The Helena Cup is a translation of the Troyan War into football language, using illustrations from the football field.

Decisive match between Troy and Greece (approx. 1250 Before Christ, BC) based on Gustav Schwab's renarration of Homer's "Ilias".

The work consists of:

- Manual.

11 x 27,8 x 2cm, Collage

- Game set (Steel, leather, lacquer, magnets)

- 2 Lambda-Prints (Dibond), each 92 x 78cm.

with images and texts from the manual

--> line-up and first half

--> second half and prolongation

Installation views :

"Copycats," Künstlerhaus Dortmund (D), 2007

"3xf-Fußball - Frauen - Fotografie," ARD-Hauptstadtstudio Berlin (D), 2006

Line-up
Troy (red)
Goalkeeper: 1. Aeneas
Defense: 2. Pandaros, 3. Sarpedon, 4. Eurydamas, 5. Polydamas, 12. Priamos (captain), 13. Rhesos, 14. Helenos
Midfield: 6. Paris, 7. Chryses, 8. Agenor, 9. Deiphobos, 11. Glaukos, 18. Coon
Forwars: 10. Hector, 15. Penthesilea, 16. Memnon, 17. Eurypylos
Coach: Phoebus Apollo
Assistant Coaches: Ares, Artemis, Leto, Scamander
Manager: Aphrodite

Greece (blue)
Goalkeeper: 1. the Telamonian Ajax
Defense: 2. Ajax the Locrian, 3. Palamedes, 4. Teucer, 5. Nestor, 12. Calchas, 13. Patroclus, 15. Neoptolemos
Midfielders: 6. Menelaos, 7. Agamemnon (captain), 8. Idomeneus, 10. Odysseus, 16. Eurypylos
Forwards: 9. Achilles, 11. Diomedes, 14. Philoctetes
Coach: Pallas Athene
Assistant Coaches: Poseidon, Hermes, Hephaistos
Manager: Hera

Referees: Zeus
2nd referees: Clotho (Klotho), Lachesis, Atropos