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The students collect at the entrance to The Desire for Freedom at 10 a.m. Theatre director Thorsten Schlenger, standing at the front, doesn’t wait long with his questions: ‘What does freedom actually mean? What about desire?’ 

Last week we introduced our online exhibition catalogue (which brought in several interesting comments: Dear Mr. Müller, we will report on how things have been going); this week we present the exhibition poster, specifically its imagery.

What kind of gloves are seen on the poster? 

After our last Tuesday Question explained why there are only 113 artists in our exhibition, but 180 in the catalogue, this Tuesday Question also has to do with the catalogue. Since in addition to our traditional printed catalogue we also have an online version.

But why an online version, and what is it? 

‘Overloaded.’ criticised some reviewers. ‘Too many works.’ wrote others. But not one had found it ‘Too empty.’

This edition of our Tuesday Question has to do with quantity. And we posed it to our curator, Monika Flacke: 

The Jewish graphic artist Leo Glückselig emigrated with his family from Vienna to New York in 1938. Almost sixty years later, he saw a photograph of a work by the French artist Christian Boltanski in a newspaper article about an art exhibition. And was immediately taken aback by what he saw.