Max Geller (artist)

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rdf:langString Max Geller is an American performance artist and human rights activist. An outspoken voice on the Jewish left, Geller is an organizer and activist for the BDS movement and Palestinian human rights, and a frequent speaker against Zionism. Despite the disproportionate amount of attention Jews get for speaking out against Israel, Geller has consistently emphasized the need to center Palestinians in the struggle for their own liberation. Geller’s activism often employs non-traditional tactics, drawing on performance art, erudite references and irony to provoke social discomfort without expressing an explicit political agenda. His performance art, on the other hand, frequently relies on methods of activism, blurring any distinction between art and politics. Most famously, Geller is the founder of #renoirsucksatpainting, a tongue-in-cheek social movement to remove the paintings of Auguste Renoir from museums around the world. He has frequently leveraged the Renoir Sucks at Painting project into media coverage for the BDS movement and other social causes.