WITTGENSTEIN 2019

17.10.2019 - 11.11.2019

Austrian Embassy Sofia, Sofiya / Bulgaria (co(-)operation partner)
Rafael Mihailov Exhibition Halls, Veliko Tarnovo / Bulgaria (venue)
Schleifmühlgasse 12-14, Wien / Österreich

2019 Second stop VELIKO TARNOVO /Bulgaria

The curatorial and artistic approach of this exhibition is manifold. It is neither interpretive nor descriptive, but rather we have set ourselves the goal of illuminating ideas, writings, approaches of Ludwig Wittgenstein from today‘s point of view and to encourage discussions. Adapting, transforming and using contemporary art as a vehicle for discourse.WITTGENSTEIN – The exhibition is the interpretation and transformation of ideas, thoughts, visions. In any case, the goal is to return to the themes that make up Wittgenstein‘s philosophy to discuss his point of view and to connect his thesis with the 21st century....
We started 2018 in House Wittgenstein Vienna, the Cultural Forum of Bulgaria, planed by Paul Engelmann and Ludwig Wittgenstein on behalf of his sister Margarethe Stonborough-Wittgenstein. The Bulgarian government under the Minister of Culture Lydmila Zhivkova acquired the “Haus Wittgenstein” in 1975 and decided to transform the unique Palais into a notable cultural institute. Therefor it is obvious that our second stop through Europe is Bulgaria, Veliko Tarnovo, the former capital and city of one of the Universities of Fine Arts.
WITTGENSTEIN proposes a combination of new media art works, interventions and performances, installations and new genre works that mirror Wittgenstein ´s skills as a philosopher, architect, designer, lover of fine arts and aural experiences.The curatorial approach is also breaking boundaries in its thinking and geographical nature as well as limits of the genres of the visual arts. Let’s think about what can not be imagined, let us dangle utopia in front of visions and reach for the stars. Parallel to Wittgenstein‘s allround genius, which ranged from architecture, art, music up to philosophy.With the display of the exhibition I am following the associative concept of the art works as I combine it with the artistic, linguistic, literary, philosophical and religious point of view of Wittgenstein’s writings.
Text Denise Parizek, Curator, 2019

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