Ron Mueck

Robert Rosenblum (1927-2006) was an art historian, professor, and curator. A specialist in French art of the 18th and 19th centuries, he published and contributed to numerous publications. From 1996 until his death in 2006, he was Curator of Twentieth-Century Art at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, where he organized major exhibitions such as 1900: Art at the Crossroads in 2000 or the first retrospective devoted to Norman Rockwell in an American institution in 2001.

Peter Sloterdijk was rector and professor of philosophy and media theory at Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design from 1992 to 2015. He was director of the Institute for Cultural Philosophy at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna from 1989 to 2008. Exploding the confines of academic philosophy, his approach relies on constant contact with the real world, opened to all areas, from contemporary art to anthropology, from music to psychoanalysis, from politics to religion. Peter Sloterdijk is the author of many books and essays, including “Rules for the Human Park” and “The Domestication of Human Beings” (in J. Koltan [ed.], Solidarity and the Crisis of Trust, Gdánsk: European Solidarity Centre, 2016, pp. 79–93), and Making the Heavens Speak (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2022). His first essay, Kritik der zynischen Vernunft (Critique of Cynical Reason), published in 1983, is the best-selling German-language philosophy book of the 20th century; it has been translated into 32 languages.

Peter Sloterdijk was rector and professor of philosophy and media theory at Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design from 1992 to 2015. He was director of the Institute for Cultural Philosophy at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna from 1989 to 2008. Exploding the confines of academic philosophy, his approach relies on constant contact with the real world, opened to all areas, from contemporary art