic spaces, the artists as well as the public and the way we experience, perceive, sell, buy, produce and display art.
The aim was to unravel and showcase the potential the artistic practice and especially the human actor, the everyday artists, can have on the urban fabric and the social realm if only incorporated and empowered more in our daily lives.

The insights obtained through the research form the programmatic framework. They allowed to define a new model that reacts to these aspects and eventually built the foundation for the design project.

The following paper will elaborate on the basis of the memorial by Rachel Whiteread in Vienna, Austria and the memorial by Peter Eisenman in Berlin, Germany the meaning and position of memorials within the field of art. It will analyze the interplay between the memorials and their surroundings and the influence they had and still have among society. Furthermore it will respond to the artists personal execution of the topic, naming the Jewish persecution by the Nazi Regime. After all the paper will end by comparing the two memorials in terms of their appearance, meaning and reputation. The Conclusion will summarize and draw a line back to the initial research question - Can a memorial be assigned to the field of art, or can we distinguish a memorial as ‘art to remember’ and assign it to a separate, own field independent of art?