With the title of his artwork "The Right to be Lazy", artist John Knight quotes Paul Lafargue's 1880 manifesto of the same name. Knight's Right to be Lazy is a flower circle with wild plants in front of the entrance to the Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart. The former director acquired the installation in 2008, whereupon the museum received numerous letters of complaint: Why would this wasteland be allowed, couldn't they afford a gardener to do something here instead of being so inactive? 4 Years later, the flower roundel, and with it the endlessness work of inactivity, became the setting for an installation as part of the exhibition by another artist - who erected a tent. Based on this “lazy” work by John Knight and its evolution in the years since its installation, my talk aims to show that philosophy, politics and ecology can be experienced differently through art. The task of art is therefore never per se critical and enlightening, i.e. political. Rather, the many different constellations provide an opportunity to confront and pursue the uncertainties of the world within the framework of aesthetic inactivity.