On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Franz Kafka's death, the VILLA STUCK museum highlights the writer's limitless relevance in a large-scale exhibition with contemporary artists.
“Like a dog!” he said, it was as if the shame should outlive him. Franz Kafka ends his novel “The Trial” with this sentence and names a central theme in his work: shame. They and many other themes associated with Kafka's work have actually outlived the writer and achieved universal and everlasting independence as "Kafkaesque". Where there is fear, despair, eerie and claustrophobic conditions, bureaucratic constraints and abuse of power, a mental bridge to Kafka is often built. Many artists who are at the center of the exhibition received important inspiration from this.