Caritas at the Kunsthistorisches Museum to CELEBRATE LIFE with New Exhibit, 9/28

The project "Celebrate Life!" invited prominent representatives of the cultural and art scene to instigate a dialogue: what remains of us when we die? What is important when faced with the fact that life is but transient, what traces do we leave behind? How do I want to die?

Barbara Coudenhove-Kalergi, Christiane Hörbiger, Karl Markovics, Robert Menasse, Cornelius Obonya, Arnulf Rainer, Barbara Stöckl, Michael Landau and Josef Zotter have all agreed to have a mask taken of their face, and the internationally renowned artists Daniel Knorr, Erik van Lieshout, Teresa Margolles, Arnulf Rainer, Hans Schabus, Hubert Scheibl, Deborah Sengl, Daniel Spoerri, Kader Attia and Nives Widauer have all agreed to work with these masks.

The results of these interventions will be presented in a special exhibition that is part of a collaboration between Caritas and the Kunsthistorisches Museum.

Date/Location: Monday, September 28, 2015 at 10 a.m. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

With: Sabine Haag, Director-General of the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna and the curators of the exhibition Cathérine Hug (Kunsthaus Zurich) and Manuela Laubenberger (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna)