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After five very different editions of the foundation’s publication implizit, the Software AG Foundation has opted for a new visual approach in 2023. The magazine entitled “Die Kunst in uns” (The Art in Us) resembles a landscape-format sketchbook containing articles on artistic therapies, aesthetic education and cultural participation, as well as a variety of initiatives to discover one’s own creative resources. These include writing prompts by the author Silke Heimes (Darmstadt, Germany) as well as suggestions from representatives of a wide variety of art forms and inspiring illustrations by students from Alanus University, who contributed to the editorial and visual design of “implizit 6”.

Like its predecessors, the magazine’s latest issue is characterised by what the editors call an implicit quality, which gives the publication series its name: shining a light on initiatives and topics that are rarely the focus of public interest or cannot be understood on a purely intellectual level and only indirectly have something to do with the foundation.

“With this year’s focus, this connection is not exactly obvious,” explains Peter Augustin, as SAGST is promoting everything but art with projects in the fields of medicine, agriculture and nature, education and training, care for elderly and disabled people, as well as work with children and youth. And yet, according to this member of the SAGST Executive Board, art is directly connected to the foundation as well as to its commitment to people and society. Augustin continues: “Because art not only acts as a healing force in many of the projects we fund, but it can also release creative forces, shedding new light on the connection between the spirit within human beings and the world. That is because creative works call on us to engage with them.” That is precisely what the 130-page publication aims to do, which, alongside a report on the Atelier Goldstein studio in Frankfurt, an article on a special kind of cultural landscape and an interview with Johannes Stüttgen (a student of Beuys), offers readers space for self-experience time and again – completely in the spirit of Friedrich von Schiller, who stated: “Man is only fully human when he plays”.