Don’t miss: CHRISTOPH SCHLINGENSIEF: It Is No Longer My Problem!

With the exhibition It Is No Longer My Problem!, the MAK – Museum of Applied Arts Vienna, the Vienna Festival Weeks | Free Republic of Vienna, and the Gropius Bau Berlin / Berlin Festival invite audiences to reflect on Christoph Schlingensief and on an artistic practice whose impact continues to resonate today. His thinking is not a closed body of work, but an open movement: an attempt to understand art not as representation, but as a direct form of coexistence.

The Opera Village emerged from this idea—that art, everyday life, education, and social responsibility are inseparably linked. Schlingensief himself was never searching for safe spaces. He was searching for spaces of encounter, friction, and vulnerability—spaces in which contradictions are allowed to become visible and new forms of community can emerge. Many of these questions remain alive in the Opera Village to this day.

This is precisely why the exhibition is worth seeing today: not as nostalgic remembrance, but because Schlingensief’s work confronts us with an urgency that feels more relevant than ever. His art insists on the necessity of enduring uncertainty, exposing social boundaries, and refusing to outsource responsibility to systems or institutions. In a time of political and social hardening, the exhibition opens a space to rethink community, fear, solidarity, and the role of art. So don’t miss:

It Is No Longer My Problem!

13.5.2026—13.9.2026

MAK, Stubenring 5, Vienna

1010 Vienna, AT

Beitragsbild: © MAK – Museum of Applied Arts Vienna – Screenshot of the website (https://www.mak.at/programm/ausstellungen/christoph_schlingensief), accessed 11.05.2026.