Art in the Museum
The first exhibition opened with a vernissage, reading and philosophical conversation. A finissage concluded the first cycle in March 2020.
Formats
Anthropology
Formats
The project was experienced in various places and in various forms: as an exhibition, lecture, reading, conversation, walk and offering for children. Images, texts and the didactics of playful learning in flow remained the common core.
2019–2023
Exhibitions
The exhibitions formed the spatial centre of the project. The twelve image‑text works invited participants to take time, follow a thought and continue thinking at their own pace.
Art in the Choir
The works were displayed over several summers in the open choir space of the church ruin. The special place between landscape, history and sky became a resonance space for images, questions and conversations.
Art in the Seminar Room
At Schloss Meßkirch, the twelve themes were linked with a companion programme of conversations, lecture and offerings for children and young people. The concluding lecture already led to the subsequent project on happiness.
Uncovering the connection
Lectures
Lectures opened a focused access to the question “What is a human?”. They linked the philosophical systematics with the images and places of the project.
Domnick Collection
A lecture on Philosophical Anthropology in the Domnick Collection.
Exhibition closing in Meßkirch
The closing of the exhibition combined a review and lecture. It also served as a transition to the subsequent project on happiness.
Listening to texts, seeing images, engaging in conversation
Author readings and book presentations
Presentation of the e‑Book
The first presentation of the e‑Book combined read chapters, conversation and a glass of sparkling wine with guitar music by Martin Schäfer, guitar and electric guitar teacher at the Tuttlingen Music School.
Anthropology on the Upper Danube
The reading took place in the former private house and in the collection of the Domnick couple. The house, artworks and atmosphere became part of a focused evening.
Walk through the philosopher’s garden
In the Nikolaus Chapel, the images for the individual chapters were passed around and held up in the space. Thus a shared movement of seeing and hearing emerged between text, image and the special place.
Own questions at the centre
Conversations and the Long Night of Philosophy
In the conversations the material was explained and linked with the participants’ experiences. This produced own questions and differing perspectives.
Philosophical conversation
A conversation on Philosophical Anthropology as an immediate entry into the twelve themes.
Long Night of Philosophy
The Long Night linked exhibition, reading and collective philosophising. It created time for questions that often remain unanswered in a short lecture.
Philosophy in one’s own life world
Philosophising with children and young people
The system, images and materials remain unchanged; language and questions are instead tailored to the life world of young people. Instead of asking abstractly about what matters most, the question could be: “What do you do first when you come home from school?” Thus, in a playful atmosphere, space is created for personal thinking.
Thinking in motion
Philosophical walk
During the guided walk through the philosopher’s garden, the system was experienced directly at its places. At viewpoints, along paths and in shared conversation, image, text, movement and nature experience came together.
Also accessible regardless of place and time
Digital formats
During the Corona lockdown an online exhibition was created. Additionally, the YouTube lecture Anthropology in Overview opens up the fundamental systematics of the project. These formats complement the in‑person encounters and provide an initial access even from afar.