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The group exhibition There Must Be Some Kind Of Way Outta Here examines the desire to escape from social realities and takes place simultaneously in both our Berlin and Vienna galleries.

The title of the exhibition comes from a song written by Bob Dylan in 1967, which became a cult hit with Jimi Hendrix鈥檚 version. With a mixture of pleading and defiance, it evokes the search for a way out of a seemingly hopeless situation, for a door or window out of despair, darkness, and distress.

It has been claimed that art is such a door or window. With this in mind, the exhibition takes up the Dylan/Hendrix song and focuses on escape strategies of artists from recent art history. These approaches can range from escapism, excess, politicization, and flight from the world to denial and inner emigration.

In times of global crises, such as a pandemic, climate change, displacement, hunger, poverty, inequality, war, and de-democratization, the expectations for artistic responses are becoming ever greater and at the same time increasingly difficult to fulfill.

The exhibition therefore deliberately shows historical positions that are considered precursors and important trailblazers, as well as works by younger artists from today who are confronted with the question of exit strategies from a seemingly completely confused and unmanageable situation.