Over the installation’s five spaces, Boddeke and Greenaway use their characteristically immersive, opulent, and multimedia-inflected visual languages to comment on Kant’s demand that we use reason to guide our actions. The Einstein Forum invites the public to think about Kant’s most important philosophical ideas amid artistic impressions of light, sound, and movement.

The installation’s lavishly conceived spaces wrestle with universal ideals described by Kant and other thinkers of the Enlightenment. Foremost among them are
freedom and human dignity, which underpin the fundamental values of open democratic societies – values that need to be reinforced more than ever today.
Visitors will begin their walk with Kant in the philosopher’s study, during the Age of Enlightenment. They then embark on a journey through the old hierarchies of
Church and Monarchy, whose dogmatism and absolute control Kant’s philosophy helped topple. Next visitors encounter the wind and weather of change followed
by the four horsemen of the apocalypse, who continue to drive fear into even atheist hearts. The final space is devoted to hope. Can we find it in a ravaged
world?

Place: Orangery, Neuer Garten, Potsdam
Runtime: August 24 to September 25, 2024, Mon–Sun 11:00 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Admission: €8.50 for adults,
€6.00 for seniors, students, and minors
Vernissage: August 23, 2024, 6:00 p.m.
Finissage: September 25, 24, 6:00 p.m.
Press preview: August 21, 2024, 11:00 p.m.