I am everything at once

The question of our identity cannot be overestimated in terms of its significance. The topic remains relevant throughout our lives and is always fascinating. The urge to express ourselves is a central drive in our culture, and the opportunities to do so have never been as pronounced as they are today. Contemporary views of the self are based on groundbreaking insights of modernism, and Egon Schiele took this step most consistently. His statement, “I am everything at once,” forms a completely new basis for self-expression, with the view behind the façade of the human being becoming the central message and having a lasting influence on modern and contemporary art.

Thanks to the dynamic exhibition concept, visitors are constantly presented with new perspectives on an exhibition that is in a state of constant flux. As an “exhibition within an exhibition,” Elisabeth von Samsonow's “The Parents' Bedroom Show” presents the parental bedroom as the focal point of various narrative strands. Their self-representation is reflected in the act of procreation in the “primal scene” and combines historical, cultural, personal, and media perspectives.

Works by Egon Schiele, Oskar Kokoschka, Richard Gerstl, Irene Andessner, Renate Bertlmann, Adolf Frohner, Gelatin, Gottfried Helnwein, Birgit Jürgensen, Elke Krystufek, Hermann Nitsch, Arnulf Rainer, Oswald Tschirtner, August Walla, Elisabeth von Samsonow, Bob Wilson, and many others are presented.