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Cora worked with the ‘Desire for Freedom’ project for six weeks as an intern. She was even able to squeeze in a bit of time between enquiring about image rights for our catalogue, obtaining photo material, proofreading, and checking colour proofs to give us her impressions. 

The Desire for Freedom. Art in Europe since 1945 reopened to the public in Milan's Palazzo Reale three weeks ago. The opening speeches have been held. The newspapers have published their first reviews. Now it’s time to take a step back. Sticking to the subject of exhibition terminology, we would like to ask: How did the exhibition idea—‘the world in our heads’—become a model and then an exhibition? Why should a painting not hang next to a photograph? And how tall is our ‘optimal visitor’?

The exhibition designer Werner Schulte answered these questions for us. 

Before we begin listing everyone involved with the exhibition, we want to assure you that it is a lot of people. Most of their activities remain unseen by the exhibition visitor. These ‘invisible’ staff members get the chance here to explain what they do, who they are, and what they think about The Desire for Freedom. Art in Europe since 1945. The ‘visible’, too, by the way.

If we don’t ask a certain question of particular interest to you, please write us and we will look into it.