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Explore the Instructions for Happiness Contemporary Art Exhibition at Belvedere

Discover how conceptual and interactive installations challenge our ideas about personal wellbeing.

Delve into a unique artistic journey at the Belvedere, where contemporary works serve as active prompts for the viewer. Curated by Olympia Tzortzi and Severin Dünser, this exhibition examines the subjective nature of human wellbeing. Visitors are encouraged to interact directly with thought-provoking installations that find beauty in mundane, everyday life.

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Exhibition summary

This exhibition explored the elusive and individual concept of happiness through a series of artistic interventions. Visitors were invited to engage with artworks that acted as instructions, encouraging direct interaction and reflection on the beauty found in daily life.

Curatorial context

Instructions for Happiness questioned the feasibility of receiving instructions for such a subjective and elusive feeling as happiness. By framing artistic works as active prompts, the exhibition sought to initiate processes of thought and behavior within the viewer, inviting them to react to manufactured situations or interact with objects and other people. By focusing on the exchange between art and society, the exhibition highlighted that happiness is often found in the immediate, the interpersonal, and the mundane. The curators framed the experience as a way to discover beauty in the small things of everyday life, challenging visitors to reconsider their own perceptions of what it means to be happy.

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Venue
Belvedere
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Exhibition schedule
From Jul 8, 2017
Artist line / attribution
Curated by Olympia Tzortzi and Severin Dünser, with direction by Stella Rollig. The exhibition featured various contemporary works, including those by artist Socratis Socratous.
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