Through the lens of...

With Through the Lens of…, we invite you to experience our exhibitions from the perspective of a wide variety of disciplines and backgrounds. During this event, philosopher Arno Böhler will guide you through our current exhibition She, Who Dwells in the Shadows and, drawing on his work at the intersection of philosophy, performance, and artistic research, will offer his personal perspective on the presented artworks.

The group exhibition She, Who Dwells in the Shadows, curated by Kinnari Saraiya, explores the potentials of the dark and the obscure. It focuses on stories and forms of knowledge that exist outside official archives and are passed down through practices of storytelling, embodiment, and cosmological imagination. Learn more about the exhibition here. The tour will be given in German. Participation is free of charge, no registration required.

Arno Böhler (Univ.Doz.DrDr.habil) teaches philosophy as a faculty member at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Vienna. Currently he is also Principal Investigator of the PEEK research project “Phi­losophy in the Arts: Arts in Philosophy. Cross-Cultural Research on the Significance of the Heart in Artistic Research (AR) and Performance Phi­losophy (PP)”, conducted at ARC-mdw and funded by the Austrian Sci­ence Fund (FWF): Grant-Doi 10.55776/AR822. 

Böhler is co-founder of the philosophy performance festival PhilosophyOn Stage. Together with Susanne Valerie Granzer they have developed new cross-disciplinary strategies between philosophy and the arts to give back to philosophy its materiality, corporeality, sensibility and vulnerability. 

Böhler has been a visiting research fellow at the University of Bangalore, the University of Heidelberg, New York University, and Princeton University, as well as a visiting professor at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, the University of the Arts Bremen (HdK Bremen), the University of Vienna, and the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK Berlin).